Wrong on so-many levels!! Grr! It s people like you who don't respect the Vet, who by the way, has protected your right to type that paragraph! I dare you to go to the VA and spend just one day in the shoes of a Vet trying to get help. The U.S. Government made a promise to each and everyone who put their name on the dotted line - to take care of them for life! Please get off the Veteran rampage, as it takes an average of nine, yes I said nine, doctors for a Veteran to receive bennefits. I know, as I am a wife of a 100%  disabled Veteran, and can tell you the grief and aggervation Veteran's have to go thru. Go on, I dare ya. That man on the corner has a right. We may not care for the way he chooses to go "His" work everyday, but we will always have the poor with us. I find it hard to believe, that up here in Alaska the pan handlers are making so much money on a corner, that it affects our tax base. It could be You one day needing a hand.