62,000?
The pop. of Killeen is only 130K.
We’ll get the “media” right on it.
I can’t speak for Texas, but in the midwest, the only people that are truly “homeless” are ones who choose to be, due to addiction (the shelters won’t allow drugs or alcohol consumption) or mental illness.
It is time foe this homeless guy to move on, to a city that has homeless shelters.
So thumb a ride to Temple and stay there. Or keep going to Waco. I’m sure they have shelters. Why do you have to stay in Killeen?
I never understand why I’m supposed to care that they’re veterans.
WASHINGTON — Despite political discord on Capitol Hill, Obama administration officials and Congress have cut through partisan differences to help veterans returning from wars to homelessness.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced grants totaling $100 million to help almost 42,000 homeless and at-risk veterans in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Texas will see more than $4.1 million of those grants go to community agencies in San Antonio, Houston, Killeen, Fort Worth, Austin and El Paso.
“No man or woman who has served our country should have to worry about having a place to call home,” said Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio.
San Antonio Family Endeavors, Inc., will serve about 1,000 families with a $998,153 grant in a 12-county area. The grant is a renewal, allowing the program of counseling and aid for a second year.
Floor it through the speed trap in Nolanville on 190. (55>30>55).
You’ll get 3 hots and a cot.
At least that’s how it went down in 1975.
This makes no sense. There is a whole lot of nothing off post at Fort Hood. No place to look for a job. But just North on the highway is Waco, and South is Austin, with much better prospects in either.
Call ex-Mayor Ray Nagin (New Orleans). He had plenty of buses for the homeless to live in. Oh, I forgot, so did he.
Call FEMA; They have hundreds of buses and mobile homes for the victims of Sandy.
Oh, I forgot. So did they.
Call Mayor Bloomberg. He’s got the money for everyone. Right?
Call Hollywood liberals. They’ll help. Right?
Nevermind!
I think a large number of “homeless veterans” never served a day. I think a lot of panhandlers use “veteran” as a hook for sympathy.
Especially the young “veterans” that I’ve talked to can’t keep up a believable story for 5 seconds when directly asked about their service.
I think, with ALL due respect to my fellow FReepers, that those of you on this thread miss the point.
This has nothing to do with homelessness; poor veterans. It has nothing to do with caring, wanting to care for these damaged, wayward souls.
It has EVERYthing to do with showing that veterans are damaged goods. They number in the tens of thousands, donchaknow....the article says so. If you’re a veteran, you’re mind-f**ked and a threat to society.
Do I need to connect the final dot(s)?
If so, he's about the youngest one out there.
We ended the war 40 years ago this summer, and realistically speaking the chances of him turning 18, going through basic and then being deployed while the US was already withdrawing large numbers of troops seem very improbable.
Free college educations? Kids with who speak good English can’t get jobs? They would be better off taking their educations back to their home countries.
Our local American Legion post tried to open a boarding house for vets. An old mansion in the middle of town came up for sale cheap. We could have boarded about 8 to 12 vets, offering them two meals a day, and a visit by a nurse once a week. We had volunteer Legion carpenters, plumbers and electricians ready to fix the place and the money to do it. We would charge the vets a portion of their disability or SS checks to keep the operation going.
By the time we talked to the local and state bureaucrats, the idea became completely untenable and too expensive to carry out. The money was used instead to build a new Legion.