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Date:         Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:23:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortino1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: One more veterans day NVC
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Bottom line forks we are slowly loosing the freedom to choose and live.

-----Original Message----- >From: David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM> >Sent: Nov 12, 2007 1:55 PM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: One more veterans day NVC > >Sam: > >I am not disagreeing anything. It's more like a disblieve. >1/4 of whatever true or not , homeless is an issue the government >is unable to solve so far. Homeless vet is another VA is unable >to solve either. There are plenty of other serious issues of the >country that are not properly addressed. Health care is another >time bomb waiting to explode. > >I play classical guitar. Sometimes I imagined to use the skill to >beg (for money) in San Francisco and give the money to homeless >people around me who have no such skill to compete with me. But >I have a second thought now. I don't want to be jailed by Gavin >Newsom. > >My point is, the homeless issue (vet or not) need everyone's effort >to solve. It's almost impossible to replace the government. But I >am willing to do my share to make it change. > >David > > >--- Sam Conant <samcvt@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > >> Not sure what you are disagreeing with, or what you are asking in the last >> question >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Kao" <dtkao0205@yahoo.com> >> To: "Sam Conant" <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> >> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:09 PM >> Subject: Re: One more veterans day NVC >> >> >> >I don't believe the 1/4 figure. That's my opinion of course. I don't >> >believe VA >> > is not doing their job either. VA is too small to do the job. It takes >> > everyone >> > in the country to get it done right. Giving more resource to VA is not the >> > solution. >> > Every city, county and everyone needs to do something to solve the >> > homeless issue. >> > >> > 300,000,000 million? That must include the population we grow in space >> > somewhere. >> > On earth and America the number is 300,000,000 head. Am I wrong? >> > >> > David >> > >> > >> > --- Sam Conant <samcvt@COMCAST.NET> wrote: >> > >> >> That's a figure I don't know. I do know our national census is either >> >> nearing, at or beyond the >> >> 300,000,000 million level, and that something like 1% of our population >> >> is serving in our armed >> >> forces. >> >> >> >> I'm sure the VA has the data you asked about. >> >> >> >> SamC >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: Loren Busch >> >> To: Sam Conant >> >> Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com >> >> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:04 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] One more veterans day NVC >> >> >> >> >> >> And what percent of the population are vets? Stats on the homeless are >> >> meaningless without >> >> the full information. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 12, 2007 10:51 AM, Sam Conant < samcvt@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> I read the 1 in 4 yesterday in our state-wide (VT) Gannett paper, and >> >> heard >> >> in on one of the media "news" programs last evening. >> >> >> >> SamC >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > __________________________________________________ >> > Do You Yahoo!? >> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> > http://mail.yahoo.com >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com

Kind Regards, Joseph Fortino fortino1@earthlink.net yahoo mobile mail account: love2bike140@yahoo.com IM: love2bike1414@yahoo.com

Have a Great Day!


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