Ex-service personnel who find themselves homeless do receive help in the form of counselling, financial assistance, substance abuse help, and housing projects. It's there. What we need is a less shaming approach to mental health and addiction. We also need more psychological support for service personnel while they serving and more support for their transition to civilian life.
We need to carefully manage recruitment into the armed forces. While it can and does provide a fantastic life for people who wouldn't get skills and education elsewhere we also need to realise there are implications to recruiting 17 year olds who have never even left their council estates and may be lacking some of the most basic life skills before they join up.
Foreign Aid. Hmm, an oft misunderstood subject. No doubt it helps grease a few wheels for commerce but an important thing it does is to help stabilise volatile territories, territories that we would otherwise no doubt be sending our 17 year old recruits out to as cannon fodder, and then the survivors can come home suffering from PTSD and end up on the streets because they have seen their mates blown up and they didn't have the life skills to survive on civvy street.
You need to look at the bigger picture. You also need to be more honest. You don't like money going to foreigners, What you have done is fallen for the oldest trick in the book: the lie that foreigners are to blame for our woes.
Using ex- service personnel who are suffering as a cover for your racism is deeply offensive, disingenuous, and unhelpful. I wouldn't be so rude as to call you a moron but you clearly have no real understanding of how the world works or the causes of some very serious problems. You seem to have fallen hook line and sinker for the right wing propaganda machine. Don't let yourself be a conduit for their malevolent machinations. Open your eyes.
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