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The mother is a disabled veteran.
I'm not super pro-military or anything, but a veteran, especially a disabled veteran, deserves to be taken care of by the country they sacrificed for.
Obviously, the school deserves to be sued for what they did, but those kids should never have been homeless in the first place. They should have been housed by the U.S. military on the military's dime.
The military certainly has the money. Build a single less B-1 (or whatever the new hotness stealth airplane or destroyer is) and you could probably house every single homeless vet. Maybe every homeless person. Idk but those things are insanely expensive.
The F-35 program cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion.
But hey, at least they fly well enough for us to give them to Israel I guess...
Don’t be so naive, we need to spend all that money to protect Americans from global threats such as lack of affordable healthcare and affordable housing.
Wait
checks notes
Sorry we need to spend all that money to protect Americans from looks closer… there is something scribbled here does it say “axis of evil”? Next to it someone wrote “Iran” then scribbled it out and wrote “Iraq” and then it looks like it was scribbled out a second time to write “Iran” again?…
…Oh ok there we go it also says “Islamic Extremists”, well that is a good reason! Jeez after Bin Laden it has just been one ground invasion after another of jihadi ground troops on American shores. Thank goodness we didn’t spend that money on stupid government handouts. Remember when San Francisco didn’t build enough shore cannons to blow up ISIS landing boats and now that whole part of the country is gone? sigh and the liberals were SURE painting the cannons with LGTBQ colors was going to save them..
You know what really pisses me off as a conservative though? No one in this country respects veterans. Every time I go to get on a plane and the airline invites veterans to come on first, I clap beaming like the proud patriotic American that I am. When I look around though people around me are sometimes just on their phones and ignoring this opportunity to honor our veterans. Kids these days don’t even care about veterans and if you start honoring the service of our veterans with empty platitudes around millennials they don’t even respond they just want to talk about dumb shit like how we should at least give veterans free healthcare or affordable housing or childcare support.
Why does that shit matter? What do you think veterans want the government to just give them healthcare for free after they have fought so hard for the privilege of having to buy healthcare from corporations hellbent on cutting every single cost they can, quality of health services be damned? I feel like millennials just want to live in a communist hellscape where even the hospitals and schools are government run.
Those veterans fought for our country, don’t spit in their face by offering a hand to them, this is the proud and free land of the bootstraps where anybody can make it so long as they can make it. If you see a homeless veteran on the street, share a smile with them knowing that they not only fought for the freedom of you to succeed but also for them to fail and thus balance is preserved in this wonderful land of god.
Wake up, babe, new copypasta just dropped
This is 100% false. Pure disinformation. The $1.5T figure is for all costs associated with the program through to the aircraft's end of life in the year 2070.
I mean...Why the hell are we sparing 1.5 Trillion dollars of our future income on jet fighters when we won't spare even 10% of that on our own fucking people at home without a god damned 3 ring circus about how much we're already spending?
Do you not see the hypocrisy here?
No, I don't. Lots of other countries have a decent military AND good social supports. You guys can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Or, hear me out here, we could spend $1.5T over 45 years to house the homeless. That's $33.3 billion dollars each year, every year.
But how does that immediately make Boeing richer? Think of their poor earnings.
Well, if Boeing built housing under contract for the government, they could make money that way.
The military is too busy misplacing and spending all their dime on things to hurt the poors.
I'm being honest here, there's actually a ton of housing support for homeless veterans. She'll have to take action to access that help of course, and that doesn't negate the trauma of getting evicted the entire family is experiencing, or the school district making it worse
I don’t know if this makes me a radical communist or something, but in my opinion, if you’ve served in the military, especially if you’ve become disabled during your time, you shouldn’t get assistance paying for a house.
Your house should be bought and paid for. 110% subsidy, to help pay for things that will inevitably be imperfect with the property; electrical issues, corroded pipes, outdated HVAC, security, CO detectors, etc.
Can we at least agree that people should never be homeless? No?
Can we at least agree that disabled people should never be homeless? Still no?
How about veterans? Once again no.
Disabled veterans with children? Believe it or not, also no.
Can we agree that the wealthiest country on Earth shouldn't have these problems?
Laughs in late-stage capitalism.
But think about those poor workers who won't be able to supply billionaires with yachts? What about their kids huh!?!
No child should go hungry or miss out on an education. We have the resources to treat people better.
Tbh, the fact you even mentioned veterans is really fuckin weird to most people.
What makes them any more deserving than anyone else? Because they killed brown people for oil money?
Just shows the level of brainwashing going on
It's not that I think veterans are better people or anything. It's just that if I were to literally risk my life for some organization (such as the US government), I would expect that organization to show some fucking gratitude when I need help.
I really don't see why making their own decisions to risk their lives for money makes them any more deserving than a single mother or what have you
In fact, you could argue that the single mother is more deserving of everyone's help because all she did was exist; she didn't participate in destabilising half the planet
Am I not correct?
It functions better as a foot in the door. R's love* veterans (*on paper). Get them benefits and work from there.
Incremental progress baby. It's unsatisfying and miserable, and still better than the alternative.
The media loves to mention it for sympathy points but I think it's only being brought up here to point out the hypocrisy of the right who often speak highly of veterans in public but really don't give two shits about them.
This is heartbreaking. Alone the fact that there is such a thing as "homeless children" is heartbreaking. The US really needs some help.
Split representation in the House (72-48 in the state and 7-7 at the federal level, R favor), a 5-2 split in their supreme court (R favor) and 2 republican US senators (30-20 state level in the Republicans favor) is the reason why. Stop voting Red and your state won’t be so shitty towards people
The ones voting R are okay with this outcome as long as others get hurt. Even if innocents get hurt
And then when their shortsighted policies affect them they blame "the government" as if it wasn't the very people they elected that caused it.
With two children and nowhere to go, the suit states the disabled veteran mother switched both children to car riders while searching for steady housing.
What the fuck does "car riders" mean in this sentence?
Probably indicates that they won't be riding a school bus to school and will be dropped off and picked up by car.
This sounds like a clear violation of the McKinney-Vento Act.
I believe the problems stem from public schools being funded indirectly by real estate values. That means you're discriminated against if your parents are poor. That the school makes it so explicit by kicking the children out as soon as possible is not just cruel, it's stupid too.