1 of 4: It used to be that this scenario pertained more to jobless veterans before, during, and after the Great Depression, and among the other jobless poor, especially minorities, whom the private sector and the government let become street dwellers, pawns of every kind of evil, some of them becoming like unto it to survive. It is rapidly losing it darker hue. Just as the Devil knows no not for skin color, neither does poverty. The rich found it out during the stock market crash of the Great Depression. They couldn't stand it; many perished because they could not bear the thought and weight of poverty. Imagine. But how quickly we forget!
Had it not been for the enlightened efforts of the Roosevelt era (from whence came the types of benefits we talk about here), it would have been even worse than it is today. Poverty is a subculture more so now than it used to be: the poor are more unhealthy, unsound mentally, due to fatigue of battle at home and abroad. Further, veterans mostly find no sense of place when they return home. If they don't have faithful families or others who love them, veterans really do return to a homeless land, where they are given lip
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