http://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/137647468/va-loans-make-many-foreclosed-homes-off-limits#commentBlock
After years of dedicated service to this country while in the very blossom of their youth, service men and women are and have been exposed to the violence of war, toxic herbicidal chemicals, radio active ordinance, battle fatigue or PTSD, depression, anxiety, guilt, prescription and street drugs, plus alcohol use/abuse as a means of coping with a litany of complex war related disorders and present day family crisis. The individuals operating the VA and the US Government repay these homeless injured families by denying them the opportunity to inhabit even a low cost home because it needs moderate repairs. This is the true telling of how the people who control the entire military industrial complex view US service people. They are spent, burnt out, damaged, war ravaged individuals who are probably addicted to drugs and or alcohol and will not work and simply default on the loan. Everyone deserves a home and shelter, be they veterans or not! The people controlling the purse strings by manipulating the US economy are of the opinion that they OWN everything, (and everyone) yet they are of direct lineage to the monied elite who never spend a day on the battlefield, let alone years and by familial lineage and fortunate economic or political connections inherit the very best of life’s leisure and pleasure all at a safe distance from danger. This is a social crime perpetrated against the lower classes who have carried the terrifying burden of “Protecting the Homeland” (are we living in Germany now?). It is long overdue for the political methods of operating the United States of America begin to reflect the actual needs of actual American Citizens. America has become the most un-humanitarian country on the globe. Imperialism is on the march and young men and women graduating from high school are the next to step into the uniforms which will see them off to war in some or other foreign land reeking havoc on poor innocent farmers and their children. So, not only are we preventing our own citizens from occupying a safe, clean and warm shelter, we are destroying homes and villages in other countries. I regret having served this country during the Vietnam war. Now that I have had some years to watch and reflect upon the inner-workings of the U.S. War Machine and it protracted expansion, I fully comprehend that it bears no consideration for those who have suffered most by devoting their very lives to America. In the end homelessness leads to widespread despair, estrangement from family, amplified physical and mental illness and increase in prison populations and suicides.
-Orbmanelson
