Being a veteran is not a ticket to a free ride forever or an excuse for evading the consequences of your actions.
I suspect that some of the homeless holding up "homeless vet" signs are scamming you. Also, for those who are actual veterans, I suspect their being a vet had nothing to do with their homelessness. Bad things happen to veterans and non-veterans and both veterans and non-veterans make poor choices.
I am a veteran myself and served in Vietnam. Most vets, however, did not see combat. For many people serving ln the military, after basic training military service was not that much different than a civilian job. It didn't ruin you for life. For those who did see combat, for most it didn't warp them for life either. For those whom it did, the VA seeks to serve them, and they are likely receiving disability.
The argument that we must spend nothing on other services until certain other problems are solved, is nonsensical. This is the same argument that people make who say we should spend nothing on foreign aid as long as we have any poor people in America, or we should spend nothing on Parks as long as we have crime. Some problems will never be solved. The problem of spending money on immigrants and refugees is complex and I am opposed to the policy of putting people up in expensive hotels, however one can think this is a problem that needs to be addressed without to resorting to the homeless vet argument.
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