Everyone who knows me is aware of my propensity to digest numbers and discover aberrant results. I saw this on Veterans today as a tweet.
Extrapolating by adding 59.5 Million dollars to the new authorization of 10. 3 Million dollars yields 69.8 Million.
I searched to find how many Vets are homeless on any one given night and came up with this:
http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm
They quote 107,000 currently with half from the Vietnam conflict. Dividing 69.8 million by 107,000, I arrived at the magic sum of $65,234.00 being expended on each homeless Vet.
To show you how out of touch the VA is with its own finances, consider this. An unmarried Veteran standing alone on 100% disability gets $2673.00/month. Multiply that by 12 months and voila!-$32,076.00 per year. Subtracting 65,234.00 from this figure leaves us a savings of $33,158.00 per Vet. Moving right along in mathematics world, let’s multiply that by the same aforementioned 107,000 Vets. I “construe”this to yield a savings of $35,479,060.00 if we simply give these poor souls a 100% disability rating regardless of whether they are qualified recipients or not. A homeless Vet would probably be able to escape the shackles of his zip code absent horrific mental illness. Without denigrating the esteemed VASEC, it seems there’s something amiss with this plan.
Murphy’s sixteenth law expounded on this when he observed that monies expended in pursuit of remedying a social inequity-don’t. Spending even more to right the unintended laws of consequences further squanders the VA’s precious financial resources. Sometimes the bean counters get lost in all those zeros.
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Bethanie Spangenberg
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Wesley McCauley
Veterans Claims Help 
It really doesn’t have anything to do with homeless veterans. It is about funneling money to special interest groups who in turn delve it out to local businesses. And you will notice that it is only for mentally ill homeless Veterans. I am a special disabled Veteran who no one will hire, including the Federal Government, because I am over a Veteran over 55 and have a disability. I have 6 years of college in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with an impeccable service record. I have had a security clearance all of my adult life up until now. My credit is excellent, no history of substance abuse, no mental illnesses and not even any traffic tickets.
I lost my job in this “Great Recession”. I also lost my pension, my home equity, my investments and my savings from being unemployed so long. My unemployment has ran out, the rent us due, the electricity is going to be shut off and I have no money to stay living here. I have no one to turn to, my wife died three years ago. I tried for help to get a job from VETS/DOL within the DVOP program. They won’t even return my phone calls. I tried the social worker with the VA homeless prevention and he told me to get rid of my dog. He no longer returns my phone calls. I am not trying to get sympathy here, but I am not tallied as one of those 107K homeless Veterans. I am not even on their RADAR screen.
I an not the only one in this position. There has to be untold hundreds of thousands like me that no one will recognize. It is only about making money. It has nothing to do with the Veteran or human decency!