Decades of studies show that 25% of the Homeless are Chronically Mentally Ill.

Democrat policies have consequences

The guy who started this ball rolling was a Republican, Ronald Reagan, when he was Governor of California. He closed inpatient mental health programs. When he became president, he "sequestered" money needed by VA to provide care. What that means is the money budgeted by Congress and signed into law appeared on the books, as if it was there, but we were specifically ordered to not spend it. It helped keep his deficits down while giving the impression that he cared about Veterans.

Funny, I thought it all started with Geraldo Rivera’s exposure of Willowbrook.
I thought you said you were some kind of big wheel with the VA and were a close personal friend of Max Cleland. Surely you could have shined the light on this years ago with all of that clout.
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Max worked for Senator Cranston and was looking at a model for what became the Vet Cener program, when I first met him. I worked for the VA when he ran it and saw him at various events in Atlanta every year I went there for training. He was not a "close personal friend," but made everyone he met feel like that was the case.

Yeah yeah yeah… you’ve told us this before.
Yet, you and he allowed this to go on unchecked.
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Working for the government, like many other employment situations, is not an exercise in democracy. In administering programs, I was given a budget, staff and other resources and told what was expected of me. As a Public Affairs Officer, my role was to explain to the public what the VA's General Assignment was and what it accomplished within the execution of its responsibilities.

Yeah yeah yeah.

So, PAO, eh?? So, you were a propagandist even back then.
You still were there and didn’t use your enormous influence to set them straight.
You should have quit your position as a protest against the VA.

General Thomas Turnage was Reagan's last head of the VA. In 1986, I attended the Annual Convention of the American Ex-POWs with him. When people are POWs they have very little power. In most POW camps, Americans formed self-governing units to help each other survive the ordeal. Humans being imperfect, some of us commit crimes against each other even under those conditions. The strongest punishment that these councils had was called "shunning." A shunned person was ignored by all, as if they did not exist.

At the convention, the General was to sit at the head table. His two traveling aides sat with me at a table in the middle of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Everything seemed to go pretty smoothly until General Turnage rose to speak. The officials at the head table treated him politely and hung onto his every word. The rest of the assembled POWs acted as if he did not exist. They talked (loudly) among themselves and many of them milled around the room. When his personal aide asked one of the POWs what was happening, she was told that the POWs decided to shun him. They wanted Reagan to get the message that Veterans were not happy with the budgeting tricks of OMB that shortchanged their healthcare system. The General was not happy on the trip back to the hotel that evening.

Of course you did

What did you (not) do?

Merry is in a constant state of underwear binding. He/she hates me because I have lived a life that is interesting. The most interesting thing he/she does is attack me personally to make up for the fact that my Trump posts expose him for the lying Putin Puppet he is.

Here's the extent of what he claimed was his service. Mind you, as his name and age indicate, this was during the Viet Nam era.

I wouldn't call it hate, however, just envy. There's a reason that some put so much into attaching themselves to the Trump Cult. Latching onto something like that is sadly seen as an option for those seeking a sense of worth they feel lacking in their own lives. Which is sad, because that worth would come from within, not from acting as a proxy for neo-Fascists megalomaniacs like Putin or Trump.

yup... democRATS run the best large cities in the US... going on for decades... before Reagan...