How the National Organization of Women's Agenda and Dozens of Congressional Laws Have Left Hundreds of Thousands of Men Homeless (sorry, long read)

Aavagadrro · 2011-10-24T22:44:13+00:00

I was homeless for over a year while on active duty in the USAF. The state took 68% of my gross based on a month where I was deployed, which ended up being 80% of my regular pay, including the non taxable allowances such as Basic Allowance for Housing/Sustenance (BAH/BAS). The non taxable allowances are subject to change with permanent change of station and other factors, so they arent supposed to be included.

They left me with less than the $900 the state of Nebraska law says they have to leave you with. As if $900 a month is enough to survive. If I lived on base, ate at the base dining facility, then I could live on $900 relatively easily, but above E4 in the AF you cant live in base housing unless you are married and have dependents living with you. You also lose the BAH when you live on base, and that was included in my gross where they decided on how much I had to pay.

I had orders to Korea, where I lose both BAS and BAH. For the entire year I was stationed there, I got $150-$200 twice a month after the state raped me. Out of that I had to pay for two storage units at the base I left, and was returning to, because I couldnt get my car stored on the Navy base, and to hold all my tools and household stuff because that couldnt be stored either. Usually it can, but they wont store certain things. So that was $200 right off the top, and there was no way I was going to pawn $10k+ worth of hand tools I had amassed in the previous 15 years.I also had to pay for my phone that I was required to have in my room. There was no way I was going to let that bitch win and force me to start over from absolutely nothing. Besides $200 doesnt amount to shit for making up the bills I had.

The house I owned prior to the divorce was foreclosed, I couldnt even make a $400 payment on it. I would have sold it but the house was in Nebraska, I was stationed in South Carolina, and her mother let her worthless brother live in it for free. While he was in there, he knocked holes in the walls, broke windows, and let his dog shit and piss on everything it didnt chew up. He also stole the refrigerator and oven I had bought for the house. There was no way I could afford to pay someone to clean it up, and only having 30 days leave possible while in Korea and not enough money for a plane ticket home from Seattle and back, it was beyond my means to do it myself.

When I returned to the states, my credit was beyond fucked with the foreclosure and the judge starting me out 6 months ($6k) in arrears on child support. Nobody would rent to me once they checked my credit. It was pretty good before that bitch decided to fuck anything that moved, took off with my kids, and had the state rape me for her. I lived on friends couches, slept in my car, slept at my duty section, and slept at the houses of women I met. It took me over a year to finally get an apartment, and the only reason I did was they didnt do credit checks. So it was a wonderful little pig stye in the middle of the North Charleston ghetto.

I told my supervisor and the Msgt in charge of my section, along with the First Sgt about what would happen to me financially in Korea. The First Sgt and Msgt thought I was trying to get out of it, but my security clearance depends on a good credit rating. My supervisor had a religious bias towards me, and even went so far as to accuse me of vandalizing his truck in the middle of the day, at work. I showed them everything, and explained what it would do to my clearance and my finances, and they just kept saying shit like "You will have a great time in Korea, you can go shopping" how the fuck can you go shopping with less than $100 to yourself every month?

When I got back from Korea, the Msgt and my supervisor were no longer in the AF, one was forcibly retired, the other separated right after reenlisting. The unit in Korea treated me great, and they were appalled that I was still sent over under those circumstances. They said I could go back if I wanted to, but I decided to stay and get my short tour over with. The house was already gone, and I didnt want to return to the unit that just fucked me over.

TL;DR: The state of Nebraska left me with $600 a month or less to live on, the USAF sent me to Korea where my house was foreclosed and my credit rating fucked, leaving me unable to find housing when I returned to the states.

matt_512 · 2011-10-24T18:13:43+00:00

I haven't ever seen the issue put in such clear terms. Bravo.

Anthony_Zarat · 2011-10-25T14:49:18+00:00

"239,759 of these are unsheltered (this number is estimated to be higher due to the difficulty of tracking unsheltered homeless)"

Keep in mind that the PIT (point in time) surveys for unsheltered homeless (91% of whom are men, not 83%) are done in mid January (usually January 15). This is the coldest time of the coldest month of the year, and any man who can find temporary shelter does so. Doing the PIT in January is a cheap feminist trick to artificially lower the PIT counts, so that these men are given fewer resources and protection.

2011-10-24T19:30:37+00:00

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Title	How the National Organization of Women's Agenda and Dozens of Congressional Laws Have Left Hundreds of Thousands of Men Homeless (sorry, long read)
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Date	October 24, 2011 1:09 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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