I read the letter from Scott Whittier, a disabled veteran from the Iraqi war, “Fighting my country,” (BDN, Nov. 26). Here is a man who fought for his country to protect these same people who are turning him down for help for his family. Do people realize how little these disabled veterans get for disability and how little a wife brings home from a part-time job at minimum wage?

On the front page of the same paper, it shows a picture of a $1 million renovated building with new furniture, new carpet, computers, plenty of free food, free heat and much more for women criminals at the Women’s Re-entry Center with a yearly cost to run it of $750,000 to $900,000.

What is wrong with this scenario? The government can’t help people who have little or no money survive, but we can help common criminals to a better life of leisure at no cost to them? People who have worked hard and tried to help themselves are put down when a hardship happens, but criminals, drug abusers, welfare abusers and people who just don’t want to work get all the help.

Carl N. Ripley

Stetson