• BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Can’t wait to see another multi-billion dollar corporation get bailed out while I still don’t have health insurance, and I’m still paying off credit card debt from during the Pandemic when the government gave people a measly $2400 over two years but handed out PPP loans and forgiveness to anyone that asked.

    Fuck this country makes me ashamed to be a veteran.

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      3 months ago

      there’s a long, proud tradition in this country of screwing over veterans starting in 1776

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        3 months ago

        Don’t believe the homeless…many homeless people are not veterans. Many were just regular citizens like you and I who worked their asses off every day but then got screwed and into the streets.

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          veterans are a sizeable portion of the homeless, most American service men/women come from extremely poor backgrounds, they are the workers.

          there is a reason it’s called a poverty draft.

          learn some solidarity.

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            3 months ago

            I was being sarcastic. However you’re right. At least back in Sandy San Diego, a bunch of the homeless people I got to meet were of different backgrounds. Some were migrants, many were veterans but I would say more than 50% were people down on their luck. I used to walk by St Vicents on my way to school. Many of them were on drugs. Over the years the population changes a lot though.

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              being honest here, “down on their luck” is already a fucking joke. these people arn’t poor because they diden’t have enough luck, they are poor because the system they live in wants them to be poor, poverty and homelessness isn’t a symptom, it’s a feature.

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                Yeah, basically. You know, I don’t think there is an evil mastermind behind any of it. We just basically made up a system that causes homelessness, but because it doesn’t affect us, then we do nothing to fix it. Later on, when we are affected in old age or when we loose our home, we simply don’t have a voice to say anything about it. So we do nothing.

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                  the funny thing about that, the rich have class consciousness, they know from rational self-interest what to do

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      If you have not filed for VA compensation, you need to. If you want some help with the process let me know, I don’t feel like typing out a book.