Exactly. Why is it people continuously attribute normal healthy behaviors to the homeless, especially ‘vets’? Virtually all the homeless in this country are homeless due to unhealthy attitudes and behaviors, and especially mental illness (the real root cause).
Most of them do not want any help, they want cash to continue their drug and alcohol habits, that is all they want. Giving them little homes is ridiculous and they would be considered unlivable due to terrible sanitation within a week.
Putting the ‘Veteran’ modifier on this is manipulative, because that word appeals to many people simply on an emotional basis, and you see it in the replies. Homeless ‘Vets’ need the help more than normal homeless they think, but the root cause of the homelessness is the same, mental illness leading to drug and alcohol abuse. Why can’t they get a job? That’s easy to answer, they don’t want a job, and they can’t hold down a job anyway being drunk, drugged up and disorderly.
This is not a lack of compassion, only that most homeless would be in Sanitariums 60 years ago, that’s how the mentally ill were kept off the street. Now that funny farms are considered inhumane, we have to live with these people in our midst, dangerous psychos who like living in an alley as long as they have some Mad Dog 20/20 to keep them satiated for a couple of hours.
AMEN!