The Menial Jobs For Vets Program

	Duration: 00:57 minutes Upload Time: 07-01-22 22:39:36 User: marquisdejolie :::: Favorites
Description: A nonfiction video about a veterans homeless shelter in Inglewood, California where veterans pay for their crime of homelessness with community service and then are coerced into menial labor jobs to pay the shelter's rent.
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marquisdejolie ::: Favorites The mantra I've experienced is "Oh, the poor veterans. How can we make a buck off their misery while waving the flag proudly ?" "Unforgiving" is a kind euphemism for that kind of vampirism. 07-01-23 17:12:23 _____________________________________________________
foxalito ::: Favorites I guess pity is emotional self-indulgence masquerading a compassion. 07-01-24 13:00:06 _____________________________________________________
marquisdejolie ::: Favorites In L.A. at least, pity is financial opportunism masquerading as compassion. 07-01-24 22:27:00 _____________________________________________________
foxalito ::: Favorites This sort of scapegoating seems typical of the Anglo-American model: you here it here from our version of neo-con media, be it the homeless, the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the unemployed, the long-term sick to name but a few of the unfortunate - all the focus of vituperative rage: 'get 'em working sh*t jobs and stop the undesrving sponging off the state', it usually goes. 07-01-25 13:01:41 _____________________________________________________
marquisdejolie ::: Favorites But they forget to include getting the big corporations off the dole. Whoa!I haven't seen "vituperative" around for a while. 07-01-25 19:31:16 _____________________________________________________
foxalito ::: Favorites Mustn't have the UK's 'The Daily Mail' before, then! It's word that's suits the world view of its mean-spirited, largely petit-bourgeious readership! 07-01-26 08:14:36 _____________________________________________________
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foxalito ::: Favorites Don't the corporations bleed the people as well as sponge off the state? 07-01-26 08:15:47 _____________________________________________________
marquisdejolie ::: Favorites They do. 07-01-26 11:00:33 _____________________________________________________
rwgain02 ::: Favorites I'm a disabled vet with a Bachelor's in Management and can't "buy" a decent job. Support the troops, hire one. Resume, Letters of Recommendation, and References upon request: initialgateway(at)yahoo 07-04-26 04:03:48 _____________________________________________________
marquisdejolie ::: Favorites Support the troops: hire one. Absolutely. 07-04-26 17:01:33 _____________________________________________________