Any vets among the Audiophiles here?

USN 2001-2007

Yes, Nam '70-'71. My politics lead me to be outraged that ANY veterans are homeless in this country. FEMA had all those un-used small trailers sitting around doing nothing-why arent they or something like them being GIVEN to vets who served our country??!! I'm not proposing anything so radical as the only people who are considered true citizens are those who served, ala Heinlein in Starship Troopers, but why arent we doing more for our vets? I'm not in the position financially to do a lot, but I do send cigars and magazines over to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan through a community program here. I wrote my Congressman about doing more for the homeless vets, no response.--Mrmitch

Mrmitch - We take excellent care of our billionaire veterans. The small people are on their own.

When the Repubs were threatening to shut down our government, I read a letter to the editor from a soldier in Iraq. He said that those who were stationed over there in the war zone would have their pay postponed and asked why Congress was going to continue receiving their checks during the shutdown. I felt he made a very good point.

It's high time we all get mad. And lets get straight about who's to blame - don't fall into The Tea Party nonsense. It's the rich who are starving vets and robbing us blind.

We owe our veterans a dept that is not being fully repaid

Yup. Isochronism is right we are in debt to our veterans and I don't think it will ever be fully repaid. I donate whenever I can to veterans charities. This is chessy but when I was selling CDs and DVDs on other sites I never shied away from selling to buyers who were in the armed forces. It was a pain in the butt filling out all that paperwork at the post office but my thoughts were at least I'm helping entertain them a small way.