Now if only the ronnynomic free market capitalist 'job cremators' actually swayed from their con game and 'created jobs' instead! But lets not tell their hired government representatives, supposed to be representing the ones that pay their salaries, for them folk wanna maintain the con!
Jan. 24, 2012 - Laid off as a laborer and truck driver for the city of Minneapolis in the depths of the recession, Wes Winkelman found himself unable to find another job.
Homelessness and trouble followed. He drank too much.
"The first victim of homelessness is sobriety. You've got nothing else in life to do. You're broke. After awhile, stuff happens," Winkelman, a week short of 58, confides as he describes his transition from self-supporting to unemployed and homeless to housed.
His life spiraled downward. "One thing led to another. I got into some mischief," he admits, giving for example a DWI and also mentioning medical problems.
Nights, the 1970s U.S. Army veteran and medic laid his head in homeless shelters, listing among the best those operated by St. Stephen's Human Services and Simpson Housing Services.
On the other hand, at the worst shelter in town, he says, "It's kind of scary because some of the people in there are pretty much like me, bozos, but some more are in need of adult supervision. More are in need of correctional supervision. Some are in need of real looking at."
His homelessness lasted until he found housing two years ago with the help of a permanent supportive housing program funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Now he lives in a one-bedroom apartment near 36th and Grand Avenue on the south side of Minneapolis. read more>>>
24 January 2012 - The number of homeless female military veterans more than doubled from 2006 to 2010, according to new government estimates.
Acknowledging "limited VA data," homeless female vets numbered 3,328 in 2010, according to a report by the General Accounting Office published on Monday, up from 1,380 in 2006.
The report says actions are necessary to ensure homeless female veterans get the housing and services they need.
The GAO says a lack of coordination among the Veteran’s Administration and Housing and Urban Development, two government agencies that provide housing and services to homeless veterans, is hampering efforts to help these. read more>>>
As it says in the writeup above, 'a lack of coordination between the VA and HUD', that isn't as much the problem as the underfunding for both especially as to the VA, which helps create that so called lack of coordination and oh so much more, and the whole decade of not, added to the previous decades, as two more wars were waged. America I'm Lookin At You and Those 'Job Cremators' of our present capitalism and our supposed congressional representatives who will lay blame on the agencies in your names!
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