Returning Vets face high unemployment

[get_involved]

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/november-11-2013/returning-vets-face-high-unemployment.html

Why is our government STILL bringing in 1.5 MILLION foreign workers a year? http://www.americanworker.org/

 

[g5000]

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/november-11-2013/returning-vets-face-high-unemployment.html

Why is our government STILL bringing in 1.5 MILLION foreign workers a year? Welcome to the Coalition for the Future American Worker

Your own link explains. To oversimplify: The vets do not have PhD's, the foreign workers do.

 

[ron4342]

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/november-11-2013/returning-vets-face-high-unemployment.html

Why is our government STILL bringing in 1.5 MILLION foreign workers a year? Welcome to the Coalition for the Future American Worker

It is a shame that republican jobs bill hasn't kicked in yet. Ohhh ......... That's right ........ The republicans only promised a jobs bill, they never managed to pass one. While who can blame them, after all they were busy voting to repeal ACA 41 times. They were probably to busy to get around to the jobs bill they promised back in 2010.
Oh, by the way, did you see where WalMart is running an ad promising a job to any vet who wants one. Terrific! They can get a low paying job with few benefits. That is not much of a thank you for what they were asked to do.

 

[Mr. H.]

 

[g5000]

If someone was provided a good technical trade from the military, they should have it made. After I retired, my resume was chock full of marketable skills and I was able to write my own ticket.

Unfortunately, many people do not pick up marketable skills while in the service. You have to achieve high test scores when you enter the military to even be offered the training for those skills.

The chief advantage a vet has, though, is that a vet is not a quitter. A vet is dependable. A vet shows up to work on time, every day. Snow won't stop him. Hurricanes won't stop him. Earthquakes won't stop him. Your whole company can fail to show up to work in the middle of really bad weather or disaster, and the vet will show up, wondering why the pussies couldn't make it in.

And a vet almost never calls in sick.

You give a vet a chance, you won't regret it.

 

[Mr. H.]

Plenty of jobs in the oil and gas industries. No opportunity necessary, no experience needed...

 

[edthecynic]

Gee, if only the GOP hadn't blocked the bill to help vets find jobs!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/veterans-jobs-bill-blocked-in-the-senate/?_r=0

September 19, 2012, 5:31 pm 95 Comments

Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion over five years to help veterans find work in their communities.
The measure, which would have potentially created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for.
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The bill was opposed, by, among others, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who said he believed the bill duplicated existing job programs for veterans that are not well run, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who has been seeking amendments on bills that would cut off funding to Egypt and to Pakistan until Pakistan freed Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,” Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader from Kentucky, and Senate Republicans “are willing to do absolutely anything to fulfill the pledge he made nearly two years ago to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
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The vote was met with a strong rebuke from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “Once again, this Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America’s heroes back to work,“ said Paul Rieckhoff, the organization’s founder. “Lowering veteran unemployment is something both parties should be able to agree on – even in an election year.”

 

[ron4342]

If someone was provided a good technical trade from the military, they should have it made. After I retired, my resume was chock full of marketable skills and I was able to write my own ticket.

Unfortunately, many people do not pick up marketable skills while in the service. You have to achieve high test scores when you enter the military to even be offered the training for those skills.

The chief advantage a vet has, though, is that a vet is not a quitter. A vet is dependable. A vet shows up to work on time, every day. Snow won't stop him. Hurricanes won't stop him. Earthquakes won't stop him. Your whole company can fail to show up to work in the middle of really bad weather or disaster, and the vet will show up, wondering why the pussies couldn't make it in.

And a vet almost never calls in sick.

You give a vet a chance, you won't regret it.

g5000, sadly there are not as many skills being taught in the military today as there were in the past. I had an uncle who served as in WW2. He was trained as a cook. Several years after getting out of the military he was able to open a successful restaurant. Today many of the jobs soldiers were trained to do have been farmed out to Haliburton and other companies. Unfortunately the only skill a lot of the vets will have when they return home is how to kill people as efficiently as possible.
Oh, and least you think I am attacking your post, I am not. The returning vets deserve much, much better than our government and country are offering them.

 

[Londoner]

Your source doesn't substantiate its claims. It is pure agenda-driven propaganda.

Eisenhower and Nixon put our veterans to work building infrastructure. Indeed, before the GOP was taken over by big money, your party believed that having government put veterans to work was not socialism. In fact, the infrastructure created by our veterans had an immense multiplier effect for commerce. But your party would rather die than put our veterans to work building infrastructure, especially if it would help the Obama employment numbers and the Obama economy. This is why your hatred of Obama wins out over everything else.

But it's funny what happens when you have the White House. For instance, Reagan increased the government work force during his recession so as to put more consumers in the economy, that is, workers are also consumers and they buy goods from main street so our small businesses don't have to layoff more workers. Because of sequestration and Republican filibustering, Obama was forced to radically shrink the size of the government workforce. You guys would rather destroy his economy than put veterans to work building roads, bridges, dams, and energy grids .... so our noble warriors could make a decent living and boost consumer spending in the aggregate, which would help combat the recession. Your war on America is working. If you destroy the economy, maybe Christie will win.

 

[Mr. H.]

Gee, if only the GOP hadn't blocked the bill to help vets find jobs!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/veterans-jobs-bill-blocked-in-the-senate/?_r=0

September 19, 2012, 5:31 pm 95 Comments

Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion over five years to help veterans find work in their communities.
The measure, which would have potentially created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for.
snip/
The bill was opposed, by, among others, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who said he believed the bill duplicated existing job programs for veterans that are not well run, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who has been seeking amendments on bills that would cut off funding to Egypt and to Pakistan until Pakistan freed Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,” Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader from Kentucky, and Senate Republicans “are willing to do absolutely anything to fulfill the pledge he made nearly two years ago to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
snip/
The vote was met with a strong rebuke from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “Once again, this Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America’s heroes back to work,“ said Paul Rieckhoff, the organization’s founder. “Lowering veteran unemployment is something both parties should be able to agree on – even in an election year.”

If I'm not mistaken, Democrats hold the majority in the Senate.

Who you gonna finger now?

You ignorant slut.

 

[Old Rocks]

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/november-11-2013/returning-vets-face-high-unemployment.html

Why is our government STILL bringing in 1.5 MILLION foreign workers a year? Welcome to the Coalition for the Future American Worker

Your own link explains. To oversimplify: The vets do not have PhD's, the foreign workers do.

There are not enough competant Millwrights and Electricians to meet the demand for those trades. But they require training, and the work is often dirty and dangerous. There are other trades in the same situation.

In the last two decades, the primary danger to production workers was outsourcing. Today, it is robo-sourcing. If the work is repetative, relatively simple, a machine can do it faster and better than a human.

Two things need to happen for our Vets. One, training in technical or professional disciplines on their return. Two, an economic climate that is not threatoned by a small cabal of far right wing anarchists call the Tea Party.

 

[Old Rocks]

Gee, if only the GOP hadn't blocked the bill to help vets find jobs!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/veterans-jobs-bill-blocked-in-the-senate/?_r=0

September 19, 2012, 5:31 pm 95 Comments

Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion over five years to help veterans find work in their communities.
The measure, which would have potentially created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for.
snip/
The bill was opposed, by, among others, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who said he believed the bill duplicated existing job programs for veterans that are not well run, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who has been seeking amendments on bills that would cut off funding to Egypt and to Pakistan until Pakistan freed Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,” Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader from Kentucky, and Senate Republicans “are willing to do absolutely anything to fulfill the pledge he made nearly two years ago to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
snip/
The vote was met with a strong rebuke from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “Once again, this Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America’s heroes back to work,“ said Paul Rieckhoff, the organization’s founder. “Lowering veteran unemployment is something both parties should be able to agree on – even in an election year.”

If I'm not mistaken, Democrats hold the majority in the Senate.

Who you gonna finger now?

You ignorant slut.

Mr. H. You know damned well that the GOP has been using the 60 rule to stop everything that they can. I for one wish the Dems would invoke the nuclear option and get things moving again.

 

[Iceman]

We need to impose a moratorium on all immigration and deport all illegals(along with locking down the border. America for Americans, American Jobs for American workers. Keep the third world in the third world.

 

[edthecynic]

Gee, if only the GOP hadn't blocked the bill to help vets find jobs!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/veterans-jobs-bill-blocked-in-the-senate/?_r=0

September 19, 2012, 5:31 pm 95 Comments

Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion over five years to help veterans find work in their communities.
The measure, which would have potentially created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for.
snip/
The bill was opposed, by, among others, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who said he believed the bill duplicated existing job programs for veterans that are not well run, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who has been seeking amendments on bills that would cut off funding to Egypt and to Pakistan until Pakistan freed Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,” Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader from Kentucky, and Senate Republicans “are willing to do absolutely anything to fulfill the pledge he made nearly two years ago to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
snip/
The vote was met with a strong rebuke from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “Once again, this Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America’s heroes back to work,“ said Paul Rieckhoff, the organization’s founder. “Lowering veteran unemployment is something both parties should be able to agree on – even in an election year.”

If I'm not mistaken, Democrats hold the majority in the Senate.

Who you gonna finger now?

You ignorant slut.

If you weren't so incredibly STUPID, or had at least read the link, you would know the GOP required 60 votes to bring the bill to a vote and it only got 58 votes.

 

[Mr. H.]

Gee, if only the GOP hadn't blocked the bill to help vets find jobs!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/veterans-jobs-bill-blocked-in-the-senate/?_r=0

September 19, 2012, 5:31 pm 95 Comments

Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion over five years to help veterans find work in their communities.
The measure, which would have potentially created jobs for up to 20,000 veterans, was blocked on a procedural point by Republicans, who argued that the bill was unpaid for.
snip/
The bill was opposed, by, among others, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, who said he believed the bill duplicated existing job programs for veterans that are not well run, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who has been seeking amendments on bills that would cut off funding to Egypt and to Pakistan until Pakistan freed Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work,” Ms. Murray said in a statement.
“At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed,” she said, “Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide for their families.”
She added that the vote was “stark reminder” that Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader from Kentucky, and Senate Republicans “are willing to do absolutely anything to fulfill the pledge he made nearly two years ago to defeat President Obama. It doesn’t matter who gets in their way or which Americans they have to sacrifice in that pursuit, even if it’s our nation’s veterans.”
snip/
The vote was met with a strong rebuke from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “Once again, this Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America’s heroes back to work,“ said Paul Rieckhoff, the organization’s founder. “Lowering veteran unemployment is something both parties should be able to agree on – even in an election year.”

If I'm not mistaken, Democrats hold the majority in the Senate.

Who you gonna finger now?

You ignorant slut.

If you weren't so incredibly STUPID, or had at least read the link, you would know the GOP required 60 votes to bring the bill to a vote and it only got 58 votes.

My apologies, ed. I really should show more respect around here...
MISTER slut.

 

[Moonglow]

I had high scores and was an anti-armor missile systems tech. When I got out and tried to get a job they mostly all told me that there were no missiles to fix here.

 

[Edgetho]

I had high scores and was an anti-armor missile systems tech. When I got out and tried to get a job they mostly all told me that there were no missiles to fix here.

IOW, you humped a Dragon or a Javelin......

Not a lot of call for that in Civilian life. Maybe humping block. Driving nails, whatever.

I was Infantry. "Sorry GI. We don't need anybody shot today. Have a nice heart attack."

Especially after Viet Nam. We were all baby-killers, drug addicts and insane.

How many movies have you ever seen where a character portrayed as Vietnam Vet was shown in a positive light?

Not until 'Rambo' and he was actually portrayed as a nutcase.

'Nam Vets still get a bad rap in Hollywood. But not to worry, Hanoi Jane was just gushed over by an obama regime official.

And what kind of fucking idiot joins the side that HATES them?

You, I guess

 

[AquaAthena]

Starbucks announced it would be hiring thousands of veterans??? Walmart, too.

November 11, 2013

Last week, Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced a new commitment to veterans with the goal of hiring at least 10,000 in the next five years, with a career development strategy that will help match transferable skill sets of veterans and their spouses to openings within the company.


Wal-Mart Stores Inc., one of the nation’s largest private employers of veterans, surpassed its goal of hiring 20,000 veterans as of Monday’s Veteran’s Day holiday since launching a new hiring effort six months ago, with 48 veterans that have been hired in Hawaii alone as a result.

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) calls it “Veterans Welcome Home Commitment,” and the company pledges to hire any honorably discharged veteran within the first year off active duty, with the goal of hiring 100,000 veterans at Walmart stores in the next five years.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2013/11/11/walmart-starbucks-take-lead-in-hiring.html

 

[Edgetho]

This is the mindset that infests the White House:

UN Ambassador Samantha Power Starstruck by Jane Fonda

In case you were wondering what type of individuals are running the country . . .

UN Ambassador Samantha Power this week gushed over meeting leftist activist actress Jane Fonda, known as “Hanoi Jane” for trekking to North Vietnam to cavort with the enemy during the Vietnam War. While there, Fonda posed with Viet Cong soldiers at a missile battery used to, you know, kill Americans.

Power exulted in both the coolness of the moment and Fonda’s political activism, according to Fox News.

“Hi everybody,” Power said, according to a transcript. “You know life has changed when you’re hanging out with Jane Fonda backstage. There is no greater embodiment of being outspoken on behalf of what you believe in — and being ‘all in’ in every way — than Jane Fonda. And it’s a huge honor just to even briefly have shared the stage with her.

I don’t know. I liked Fonda in Klute. But really, we have the UN ambassador beside herself over a woman who betrayed our troops?

This is the mindset of the administration. It’s the left wing professors you had in college. It’s the movie stars spouting dreamy nonsense about peace, love and understanding. It’s the enraged activist ranting like a deranged pachyderm against the rich. That’s who’s in charge.

Scary? I’ll give you something scarier.

They were elected by American voters, fair and square. Twice.

^^The people dimocrap scum 'gush' over^^

And if you vote for dimocrap scum, you're a scumbag too.

Period

 

[Moonglow]

I had high scores and was an anti-armor missile systems tech. When I got out and tried to get a job they mostly all told me that there were no missiles to fix here.

IOW, you humped a Dragon or a Javelin......

Not a lot of call for that in Civilian life. Maybe humping block. Driving nails, whatever.

I was Infantry. "Sorry GI. We don't need anybody shot today. Have a nice heart attack."

Especially after Viet Nam. We were all baby-killers, drug addicts and insane.

How many movies have you ever seen where a character portrayed as Vietnam Vet was shown in a positive light?

Not until 'Rambo' and he was actually portrayed as a nutcase.

'Nam Vets still get a bad rap in Hollywood. But not to worry, Hanoi Jane was just gushed over by an obama regime official.

And what kind of fucking idiot joins the side that HATES them?

You, I guess

Conservatives hate the sight of me, the hate after Nam died during Desert storm.
I fixed TOW/Dragons.
My family has a proud tradition of serving in the military since the revolution, I too have sent my kids to military service to be good citizens.