Tens of Thousands of Homeless Veterans

This is Not a New Issue especially related to War and Long Occupation Theater Veterans but also the many others who've served the Nation! It's one of a Very Very Long Line of Issues Ignored by the country served and especially those they hire to represent them and set the budgets as they quickly rubber stamp costs for the wars they fully support, out of site and hearing about out of mind, when heard about it's easy to blame the agency that's the people's responsibility they don't maintain!

"If military action is worth our troops' blood, it should be worth our treasure, too; not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Can Washington get vets off the streets? Tens of thousands homeless despite billions in spending

Mar 29, 2013 - Despite funding that has reached $5.8 billion annually and a slew of innovative community partnerships, the Obama administration is lagging in its goal to end homelessness among veterans – or, as federal veterans' leaders like to say, “drive to zero” – by the end of 2015.

If the current rate of progress is maintained, roughly 45,000 veterans would still be without homes when the deadline passes -- a big improvement since the drive was launched but also evidence of how difficult it is to eradicate the problem.

"I don’t truly think you can end homelessness,” said John Scott, who heads the Phoenix office of U.S. Vets, a national, nonprofit service provider to homeless and at-risk veterans that receives some federal funding. “Things happen that can precipitate homelessness for anyone, and it can happen quite rapidly. However, we can effect change in veterans who have been chronically homeless.”

Scott, a former Marine Corps sergeant, was a keynote speaker at the November 2009 summit where Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki proclaimed that he and President Obama were "personally committed to ending homelessness among veterans within the next five years.” (The VA now cites the end of 2015 as its target.)

That crusade thus far has housed 12,990 veterans, an average of 361 per month. At the last count, which took place in January 2012 and was released in December, some 62,000 veterans still were homeless, meaning the campaign would need to average about 1,300 per month to meet its mark. read more>>>

"Why in 2009 were we still using paper?" VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers "When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade." 27 March 2013

Trying to now take care of long ignored by those served veterans' issues and also finally build what always and already should have been decades ago, and the wars of those decades, as to the VA, a fully funded, as the wars are more then and those are for profit, peoples responsibility the Veterans Administration and an economy ready and willing to absorb highly trained, innovative and motivated, fitting readily into many private economic concerns, military veterans after their service to in protecting and defending in good or bad policies set forth by those we hire to represent all! Building, even rebuilding, costs much much more, the problems and issues have established and since grown and for Veterans Issues ignored rapidly multiplied then if fully funded in the beginning and maintain, through real and full support not words and symbols, which saves in people's treasury needs later, and gives back to the many communities in many ways.

"We are dealing with veterans, not procedure; with their problems, not ours." General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

As to the present Government Executive Branch, now into it's second four year term:

Military and Vets On FLOTUS and SLOTUS, Administration and it's Cabinet, "Best - Ever": "We haven't had this kind of visibility from the White House—ever." Joyce Raezer - Dec. 30, 2011", Military Spouse, and plenty more of similar since Joyce spoke and also will continue, as will the obstruction as the conservative ideologies, Federal and State representatives, continue seeking to privatize the Veterans Administration, the peoples responsibility to those that serve them!