Wouldn't the $2 billion per week we are spending in Iraq be better used to help homeless Americans?

Answer 1

At this point if you want to help the homeless, you need functioning, staffed, residential mental hospitals that can also deal with drug addictions. When we reduced care facilities we sent them out on the streets so now we can call them homeless instead of insane, and feel morally superior to them. Not just the homeless please, but can you tell me why the affordability of health insurance is out of sight for so many people? This war is causing more chaos then we will even comprehend to the welfare of our country, its repercussions will sound on far past this administration.

Answer 2

Wouldn't it be better to provide hospitals for those of the homeless that need it and jobs for those that are able? Wouldn't it be better to make more Americans work instead of letting several of them that are in good health sit on their lazy butts getting free money from the government while complaining that no one cares what happens to them? If you cut out Welfare except for those that really need it, then you could use that money to help the homeless and educate them how to better their lives while dealing with the situation in Iraq. Maybe if we quit paying certain politicians so much we would have an easier time budgeting.

Answer 3

Do you know how much is being spent, in the US, on homeless people? Do you have any evidence to present that another $2 billion will eliminate the problem of homelessness? Do you have a background in sociology or anthropology, to understand why some people are homeless? I suspect your answer would be No, no and no.
When there is a problem in society, look for government as the cause rather than a solution of the problem, and you will be enlightened.
Some homeless are mentally disabled. We used to keep them in mental hospitals until governments got tired of paying for their care. Some are drug addicts. Another failure of government; the flow of illegal drugs continues, and government does not treat or require treatment of drug addicts. Some homeless people actually choose to be, so they do not have to work for a living.
Throwing money at a problem is not necessarily a solution. Just look at the education system in the US.

Answer 4

Why would you want to add 2 billion a week to the illegal drug trade? The "homeless" (bums) can blood get their own jobs and work for a living. If you don't want to spend the 2 billion per week on Iraq, than give it to me and I can buy a Hummer for each day of the week and get a new one when it runs out of gas.

Answer 5

Johnny is ideal--first, it might want to require us to be difficulty-free and admit that we received't win in Afghanistan, and we would want to have fewer American squaddies killed or maimed for existence. Fewer Afghans might want to struggle through also, so in the destiny it might want to probable develop American safe practices. an advantage might want to be a decrease in the heroine commerce. As for your certainly idea, $2 billion per week sounds like fairly some funds, yet $4 trillion is critical to revive the intrastructure in the U.S. subsequently, it might want to take 2,000 weeks (40 years) to revive the intrastructure. (for sure, that's 40 years fewer than Congress's present day plan). $2 billion might want to generate thousands of jobs and doubtless rigidity the unemployment cost to an unacceptable element of a few thing like 8%. extra perfect than the insupportable element that's at in the present day, yet no longer adequate to sparkling up the challenge.

Answer 6

Sure, if throwing money at the problem would make it go away. But it wouldn't. It's kind of the same thing as handing a band aid to someone whose arm was just amputated.

Answer 7

If you add up how much the war has spent, not only the homeless, but there could have been health care coverage for every American, and paid for 3 years, at 130.00 dollars a month.

Answer 8

Yes. Instead of using all this money on education, helping the poor, health care, or even buying Halloween candy, we are using it to destroy a country and have our troops killed. We have spent over 330 billion dollars on this illegal, unjustified, and immoral war.

Answer 9

or the homes that haven't been built in New Orleans, They have the superdome up and running with U2 (who by the way could probably build New Orleans with the money they have) singing there (oh joy..... not) but no homes for the people who live there. Doesn't make sense

Answer 10

No I don't think so. I think it would be better to send the homeless to Iraq to fight the war.