"More female veterans are winding up homeless; VA resources strained; many are single parents" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | July 6, 2009
Ummm, THERE SHOULD NOT BE ONE VETERAN -- male or female -- that is HOMELESS in this country!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup, SUPPORT the TROOPS!!!
I am SO TIRED of that BULLSHIT CLUB being waved by HYPOCRITICAL, WAR-MONGERING ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!
You wanna SUPPORT the TROOPS?
End the LYING F***ING WARS and DON'T START ANY OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON - The number of female service members who have become homeless after leaving the military has jumped dramatically in recent years, according to new government estimates, presenting the Veterans Administration with a challenge as it struggles to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.
We are going to be LIVING with BUSHBAMA'S LIES for DECADES, folks!
America, you have NOT EVEN BEGUN to PAY for these wars based on lies!
As more women serve in combat zones, the share of female veterans who end up homeless, while still relatively small at an estimated 6,500, has nearly doubled over the last decade, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
ENJOYING your EQUAL RIGHTS and LIBERATION, agenda-pushing ladies?
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I ALWAYS FAILED to see how EQUALITY was equated with BECOMING MORE like a MASS-MURDERING MAN, ladies! Never understood it, still don't!
For younger veterans, it is even more pronounced: One out of every 10 homeless vets under the age of 45 is now a woman, the statistics show. And unlike their male counterparts, many have the added burden of being single parents....
HOMELESS WITH KIDS, hanh?
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Overall, female veterans are now between two and four times more likely to end up homeless than their civilian counterparts, according to the VA, most as a result of the same factors that contribute to homelessness among male veterans: mental trauma related to their military service and difficulty transitioning into the civilian economy.
But while veterans’ services have been successfully reaching out to male veterans through shelters and intervention programs, women are more likely to fall through the cracks.
But WE VALUE WOMEN way more than those blood-drinking, wife-whipping "terrorists."
You know, AT LEAST THEY HAVE a MUD HUT to live in!!!!!!
Yeah, I NEVER WANT to SEE or HEAR the Muslim-hating, Zionist propaganda ever again!!!!!!!
“While the overall numbers [of homeless vets] have been going down, the number of women veterans who are homeless is going up,’’ Peter Dougherty, director of homeless veterans programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said in a telephone interview.
The GOVERNMENT CAN'T HELP but LIE, can they?
It's a KNEE-JERK THING, isn't it?
The trend has alarmed top lawmakers and veterans groups, who fear that the federal government - which is already straining to care for new veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, brain injuries, and other physical ailments - is ill-prepared to deal with the special needs of female veterans who find themselves on the street.
Pffft! Like Congress and the government care!!!!
If THEY DID, then THE LIES WOULD BE EXPOSED and the WARS WOULD END RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
This is all SHIT FOOLEY SHOWS for public gorging!
Many of them are like Angela Peacock, a former Army sergeant who was diagnosed with PTSD when she returned from Iraq in 2004 and became addicted to pain-killers....
Not ILLEGAL DRUGS?
According to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, a nonpartisan advocacy group in Washington, about 23 percent of the homeless population in the United States are veterans. Nearly half are from the Vietnam era and three-fourths experience some type of alcohol, drug, or mental heath problem.
A NATIONAL DISGRACE that should be BLARED from the PAPERS EVERY DAY!!
Instead, we get DOSE after DOSE of WAR-PROMOTING PROPAGANDA!!!!
Most of the homeless vets, who are estimated by the Veteran’s Administration to number at least 130,000 on any given night nationwide, are men older than 50.
Which is about the SAME AMOUNT that are OCCUPYIN IRAQ right now!
Btw, the TOWN HAS ONE (at least)! I SEE HIM WANDERING the STREETS EVERYDAY! ON one or two occasions, I have given him $20 dollars and told him to go get a meal -- because I BELIEVE!!
“Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter 'when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousnessa will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.” --Isaiah 58:7-8 (N.I.V.)
And yet, TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS....
With a new generation of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan leaving the armed forces, however, the demographics are swiftly changing. And with more women serving on active duty - a full 15 percent of the military is now female - the share of female homeless veterans has grown from about 3 percent a decade ago to 5 percent, according to the VA. '
Try to think of it as "LIBERATION," ladies.
Among younger veterans, meanwhile, the share of women is nearly double, making up 9 percent of homeless veterans under the age of 45. “There are twice as many under 45 than above,’’ said Dougherty, who is also the executive director of the Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates the federal government’s efforts to combat homelessness.
Whadda ya know, another GOVERNMENT FAILURE!!!
In recent days, senior members of Congress have called for an expansion of some of the VA’s programs to ensure they are properly suited to meeting the needs of the growing female population....
That's Congress for you -- always billions short and years late when it comes to the PEOPLE!
The Obama administration has taken some steps toward combating homelessness among all veterans, including allocating $75 million to public housing authorities in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam to provide permanent housing and dedicated case managers for an estimated 10,000 veterans....
THAT'S IT?
The WARS have COST TRILLIONS!!!!!
How about CUTTING BACK on THOSE, 'bamer?
--more--"Of course, the Zionist, 'er, Boston Globe is more worried about certain families than the soldiers they helped send to war with their abominable and enabling lies!
That was ABOVE the FOLD!
The FEMALE SOLDIERS are BELOW (and that's the hierarchical world view of the Globe in a nutshell).
