Homeless Aid Axed
Amazing, the compassionate wisdom shown by the Senate Armed Services Committee in adding a bit of “class” to our armed forces by canceling a $3.5-million appropriation (out of the $267-billion defense bill) for aid to the homeless near military facilities as “unaffordable” and “harmful to the national defense” (June 18)!
Not to worry; if our affluent citizens can get away with saying “not in our backyard,” why should not our defenders be required to follow suit? As that fine, upstanding citizen Ebenezer Scrooge said, “Are there not workhouses and orphanages?”
HORACE GAIMS
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