{"id":11002,"date":"2016-01-24T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2016-01-24T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:16:07","slug":"homeless-veteran-super-happy-people-paid-attention-to-him-on-facebook-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/24\/homeless-veteran-super-happy-people-paid-attention-to-him-on-facebook-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Veteran &#8220;Super Happy&#8221; People Paid Attention to him on Facebook For a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Speaking of caring about people other than so-called muslim Refugees\/Rapist\/Looters\/Freeloaders (in addition to Christian Refugees) here is one we can all add to our list: DISABLED VETERANS and HOMELESS VETERANS. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11003\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/vets.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"vets\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0During the height of debate over Syrian refugees,\u00a0attention briefly turned to\u00a0homeless veterans, making former Army Spc. and current refrigerator box tenant Micheal Schmidt \u201csuper happy that people finally cared about [him].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been homeless on the streets and begging for money for about a year and a half now,\u201d says Schmidt. \u201cBut it really felt great for a couple weeks to think \u2018all that is about to change.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the peak of\u00a0the refugee crisis in Europe and the debate within the United States over\u00a0granting displaced Syrians asylum, outcry against such asylum exploded on social media, led by people who suddenly discovered there are homeless veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see why we should let random foreigners come here to escape their problems when we have so many of our own,\u201d wrote\u00a0avid Facebook user Kesha Williams. \u201cDon\u2019t people know we have over a hundred thousand #HomelessVeterans?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who is fairly certain her tax payments\u00a0cover any and all of her charitable obligations, has not donated to homeless veterans yet. However, she says\u00a0she \u201cintends to give any spare food\u201d she has to one, if she happens across any while she is walking downtown with a bag of McDonald\u2019s in her hand, and \u201cas long as [she is] just about finished with it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite the complete lack of action\u00a0by any of the legion of\u00a0Americans using the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/homelessveterans\">#HomelessVeterans<\/a> hashtag on twitter, those same\u00a0veterans like Schmidt report growing satisfaction with their lives in a directly correlative proportion to hashtags used in their honor. As he prepares for the harsh Northwestern winter night, he wears a smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always knew someday I would amount to something. I just never realized it would be a pawn in a partisan, ad hominem attack on Syrian refugees. Tonight I fall asleep happy. Cold, abandoned, alone, and hungry \u2026 but happy,\u201d he said, before strolling off to beg.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4188-5220\">\u00a0Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2016\/01\/homeless-vet-happy-facebook-attention\/?utm_source=Duffel+Blog+Fans&amp;utm_campaign=3d82c95ef0-Duffel_Blog_Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6d392bc034-3d82c95ef0-23814417&amp;goal=0_6d392bc034-3d82c95ef0-23814417&amp;mc_cid=3d82c95ef0&amp;mc_eid=22936229f9\">Duffel Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-tags\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of caring about people other than so-called muslim Refugees\/Rapist\/Looters\/Freeloaders (in addition to Christian Refugees) here is one we can all add to our list: DISABLED VETERANS and HOMELESS VETERANS. -SF SEATTLE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0During the height of debate over Syrian refugees,\u00a0attention briefly turned to\u00a0homeless veterans, making former Army Spc. and current refrigerator box tenant Micheal Schmidt \u201csuper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,1911],"tags":[3993,4013,4014,4015],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}