When you talk about the “Homeless
Problem”, you need to look at it from several angles. First. How do
you define Homelessness? There are three types of homelessness;
Chronic, Transitional, and Episodic. Chronic Homelessness is people
suffering from disabilities, substance abuse problems, and are what
people look at as “skid-row” homeless. Transitional
Homelessness is usually people who become homeless due to a
catastrophic event and is usually short term. Episodic Homelessness is people who frequently shuttle in and out of shelters to hide and
usually are chronically unemployed, experience medical problems,
mental health problems, and substance abuse problems.
Second. Where are the Homeless
mostly located and what has led to these places? If you look at
the “Top
Five States” with the highest homeless rate per capita, they
are as follows: New York, 91,897; Hawaii, 6,530; California, 120,972;
Oregon, 14,476; Washington, 22,304, accounting for 43.3% of all the
US Homeless. This is ridiculous. California and New York by
themselves account for 38.5% of all the Homeless population. Think
about that. Five states out to the 50 plus DC account for almost
half and two state account for over a third of Homeless people. If
you look at the “Top Five Cities” with the highest homeless rate,
they are as follows: New York City- 78,676; Los Angeles- 49,955;
Seattle- 12,112; San Diego- 8,576; and DC- 6,904. These 5 cities add
up 28.3%, over a quarter of the entire Homeless population. There are
19,495 cities in the US. There are 310 cities with a population over 100,000 just for
comparison. What do these “Top Five States” and “Top Five
Cities” have in common? Did you know they are all run by Liberals.
Third. What makes up the Homeless
population?
According to the U.S. Census, of the 9%
of of the Homeless are made up by immigrants; with 61 percent being
Illegal Aliens or “ Not Naturalized Citizens” as they say. The
Illegal Alien population in the US not only makes up 3.2% of the US
population, but also makes up 14% of the Homeless Immigrant population in
the US; 4.4 times their Capita.
According to the numbers from the FBI,
compared with the number of criminals who are Illegal Aliens, the
majority of Illegal Immigrants, 60%, are not in the US to work as
Liberal Politicians tell you. You have 40% here to Run Drugs, Run
Child Slavery, Run Child Prostitution Ring, and other criminal
activities. So why doesn't the Media cover this? Because the Media is
Liberal. I have no problem with Legal Immigrants. My problem is with
Illegal Aliens is you need to do it legally, become a legal citizens,
or get a work Visa. According to the GOV stats, 40% of Illegal Aliens
are here to work and the last 20% are here to milk the system for any
entitlements they can get. If you are here to work, I am all behind
you; unfortunately, according to studies, that is only about 40%. One
of the biggest causes of Homelessness is our Liberal Politicians. They would rather bring in and take care of Illegals Aliens instead
of our own people. The reason is Liberals need votes and Illegal ones
are as good as any.
A survey of the Homeless data indicated
that 40 percent of homeless males are Veterans (VETs), compared to 5.6 percent
of the all US population being VETs. I can tell you from experience,
that Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) affects people in many different ways. You have the Police,
Fire Department, EMT, Emergency Room people, and people who have
experienced traumatic events who have PTSD, and I'm not trying to down
play their PTSD; but the Military PTSD is completely different. In
the Military, when you go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or another hot spot,
unlike stateside, everyone wants to kill you. If it is not a Brother
or Sister in arms, only on rare occasions do you trust someone else.
You see the horrors of war. You see your friends die in your arms. You see what the
enemy does to children, let alone adults. Your mind was not meant to
see such things. Foreigners, who are supposed to be your Allies, put
beside you for political reasons. They turn their weapons on you, your
Brothers and Sisters, killing them without remorse. They tell
you it is an “Isolated Incident”, when you know it is not. There
is nothing like that experience, thank God, in the US, but the
Military VET relives it daily. You see all these horrors and it is
hard to come back; a piece of you never will. It changes you, because
it is hard to unsee what you have seen and you never will. Many
Military suffering from PTSD, become Homeless because they do not
want to accidentally hurt someone out of reflex. They have trouble
holding a job because they have to trust someone who isn't Military;
and they don't sleep because the nightmares keep coming back. This is
also why we have a staggering amount of Veteran Suicides. But
Liberals do not care about that either.
If you read the The
Council of Economic Advisers report, you will find that 20% of
homeless people have a severe mental illness, with 39% experienced
mental health problems; since they are separated, I would take it to
mean 59% of the homeless have mental problems. This leads me to ask
if shutting down most the mental hospitals was a good idea. In 1965,
President
Johnson signed a Social Security Amendments of 1965, which
stripped the payments to the Government run mental hospitals; another
great Liberal move. Although many presidents since then have tried to
fix the problem, the amount of funding has never been adequate. The
report points out that 16% have a chronic substance abuse with 26%
having drug problems. It doesn't point out what the difference between the
two; however, together that is 42% have drug problems. It points out
alcohol abuse problems in 38%, which to me, rates with the drug
problem; are they the same ones or different people, the report does
not say. To add on top of this, 44% have physical disabilities for
which they are getting no treatment.
If you look back in our history, when we
once took care of all these people, you have to ask; What changed? Where did the
money go? The truth is since most homeless never vote, the
politicians do not really care about them. Liberal politicians kill
two birds with one stone in this area. They redirect (steal) the
money that once helped these people; giving it to other people who do vote for
more entitlements. Now ask yourself; What is the second bird. Liberals uses
entitlements to hold down minorities and the poor, essentially
putting them into economic slavery. The Liberal politicians say they
want to help them, but set up the system to punish them if they try to
leave the system. Homelessness is a symptom of Liberal over abuse of
the system to try and corner votes. These people need help, but since
they do not vote, the Liberal thought is “Forget Them”. On the
other hand, Liberals will help Illegal Aliens because they will vote
Illegally. Nothing against foreigners, but we need to take care of
our people first. If you believe this, stop voting for Liberals. They
will never help the homeless because they do not vote.
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