Poverty among Veterans (blog5)

      Many veterans that have put their lives in jeopardy to save ours are now homeless. Its a messed up situation. There was about 12,700 homeless veterans in 2010 and the number kept increasing. These veterans left their homes and families for months or years at a time and now when they're done fighting for us, we cant even provide them with a place to live? We should be paying veterans a monthly salary that they will be able to live off of. There's plenty of organizations, but that's not enough. The organizations they have in place do not help everyone therefore we should be making more of an effort to give them a good secure life just like they gave to us by fighting. Not only is that an issue but a lot of veterans turn to alcohol and drug dependence which makes it harder for them to compete for a job. PTSD is also still a big issue within veterans. Its not easy to hold a job with PTSD. These are just some of the many reason we should be doing more for our veterans.