Perhaps if you actually READ some of the earlier posts, you might avoid making really absurd statements, like “a majority of homeless people are Veterans” — since the highest legitimate estimates indicate that about 1% or less are actually veterans. And since far fewer than 10% of soldiers, sailors & airmen ever see combat, the number of homeless vets that could believably attribute their degenerated existence to any combat experience seems pretty tiny, compared to the rest of the homeless population.

Another point worth noting is that in order to qualify for full VA benefits as a “veteran,” one only has to have served for 90 days or more in uniform. At 90 days, virtually every soldier is still in training in the U.S., and far from any “combat experience,” and it’s certainly germane to the discussion to ask just how many of these identified “homeless veterans” ever served in combat, or even left the United States at all? Inflating the “homeless veteran” number with people who washed out of training for Cook’s School, after 94 days in the Army, or were kicked out in their fourth month for drunkennes or drug use, makes the bleeding-heart argument even more specious.

The military is pretty good at weeding out the degenerates and weaklings, since it’s not easy for drunks and druggies to hide in a relatively “closed” military environment. Inevitably some squeak through for a year or two, or develop their habits after their initial training, when they’re observed less carefully. It’s not a great leap of logic to assume that these “bad apples” that are ejected may well make up a disproportionate percentage of these “homeless veterans.” Attributing their homelessness (or their drug or alcohol problems) to their military service, just because they shoveled shit in Fort Riley, Kansas, is disingenuous at best.

I’ve spent some time in military hospitals overseas and Stateside, including Walter Reed & Bethesda Naval Hospital, and since retirement have spent a lot of time in VA hospitals and clinics. By choice, I use VA facilities instead of military ones because the quality of care, in my experience, is so vastly superior to even Walter Reed or Bethesda. How many civilians, even, can claim that they’ve never spent more than five minutes in a waiting room? At least in the Virginia VA facilities I use, if your appointment is 3 pm, you’ll be in with the lab tech by 3:05 and probably see the doc by 3:15. Why civilian facilities never can manage anything better than a 30-45-minute wait is beyond me, but that’s standard for every doctor or clinic my wife visits.

You have grossly overstated the homeless veteran population, and, like most civilians, automatically attribute the drug, alcohol or mental problems of these people to some military experience. Perhaps if you actually KNEW some real veterans, or spent a few minutes researching the actual statistics, you might disabuse yourself of this irrational fantasy — no matter how well it reinforces your obvious preconceptions of the military and its soldiers.

Has a salary of $363,100 listed for the CEO.
That’s $36,100 less than the salary of the President of the US. The total amount of the
funds not used for raising donations or admin expenses for 2005 is listed as $449,512. Some thing is just not right, when we have charities like this.
But my real anger is in the public radio area, take a look at charity 4 on the list. WTVS Detroit Public Radio and the salary paid the CEO to run a public radio station. But it gets worse. Take a look at Public Radio Station WNYC
whose pays their CEO $414,846. That more than the President of the US makes.
Based on all the public radio broadcasts I have heard, I think their CEOs who draw these high salaries are being paid a lot more than they are worth.
My rant in this whole post is that people need to take a serious look at the info available on charities before donating. Second, I think the public radio stations I have heard are very anti conservative. Donations to anti-conservative groups just contribute to the downfall of conservatives.

The site I used for the info is found Here

Two. One who had obvious mental problems and another whose legitimacy was still being checked.

Of course the Loony Left won’t be satisfied until we send out roving goon squads, wrestling each homeless person to the ground and beating them until they admit to being veterans — and then forcibly dragging them, kicking and screaming, into the nearest VA facility.

And generally the numbers are actually a lot worse than that, since most of the “charity” industries have learned all the bookkeeping tricks, like hiding salaries in subcontracted “programs” who probably aren’t even tax-exempt and whose books are definitely not transparent. The rackets I’m most familiar with, the larger so-called animal rescue groups (PETA, and anything with “Humane” in its name) learned to cook their books and look legitimate this way years ago, but they learned it from the other corporate charities whose associates & ex-employees set up little companies in which people rotate in and out of, just like the government’s infamous “revolving door.”

Like I indicated before — the only numbers that aren’t completely meaningless are the homeless that have proved they were veterans. Despite years of outreach from VA, and some definite hard pimping from the local governments (who’d love to get some of these guys transferred to or subsidized by VA), the number who have been checked out as legitimate veterans is remarkably low.

The substance abusers in the homeless system — a high percentage of the group — can get lots of freebies, often including a disability check, from VA just by asking for it (and actually being a vet), one natually asks, “When’s the last time a drunk or junkie has passed up free care, free Methadone, or a free monthly check?”

Calling that worthless raw data “information” is being exceedingly liberal in the terminology department.

Well, sort of. But if you read the fine print (Appendix 5) the source of the data is pure bullshit: local state & county homeless weenies, local nonprofit groups , and surveys of the homeless (!). However, when you get to the part where it says how many of these actually availed themselves of VA money or care, the local numbers drop from thousands to … DOZENS! Apparently it’s one thing to spin your combat fairy tale to the local sob-sisters, but a bit different when you know your B.S. won’t fly.

Frankly, VA shouldn’t be paying for drug or alcohol treatment anyhow. That’s a self-inflicted “wound,” so screw ‘em.

The only legitimate numbers in this mess are the ones that delineate the number of homeless veterans the VA has on its rolls — either treating them or paying disabiliity. The rest is fluff for suckers.

That’s because they didn’t. It was 19,000.

10 Highly Paid CEO’s at Low-Rated Charities

For charities to be successful, they need talented, experienced leaders. Those leaders command significant salaries. But CEO’s who command high salaries should also get the most out of the organizations they lead. The leaders of these 10 organizations are taking high salaries at the expense of spending dollars on the charity’s programs. Despite receiving more than $250,000 in annual pay, these CEO’s run organizations that devote less than 60% of their budgets to their programs and services. That means that at least 40% of your dollars are going to such costs as fundraising and administration, including the salary of the CEO.
Rank Charity Salary
1 Youth Development Fund $363,100
2 The Rodale Institute $336,417
3 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People $320,975
4 WTVS Detroit Public Television $310,631
5 Council of Independent Colleges $310,000
6 St. Bernard’s School $307,500
7 The Phillips Collection $301,118
8 The Lovett School $279,200
9 Institute of the Americas $276,500
10 New York Academy of Sciences $253,000