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A charity group donated 1,600 pounds of processed deer meat to local shelters across the state. The state refuses to allow homeless people to eat the meat. Instead of returning the meat to the charity, government workers ripped open the packages, put them in a dumpster, and poured bleach on the meat. ~ mami http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/health-dept-homeless-cant-eat-deer-meat.html — at Coalition For The Homeless. please give if you can $5,$10,or $25 to help us support the many who have no were else to turn paypal

HOMELESSNESS in USA

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Homeless Fill America's Streets

The number of homeless people in the U.S. remained steady last year, underscoring just how much work needs to be done to actually lower the number of people living on the streets. According to a recent Housing and Urban Development report, an estimated 633,782 people are homeless in the U.S. When the agency conducted its homeless count in 2011, it found that 636,000 were living on the streets and in shelters, the Associated Press reports. While the report contains some more heartening figures -- for example, the number of homeless veterans dropped by about 7 percent from the year before -- advocates aren't hopeful veteran homelessness will be eliminated by 2015, as the Obama administration projects. To help empower homeless people, and bring an end to homelessness, consider getting involved in the following advocacy initiatives: 1. Bring Comfort To Homeless KidsWhat about America's Homeless Children?: Hide and Seek by Shane, Paul (Google Affiliate Ad) To offer homeless children the comforts every young kid deserves at bedtime, Project Night Night fills up totes with a cozy blanket, a children's book and a stuffed animal. The 25,000 care packages the nonprofit doles out each year aim to ease the psychological trauma homeless children suffer, while also promoting reading and family bonding. Find out how you can get involved with Project Night Night here. 2. Feed Homeless PetsSave Homeless Animals T-Shirt (Google Affiliate Ad) An estimated 5 to 10 percent of homeless people keep cats or dogs, which many rely on for companionship and protection. To help those who are struggling to find shelter and food for themselves, and their furry best friends, consider getting involved with Pets of the Homeless. This nonprofit brings pet food and veterinary care to those in need. Find out how you can pitch in or make a monetary donationhere. 3. Help Homeless Vets In its continued effort to end veteran homelessness by 2015, the Department of Veteran Affairs pledged $100 million in grants in July to local organizations nationwide that aid low-income veterans and their families. One nonprofit that’s helping to empower former servicemen and servicewomen is U.S. Vets, an organization that in the course of one year helped 3,000 veterans find housing and more than 1,000 veterans obtain full-time employment. Find out how you can get involved with U.S. Vets here. 4. Give Homeless People A VoiceNo Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Newman, Kat (Google Affiliate Ad) To put a face to the plight of the homeless in this country, video blog Invisible People documents the day-to-day struggles that come from living without shelter. Founder Mark Horvath, who once lived on the streets of California, aims to use his storytelling platform to make homeless people visible and inspire advocates to take action. Find out how you can get involved here. 5. Get The Government Involved The National Coalition for the Homeless provides advocacy programs and pushes public policy initiatives with the goal of ending homelessness and protecting homeless people’s rights. The organization's main policy focus is its Bring America Home Act, which would serve as the federal government’s first comprehensive response to the causes and consequences of homelessness. Freedom of Speech by Ditchfield, Christin [Paperback] (Google Affiliate Ad) American Government and Politics Today (2011-2012 Edition) by Schmidt, (Google Affiliate Ad)The Impact of Local Government Modernisation Policies on Local Budgeti (Google Affiliate Ad)
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Is Fatherhood Being Killed so the State Can Play God?

If Fathers are Removed From Society, How Can Anyone Understand Authority? Is Fatherhood Being Killed so the State Can Play God?

Is there a master plan for the subjugation of the human race? If so, it must perforce include a strategy for the removal of the single most influential figure in history—the Father. Complete sabotage of families and marriage would also be necessary to pull off this coup. From a purely secular standpoint, the health of a society can be measured by the vitality of fatherhood, according to relevant statistics. More importantly, the health of a society can be best measured from its ability to grasp the concept of God, the Father. For example, a society which merely accepts the God concept without differentiating between the elements of the Trinity is devolving towards paganism. But who would desire such a purge?

Kelty Cosmic 0 Degree Down Sleeping Bag Long In Size: Right Zipper (Google Affiliate Ad) Trenchantly, Jim Sheridan—director of the academy-award-winning “In the Name of the Father”—once stated, “If you want to destroy a society, remove the fathers.” The presence and activity of dads in a culture is so important that they cannot be removed without precipitating collapse, according to David Popenoe in Fathers, Marriage, and Children in American Society. Statistics clearly illustrate this claim. America is now increasingly fatherless. Popular sentiment, along with social engineering, academic pseudo-scholarship, and religious heresy all add to an unprecedented assault upon marriage and fatherhood. From a biblical viewpoint, this assault on the Father is a challenge upon the very structure of the universe and creation—whereas the Father initiated creation, carried out by His Son and Spirit. Marriage, as a symbol of the relationship between Christ and His Church, is made superfluous when Christianity no longer sets the mores of a society—as has evolved in America today.

The New York Times recently reported that 50% of American children born to women 30 and under, are now out-of-wedlock. From a practical viewpoint, a world without fathers is rudderless, lacking principled leadership, at the whim of every passing fancy of the academy or elites. More ominously, such a society must be directed by a power-driven political cabal, where government becomes the head of every home, and political doctrines take the place of creed and code. Such a land will be a tyranny, where humans are merely pawns in the machinations of the deified state. I. Fatherhood Assassinated

Children, by definition, are vulnerable. They must receive defense from within the family unit, or they become extreme risks to predators and lack of instruction. The nuclear family contains a default structure designed to protect, feed, educate, motivate and enable children to successfully move into the adult world. This default structure was traditionally implemented by the parents, directed by the father. This structure has operated successfully since time immemorial. Recently, though, fatherhood has come under tremendous scrutiny and the entire premise of masculine, leadership has been rejected by many elites. In fact, it is the political and scientific opinion of many that masculinity has had a negative impact on the evolution of mankind. And so the institution of fatherhood has been systematically singled out for destruction. Popenoe then explains how being a dad has been trashed in our culture: Mountain Hardwear Phantom 32 Degree Sleeping Bag (Google Affiliate Ad) FATHERHOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

The end result of the many cultural, social, and economic trends we have discussed is a society surprisingly unsupportive of fatherhood. Indeed, if one were specifically to design a culture and a social system for the express purpose of undercutting fatherhood and men’s contribution to family life, our current society would be close to what would result. Consider the following key elements one would want to incorporate: 1.Make marriage into a very weak institution.. 2.Sexualize the society. 3.Institute an educational system that disregards the fact that childrearing is a major adult responsibility and that marriage is important in childrearing. 4.Have an education system that does not recognize worker’s family responsibilities and that stresses ever-increasing material consumption. 5.Develop a culture that heavily stresses individualism. 6.In social discourse, through the media, and in the design of the built environment, deemphasize the importance of children to the continuation of society. 7.Overlook the importance of fathering when discussing male gender roles. 8.When fathering is discussed, don’t mention that fathers are unique and irreplaceable as protectors, challengers, disciplinarians and guides.¬† If no person can be conceived without the work of a father, why does modern society insist on pretending fathers are irrelevant? Further, in a society where masculinity is regularly trashed, what generic definition and value does fatherhood hold? In a world of maternal values, doesn’t the entire list of positive masculine traits get tossed in the trash? So if fatherhood has been murdered, who killed it and why? II. Effects of Fatherlessness

Marmot Arroyo 30 Degree Down Sleeping Bag Long In Size: Right Zipper (Google Affiliate Ad) A. Search for Identity According to Guy Corneau, in Absent Fathers, Lost Sons—one of the most predictable and disturbing effects of fatherless sons is the lack of a strong male identity. Corneau writes,

Sons who have not been given adequate fathering are often faced with the following problems: in their teenage years they experience confusion about their sexual identity and adopt feminine types of behavior; their sense of self-esteem is unsteady; they repress their aggression, their ambition and their inquisitiveness. Some of them may suffer inhibitions as regards their sexuality. They may also exhibit learning problems. They have trouble respecting moral values and accepting responsibilities; they have little sense of duty or obligation to others. Their insufficient internal structure results in a certain laxity, a lack of rigor, a general inability to organize their lives effectively. In addition, research shows they are more likely to be homosexuals than are boys whose fathers are sufficiently present. Inadequately fathered sons are also more likely to develop psychological problems that manifest as juvenile delinquency and abuse of drugs and alcohol. All such behaviors are rooted in deep revolt against patriarchal society. The revolt mirrors to the father the consequences of his absence. B. Homosexual Genesis?

Mountain Hardwear Pinole 20 Degree Sleeping Bag Regular In Size: (Google Affiliate Ad) As mentioned by Corneau, much research indicates that the lack of a male role model for boys is a source of homosexual orientation. In fact, no hard science has ever been delivered to prove individuals are born homosexual. Instead, the cause appears to be environmental, especially as regards the relationship with their father, for gay males. Irving Bieber believed homosexuality was caused by a too-close mother and a too-distant father: Bieber believed that a “constructive, supportive, warmly related father precludes the possibility of a homosexual son; he acts as a neutralizing, protective agent should the mother make seductive or close-binding attempts.” Not surprisingly, the shattering experience of child sexual abuse can lead some to homosexual orientation, according to one source, which described a study on AIDS:

Marmot Trestles 0 Degree Sleeping Bag In Size: Left Zipper (Google Affiliate Ad) The study lasted for four years and included a total of 4244 men. To ascertain if an individual had a history of childhood sexual abuse they were asked on entry to the study to say if they had had a sexual experience before the age of 13 with an individual five years or more older than themselves; and/or if they had a sexual experience between the ages of 13 and 17 with an individual who was ten or more years older. Of the 4244 individuals in the study, 1686 (40%) reported childhood sexual abuse. There were 258 HIV infections during the course of the study, a rate of 2.1 per 100 person years. While the cause of homosexuality is bound to be long debated, an unusual set of statistics have emerged from the coming trend towards adoption for gay couples. The statistics show that homosexual parenting appears to lead to a ten-to-twenty times increase in their children living as an adult homosexual. So for instance, while about 3% of Americans identify as gay—35% of the kids of gay male couples will live as homosexual; whereas almost 60% of the children of lesbians live as adult homosexuals. C. A World Without Private Human Authority

The North Face Snow Leopard 0 Degree Sleeping Bag Regular In Size: (Google Affiliate Ad) Some point out it is a tenet of Marxism that all individual authority, especially that of the family and religion, must be sacrificed so the state can be built up. For example, the leftist Nazis viewed procreation as the concern of the state. A statement putting 45 Goals of Communism into the US Congressional record in 1963 would seem to verify the need for the family to be controlled. Here are a few: Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FL. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. (Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963) What better way for state power to be established than for the American family to simply be dismembered? Augason Farms Hard Red Wheat - 18 Pails - Emergency Food Storage A La (Google Affiliate Ad) III. Marriage, Out-of-Wedlock Births & Divorce

Popenoe points out the two main reasons for fatherless children are the very high rate of divorce, and the growing trend of out-of-wedlock births. For example, in the African American community, chances are around 93% that children will grow up without a father for at least part of their childhood. Sadly, studies show that most fathers lose contact with their children after divorce, as men strongly connect childrearing with cohabiting with the mother. And most children with divorced fathers will eventually have no contact with their natural fathers. In fact, 60% of fathers never see their children after divorce, or just a few times a year. And most dads never pay any bills beyond their child support, which averages a paltry $3,155 a year. Nonmarital births and adoptions add to the statistics of the fatherless. These are children who will probably never know their fathers. When even celebrity “conservatives” like Laura Ingraham adopt children as unmarried parents, you know the problem is out of hand.

Cohabitation is not the panacea some believe, either. Interestingly, Jay Teachman’s study of the number of sexual partners and risk for divorce showed a high correlation for a lower number of partners and marital success. For example, virgin brides had very low divorce rates: “women who are sexually active prior to marriage faced considerably higher risk of marital disruption than women who were virgin brides.” But cohabitation is a negative way to test a potential spouse: Augason Farms Emergency Food Storage All-in-One Pails Kit - 1 Year - (Google Affiliate Ad) In fact, Professor Jay Teachman explains that one of the most “robust predictors of marital dissolution that has appeared in the literature” is cohabitation itself, making living together actually one of the worst things you can do for your marriage, rather than something to help it. IV. Attack on Fathers as Revolt Against God

Augason Farms Emergency Food Storage Kit - 1 year - 1 person - (Google Affiliate Ad) Briefly, if one views the Father as an essential element of the Christian godhead—as Christ apparently did when he delivered the Lord’s Prayer: Our Father Who Art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name…(Matthew 6:9-13)—then to attack Fatherhood is to reject God. This is certainly occurring as the same critics lambasting fathers are also furious rejecters of the biblical way. Eric Voegelin, in Science, Politics & Gnosticism, trenchantly pointed out that the assault against God described by Nietzsche was really just an attempt to bury mankind’s sins by deicide, or killing God: The madman is therefore looking for man, but not the man of the philosopher: he is looking for the being that springs from the magic of the murder of God…Man cannot transform himself into a superman: the attempt to create a superman is an attempt to murder man. Historically, the murder of God is not followed by the superman, but by the murder of man… Conclusion

The Ready Project Deluxe Emergency Food Storage Kit - 1 year - 1 (Google Affiliate Ad) If fathers have to be removed before a tyranny is established, America is well on the way. Note the following statistics to understand what grave danger America now is in regarding the loss of fathers. To reject fathers is to reject our historic Western approach to life. What follows can only be the bloodbath of liberty first, followed by humans, later. Post-Script: Statistics of the Fatherless

Augason Farms Emergency Food Storage Kit - 1 year - 4 people - (Google Affiliate Ad) A. Poverty: Children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be poor. In 2002, 7.8% of children in married-couple families were living in poverty, compared to 38.4% of children in mother-only household families. During the year before their babies were born, 43% of unmarried mothers received welfare or food stamps, 21% received some type of housing subsidy, and 9% received another type of government transfer (unemployment insurance etc.). For women who have another child, the proportion who receives welfare or food stamps rises to 54%. A child with a nonresident father is 54 percent more likely to be poorer than his or her father.

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•63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes, 5 times the average. •90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes, 32 times the average. •85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes; 20 times the average; •80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes, 14 times the average; •71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes, 9 times the average; •75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes, 10 times the average; •70% of youths in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes, 9 times the average; •85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homes, 20 times the average. Augason Farms Emergency Food Storage Kit - 30 day - 1 person - Black (Google Affiliate Ad) D. More Statistics:

•Adolescents from single-parent families engage in greater and earlier sexual activity. •Fatherless children are at much higher risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality. •Most abused children come from fatherless homes; only 1/3 abused kids lived with both biological parents. •50% of child abuse cases are committed by single mothers. •Fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide.. •Fatherless boys have much more trouble establishing appropriate sex roles and gender identity. •80% of youth psychiatric patients are from fatherless homes. •Fatherless children are less cooperative and score lower on IQ tests. •Fatherless kids exhibit significantly more conduct problems, and daughters have higher rates of anxiety or depression. •“Father hunger” often afflicts boys age 1-2 whose fathers are suddenly and permanently absent. Sleep disturbances, nightmares/ night terrors frequently begin within one to three months after the father leaves home. •Children of never-married mothers are more than twice as likely to have been treated for an emotional or behavioral problem. •Fatherless children are more likely to have been expelled or suspended from school, to display emotional problems, and to engage in antisocial behavior. •Researchers observed “greater levels of aggression in boys from mother-only households than from boys in mother-father households.” •80% of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from broken homes. •Violent school kids are 11 times more likely to live without their fathers and six times more likely to have unmarried parents. •43% of prison inmates are fatherless; 14% lived in households without either biological parent; and 14% spent some of their childhood in a foster home, agency or other juvenile institution. •72% of adolescent murderers grew up without fathers; 60% of America’s rapists grew up the same way. •Only 13% of juvenile delinquents come from families in which the biological mother and father are married to each other. By contract, 33% have parents who are either divorced or separated and 44% have parents who were never married. •Fatherless teenage boys are more likely to be incarcerated for delinquent offenses and also manifest worse conduct while incarcerated. •70% of juveniles in state reform institutions grew up fatherless. •Fatherless males engage in twice as much criminal activity, which triples if their neighborhood has a high concentration of single-parent families.

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Homeless vets more likely to die on the streets

Homeless vets more likely to die on the streets

A new study reveals that while veterans represent only 9 percent of the population nationwide, 15.2 percent of America’s homeless have served their country — and when compared to non-veterans, they are much more likely to die on the streets. The 100,000 Homeless Campaign published the results of their latest study on Tuesday, the pages of which document the findings from the organization’s survey of 23,000 homeless people across the country. While the analysis in the pages of the report go into detail on the homeless situation affecting America in general, this particular edition also dives deep into discussing how series of a problems homelessness is with American veterans.

Urban survival packs Most alarming perhaps is that veterans are 11 percentage points more likely to develop life-threatening diseases and die while on the streets when compared with others. The strife suffered by veterans is evident across the board too, with the study revealing that when compared to non-vets, they on average are without homes for longer, are older and suffer from multiple illnesses, both mental and physical. In the closing of their report, the author explicitly states, "Men and women who risked their lives defending America may be far more likely to die on its streets.”

Emergency Food  Year The report notes that the amount of time veterans spent during military operations will be revisited in length eight or nine times over back home, but sadly suffered on the streets of America. Volunteers quizzed 23,000 homeless — veterans and non — in 47 communities to get their statistics, which reveal that 62 percent of those that served have been on the streets for longer than two years, 53 percent suffered from a mental condition, 76 percent had issues with substance and abuse and nearly a quarter of the veterans polled were afflicted with all three. More than one-in-five said that they had received medical treatment in an ER or inpatient care facility more than three times in the 12 months prior to the study.

On average, the homeless veteran who has been on the street for more than two years has been in that situation for nearly triples that length; in those instances, the average tenure is nine years.

Survival packs Aside from serious health issues, veterans are plagued with sickening unemployment statistics when they return home as well. “They are coming home to a disproportionate rate of homelessness, of foreclosures and evictions. In 2010 a whopping 75,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United States were homeless; were sleeping on the streets,” Iraq war veteran Michael Prysner tells RT. “They are coming home to an unemployment rate of about 30 percent for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. This is triple the national average.” Accounting for veterans of all American wars, the latest statistics courtesy of the White House show that the number of all homeless in the US accounts to nearly 900,000.

For those on the street that aren’t afflicted with serious medical issues, their only help often comes from confines where they are among those that are. “When you come home, you’re foreclosed on, your job is gone, and then they want you to go to shelters. And shelters pretty much housing criminals, drug addicts, and a lot of us can’t tolerate that lifestyle,” homeless U.S. army veteran Joe Mangione tells RT.

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The Great American Tragedy: Homelessness Among Our Veterans

The Great American Tragedy: Homelessness Among Our Veterans

VA Nursing Homes and Veterans Benefits An article in USA Today reports that on a given night, more than 75,000 veterans (male and female) are living homeless on the streets of their cities. Nearly half (40%) of all homeless males are veterans. The homeless are often looked down upon in American society. They are often seen as lowly beggars, leeching off of the system. The true tragedy is when we see our brave, courageous, strong soldiers fall to homelessness. What we often don't understand is what would cause our protectors, our soldiers, to give up on ambition and dreams to live an unfulfilled life on the corner of Main Street. We don't understand this because we will never know, as our soldiers did, the trauma of war.

Veterans have to deal with high rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and often may have traumatic brain injuries or sexual trauma. Due to their experiences in war, Veterans may often want to be secluded and are more likely to live unsheltered and outdoors. According to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Veterans are also most likely to experience long-term, chronic homelessness.

Generally, a homeless person is expected to have not graduated from high school, but studies show that 85% of homeless veterans have completed high school or received a GED. On the other hand, only 56% of non-veteran homeless have completed high school. Furthermore, our homeless veterans were not necessarily the 'problem soldiers' in the army. Eighty-nine percent of homeless veterans received Honorable Discharges and 67% served in the military for three or more years.

These men and woman risked their lives for our country. They gave of their time and their service honorably and without question. And now, nearly half of them are living alone on the streets, not knowing how to get the help they deserve. When faced with these statistics, most peoples' attention immediately turns to the government. They ask questions like "Why would the government allow their own veterans to suffer and beg on the streets?" and "Why has our government failed to help our homeless veterans?"

We may not currently see a large impact from government programs, but they are there, and they are helping. Our government cares about our veterans and so does our President. In 2011, President Obama set the goal to end chronic homelessness among veterans by 2015. When he set his goal, Obama implemented the plan entitled Opening Doors. Opening Doors is a federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness within five years.

Opening Doors implements five points. The first is to provide affordable housing to veterans and then second to provide permanent supportive housing. Supportive housing is shown to be a most affective bridge between homelessness and independent housing. A study was conducted as part of the Federal Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic-Homelessness, and it concluded that 95% of the participants were in independent housing after one year in a permanent supportive housing arrangement.

The third point is to increase meaningful and sustainable employment. It is important that the job a veteran receives matches his/her skills so that they feel their work is meaningful and that they are needed to remain in the job for a long period of time. The fourth point is to reduce financial vulnerability by enhancing information, reducing barriers, and improving access to services. This point emphasizes making homeless veterans aware of the government programs available to help them.

The fifth and final point is to transform the homeless crisis response system. This is the point at which the government transfers its burden to the community. There needs to be a quicker response to homeless veterans showing up in a city. People need to take notice and spread the word to these veterans about the help that is available to them. The community also needs to be involved with re-housing. The veteran will feel a greater connection to the community reaching out to them rather than the government. Government programs are fantastic, and they are helping many veterans, but according to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, the VA Department of the United States is only able to serve about 25% of the veterans in need. This would leave approximately 300,000 veterans each year who are left to seek help elsewhere. When the government's reach cannot go any farther, the community has an obligation to step in.

These 300,000 veterans who are not able to receive help from the VA will turn to local government agencies and volunteer organizations. They will turn to their community for help. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans states that the most effective programs are "community-based, nonprofit, 'veterans helping veterans' groups." The community and the individual within that community has a chance to help decrease the amount of homeless veterans. Our veterans gave their all for our country; it's time that we take a moment to give back to them. The largest problem is a lack of information. In this area, community outreach can make a big impact on the amount of homeless veterans that are receiving help. Many veterans seclude themselves. According to a study of homeless veterans, 96% of them are alone rather than part of or near family. They don't have anyone else, and many of them have no idea that there is so much help available for them. Beyond government programs, there are countless volunteer organizations and also local government agencies. It is the responsibility of the individuals within a community to help spread the word of relief to the veterans who are currently without family and without a home. You can find more information on the government's plan to end veteran homelessness as well as information on what you can do to help the homeless veterans in your community by following this link: please give if you can $5,$10,or $25 to help us support the many who have no were else to turn paypal