LOPEZ: Trump wants to help out? - LA TIMES

Steve Lopez: Re: Your article today's Los Angeles Times: So Trump wants to solve homelessness in California? Here are five things he can do? Stop playing games with the citizens of Los Angeles. Who appointed you the "expert" on homelessness ... except yourself?

Stop lecturing the President of the United States about how he should be doing the job of the incompetent Mayor of Los Angeles. Nothing productive will happen toward ending homelessness in Los Angeles until Eric Garcetti resigns in the disgrace that he truly is. Nearly six years ago, Garcetti promised then First Lady Michelle Obama that he would end Veteran homelessness in Los Angeles by the end of 2015. It's 2020 and Los Angeles is still our nation's capital for homeless Veterans and he's still raking in billions-of-dollars to launder and squander under the illusion of ending homelessness in Los Angeles. Can't wait to see your falsified reporting that will glorify the supposed opening of "Camp Garcetti' on VA property -- an industrial tent with a couple of trailers that's taken 18 months and $5 million of taxpayer dollars to build -- and will only shelter 100 homeless Veterans -- while more than 4,000 homeless Veterans will remain on the dangerous streets of Los Angeles. Nearly 80 years ago, the Pentagon was built in 16 months and it's still the largest office building in the world with 40,000 employees. You shamefully aid and abet Garcetti in supporting Los Angeles as a sanctuary city protecting illegal aliens while disabled homeless Veterans who fought on your behalf are living on the sidewalk directly outside the National Veterans Home.

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Make no mistake: We need an immediate, emergency "Sanctuary Tent City" on this Federal VA property where the City of LA has a 12-acre, rent-free public dog park, in addition to the 3 1/2 acres the City now occupies fronting Wilshire Boulevard -- rent-free -- inside the VA to build a massive "sound wall" for a public subway while war-injured Veterans live homeless and hungry on a public sidewalk directly outside the VA. Recently, the County of LA illegally invaded this homeless encampment of Veteran fellowship and confiscated their personal property, dropped it into a dump truck and hauled it away. (PDF File) We've repeatedly and respectfully requested to the VA that these homeless Veterans be allowed to survive on the other side of the VA fence and have been repeatedly denied. We've also asked for just a couple of public-portable latrines to be installed for their humanitarian benefit, but were denied. Yet the City and County of Los Angeles can fritter away mega-millions of dollars that do absolutely nothing to help war-injured U.S. Military Veterans but will protect and prevent criminal illegal aliens being legally deported from whence they illegally came. In 2012, I sent letters to then President Obama and Congressman Waxman (PDF FLE) respectfully requesting a "State of Emergency" / "Homeless Veteran Humanitarian Relief Project" and they completely ignored it while Obama continued to mockingly parrot throughout his Presidency: “We’re not going to rest until every Veteran who has fought for America has a home in America.”

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Did I mention Los Angeles is still our nation's capital for homeless Veterans? Correspondingly, also attached herewith is the Old Veterans Guard's updated "State of Emergency" -- "Sanctuary Tent City" plan (PDF FILE). Of course we do not expect anything to be done in accordance with its formal intent, but we will watch with interest how certain ceremonious elements will be plagiarized by the VA and City of LA in their "Camp Garcetti" charade. Anytime you want to have an honest interview regarding the absolute Truth about Veteran homelessness in Los Angeles, the door remains open, just as it always has. Sincerely, Bob Rosebrock Director, Old Veterans Guard "Save Our Veterans Land" and "Bring Our Homeless Veterans HOME" God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!