A Rant Against Homelessless

I hope mercy will be extended to me as a stump and bump along with my first blog. It has been my desire for some time to contribute in some way on a number of issues concerning deliberate misconceptions set forth by conservatives and those who are encouraged by them. Homelessness is one of those issues. Homeless people have been labeled as drug-addicts, drunks, or just plain lazy. The Reagan Administration in 1987 instituted budget cuts that virtually put disabled veterans from the VA hospitals and those being cared for in nursing homes onto the streets because they were required to show financial need to receive care and those who were not put out received reduced care. This is from an ideology that glorifies the military. Apparently they are glorified only while they are active in enforcing their campaigns then they are tossed aside as so much "collaterally damaged"; used goods to be tossed aside as a financial liability.

Many of these vets were mentally disabled becoming immediately homeless. Since then nothing substantial has been accomplished to elevate this problem of homelessness. On the contrary, the situation seems to be worsening, resulting form jobs cuts and losses and home foreclosures while we listen to more plans for corporate welfare, the only entitlement acceptable to most conservatives. The number of homeless families continually increases, the numbers never are truly known since the government seems to change the definition of poverty and homelessness as the wind blows. Care for the poor and homeless is a command form God not be conveniently tossed to the churches and non-profits to save the Fed money for empire building and corporate welfare.

"ROBERT PEAR, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, Published: December 27, 1985"

"National Coalition for the Homeless, NCH Fact Sheet #12, Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, August 2007"

"Exodus 22:25, 23:1-6, Leviticus 27:8, Proverbs 22:16, 28:6, 29:7, et al)