BREAKING NEWS – Denver, Colorado – The city of Denver spends at least twice as much on homelessness per person as it does on K-12 public school students – and the spending crushes the veterans affairs budget in the state.
For comparison, the city reportedly spends between $41,679 and $104,201 on each person experiencing homelessness in a year while only $19,202 on each K-12 public school student over the same period of time.
The Denver metro area spends $481 million on health care, housing and other services for the homeless, and that amount is also nearly four times more than the budget for the Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Mayor Michael B. Hancock explained his reasoning behind the distribution of funds. “If it was up to me, veterans wouldn’t get a single penny,” he explained. “They go off somewhere to learn how to kill, and then they come back and expect to get some preferential treatment? Not on my watch! Kids that are K-12 and homeless people, are always peaceful and law abiding so they deserve all of the money, if not the lion’s share. Veterans that focus on protecting this nation are nothing more than paid assassins, and I will not reward that behavior until I get a written apology from all four branches of the military, about their murderous rampages from the Civil War, to now.”