2022 is going to be an even worse year

 I can't wish you all a Happy New Year because I know what is in store for all of us. 

A lot has happened this past year.  Between the stolen election, the total plandemic fiasco, the supply chain quagmire and now inflation going thru the roof, it has just been a miserable year.

And our veterans at our Vets home have suffered greatly being put in house arrest for months at a time without even having any due process. No visitors, no family, orders to stay in their rooms for weeks at a time except when they had to go to the shower room. 

All for "their own good". Yeah, well the road to hell is paved with good intentions. 

And despite its failure to properly follow the chosen model, for the new Michigan veterans homes, which are modeled after those in Tennessee, the state did manage to get 2 new homes completed. One in Chesterfield and one in Grand Rapids, right next to what remains of the old home. 

The 3 part old home in Grand Rapids housed over 750 veterans. The 2 new homes will hold about 250, 1/3rd of what G.R. used to.  And we still have the DJ Jacobetti home in Marquette. ok, so that's about 400 total, out of about 900 before.  Big improvement in 5 years.. NOT! 

Now we get to look forward to a year of hyperinflation.  And a long drawn out election battle over election integrity, and the battle against the progressive policies that are slowly destroying our country from within.

We might see an end to some of it by years end. The new Michigan Veterans home at Grand Rapids might open up to regular visitors, along with the old home, The Grand Rapids Home for Veterans. Yes they call the 2 buildings different names.  I just call it the Vets home, old and new. 

Same lock downs, same problems, same restrictions, just different days. And some of the same old problem people still working at the home instead of being replaced by more qualified personnel that would do a much better job at taking care of our veterans. 

Still, here is hoping that this plan demic will end, and the Vets Homes will open up to regular walk in visitors who want to help, donate to, and visit our veterans.  In other words, going back to more normal circumstances.

Update: Just learned that the state spent 8 million building the new GR home, and only 1/4th of it has been certified as livable by residents. 1 pod (living area) out of 4 passed inspection, the other 3 still need repairs and certification. 

Overall population at the new and old homes in GR is less than 170 people with a staff of about 400 providing for them, and keeping the buildings and grounds kept up. WOW.  At one time there were over 750 people living at the G.R. home.

Jeff has passed on, 2 down 1 to go - maybe; where is Ken?

For those who remember the "selling of untaxed smokes" fiasco at the Veterans home, 3 guys were told that the state prosecutors office under Bill Schuette was going to let the home deal with that situation. The home responded by expelling 3 veterans. And Bill Schuette ended up prosecuting them anyways. This is in part, why he was NOT elected as Governor. He failed miserably as Attorney General.  

Ken, Jeff, and Tony updates The 3 guys involved who only wanted to help fellow veterans.

This place was the only safe place Tony knew. He found a place which was a private ran apartment complex next to the VA hospital in Battle Creek, but they had no support services and the nearest grocery store was 7 miles away.  The combined with lack of support from the VA, and their reducing his meds in huge steps instead of gradually reducing them, led him to drinking heavily to deal with his issues. They found him dead in his bed. 16 September 2018 which was 3 years ago. 

I just found out one other person Jeff, who was living in an assisted living home near Greenville has also passed. Jeff passed away some time in October or November.  Jeff liked to play mental games with people and I do not mean the good kind. Eventually everyone who tried to help him, gave up and he spent his last year with his fellow residents with no one to go check on him, or find out if he was doing ok. 

Ken, who ended up somewhere on the East Side of Michigan up by Tawas or in that part of the state, has not been heard from in years. Last time we saw him, he was in bad shape a year after he left the home. We have reason to believe he passed away last year.