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Besides which. The homeless might be a very visible segment of the poor but they are hardly the biggest. There are at most a few thousand or tens of thousands of homeless in a typical large city. Some like NYC have a couple hundred thousand. Compared to the Millions of unemployed and underemployed ex-middle class Americans the homeless are a drop in the bucket. How does the Republican Party rationalize away those millions?
"Because if I legally hired the homeless guy, I'd have to pay him at least minimum wage, and report his earnings to the IRS, and deduct the withholding taxes and FICA and contribute to the unemployment insurance commission and the workmen's compensation fund, and buy an insurance policy to cover any liabilities of having someone working on my property, and I would have no protection against any harm that could come to me by having an unbonded workman accessing my property, as well as doing a federal ID check on him to assure me that he not an illegal alien. It would be cheaper for me to contract with a lawn-car firm. If I was willing to do all that, so would the lawn-care firm, and the guy would have a job, food, and a home." Welcome to the Republican Party.
This is a silly thread. A lot homeless people are in distress, suicidal, emotional unstable, depress, a lot of them might have a job but can't afford a home, they have too many children to take care of, Etc. Many factors. I don't think they WANT to be homeless.
Who in hell would WANT to be homeless, just for fun?
It's estimated between 1 in 3 to 1 in 4 of all homeless people are veterans. Generally they are male (only 3% female) and single. It's estimated that the Department of Veteran's Affairs really only helps 25% of people. There simply is not a good system for the VA to deal with this massive problem and only RECENTLY have they begun to address it.
Please educate yourself. National Coalition for Homeless Veterans - Background & Statistics (http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm - broken link)
While many if not most of the homeless veterans should qualify for VA disability benefits, few get it for various reasons. Between no permanent address and limited access to VA funded heathcare plus mental problems among the veterans which render them unable to really help themselves through the system, these people are essentially left out of the system.
It's estimated between 1 in 3 to 1 in 4 of all homeless people are veterans. Generally they are male (only 3% female) and single. It's estimated that the Department of Veteran's Affairs really only helps 25% of people. There simply is not a good system for the VA to deal with this massive problem and only RECENTLY have they begun to address it.
Please educate yourself. National Coalition for Homeless Veterans - Background & Statistics (http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm - broken link)
While many if not most of the homeless veterans should qualify for VA disability benefits, few get it for various reasons. Between no permanent address and limited access to VA funded heathcare plus mental problems among the veterans which render them unable to really help themselves through the system, these people are essentially left out of the system.
Lady, I'm a vet and I talk to homeless vets at the VA Hospital, so I don't need to educate myself.
I have seen this question posted before. Please stop stealing other people's questions without proper annotation of the source.
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