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In an effort to employ veterans, U.S. President Barack Obama has requested $6 billion to fund a 2013 program that would allow for thousands of service members to be retrained as police officers, firefighters and park rangers.
U.S. President Barack Obama during the Jan. 2012, State of the Union Address.
This new veteran job initiative, recently highlighted in President Obama’s State of the Union Address, will launch in the next few weeks and Congress will be instrumental in moving the process forward. With plans to cut $500 billion in defense spending over the next decade and the Defense Department preparing to shed more than 100,000 troops in an effort to save money, it could be hard for lawmakers to justify this expenditure.
Obama has since gone on to say veterans’ skills and experience should make them valuable employees and every business should be competing to attract them. He has also stressed that veterans should have the opportunity to rebuild America, stating that roads and bridges in and around national parks are in need of repair.
Two hiring grant programs are being designed to boost public safety employee numbers, effectively increasing the police and firefighter jobs. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said nearly $500 million will be made available this year for departments that give hiring preference to post-Sept. 11 veterans.
The White House is counting on an extension of the Community Oriented Policing Services grant program, a $4 billion increase that would extend veterans-preference grants through 2013.
Under these new programs, veterans would also be able to find work as park rangers and visitor guides at national park lands, preservation specialists at historic sites, outreach workers at inner-city parks programs, and maintenance and construction contractors for public land improvements. The cost would be $1 billion, but would allow nearly 20,000 veterans to work in nationwide conservation programs for the next five years.
The initiative will also include an expansion of entrepreneurship training opportunities for active-duty troops and veterans, including a voluntary two-day seminar on small business start-ups for separating service members through the services’ transition assistance programs.
Under the plan, the Small Business Administration would offer an eight-week online training program teaching “the fundamentals of small business ownership” to 10,000 veterans annually, along with other entrepreneurial training tools for military spouses and veterans.
Administration officials said they are confident that lawmakers will support the efforts and make the necessary funding available this year.
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They cant even manage to pay me my Agent Orange Disability. It is like they are waiting for me to die
They spit on us…Now we have cry babies and want us to kiss there asses…
dont give-up you will get it….
Let’s face it they want all American veterans to die.
100,000 SOLDIERS AND A 6 BILLION DOLLAR PROGRAM WORKS OUT TO 6 MILLION PER MAN.WHY NOT YOU’VE ALREADY AVERAGED 3.6 MIL FOR THE JOBS YOU’VE CREATED.
And you proved publicly just how dumb you really are. 6 billion divided by 1 hundred thousand = Sixty thousand
There ya go- This fellow proved the old adage-you can either let people imagine you are stupid- or open your mouth and remove all doubt!
I hope that your not using a calculator cause you missed a lot of zeros. You don’t work for Obama do you?
And the people they keep in will be required to do extended deployments, advancements will be near zero, the VA will be even more overloaded, research programs will be almost non-existant, and the next time they need the military to help out, where will we be then.
As a veteran I was hired by the Department Veterans Affairs (DVA) to develop veterans casefiles. For two years I was treated like crap by non-military twenty-something managers & co-workers. When I finally quit, the union was nowhere to be found (they loved my monthly dues though). During the time I spent not taking a lunch, comming in early, leaving late (off the clock) I was lied to, kicked (literally), derided and excluded from any possibility of upward momentum or promotion – even though I had been a SrNCO while in the AF. My point is this, “IF” the GODDAMNED VA can’t take care of hiring a motivated, dedicated veteran….who the fuck will ? Please answer me THAT fucking question ! I feel as if I fucking WASTED 22 years of my life and am now expected to start over at ground-zero.
I cant begin to say how sorry I am that this has happened to you…but I will say “Thank you for your 22 years of sevice!” I am proud of your dedication and there are plenty of other fellow Vets that appreciate your years of sevice. It was not a waste, thanks again! Go to war with them and fight it, and keep after them…someone will hear! Are their bosses retired military, there has to be someone!
Know the feeling….been there
Once again the feederal government is out of touch with the private sector. I’ve been retired over 13 years and still have not gotten the dream job they keep saying are there for veterans. I went back to school and took 9 years to finish my Bachelors Degree and what for I still haven’t gotten an upper management position and all the Federal Job offerings still do not get you in the Government unless you know some one. So the point is “It’s not what you know; It’s who you know to get the position of a Lifetime.”
Retired and I’m working on my degree too! As Veterans I wish we could form our own network of retirees and create jobs for all of us. Use the government grants and start a business hiring and placing qualified vets to do everything this country needs just like we did in the service…
I’m replying to all soldiers coming from military backrounds, I was hurt in the ARMY,I have 2 combat tours, still am waiting for the VA to respond to my requests to no avail,trying to find work suteable to raise my family and take care of my kids is getting harder by the day. I know as soldiers we aren’t supposed to whine, but recently our house was robbed the dirt bags took everything of value, my poor son who’s only 7 what do I say to him? His dad fought for his freedom but can’t keep the bad guys out of our own home, I feel like I’m fighting a war all over again right here at home I wonder sometimes what the hell we fought for anyway. I know we volunteered but did we not do what was asked of us? I sometimes wonder when and where the end is? I’m not bitching, it just seems a little unfair!
ser i things so evray thingss …ok …but idownt no …waiting for me die ..soy niente …. salman …
I am a 100% disabled Vet. I have heart,kidney problems and PTSD. But the social security in Atlanta Ga has denied me my benefits for the last five years. I,m asking all veterans in the Ga area to write letters to their Congressmen and Senators to look into this . One day in all of lives it might happen to you or your family member. This is money you put in for your needs one day. Veterans I thank you for your help ,Letters and calls.
Support our troops….bring them home, care for the ill, give them jobs. Why are Republicans and Conservative Christians so against this?
Look, I am a fellow veteran too, and I know the programs are not perfect, maybe far from perfect, but I don’t think they’re worthless. I can’t believe the whining I am reading from all of you who are saying you are veterans! Was your service time a bed of roses? No! Did you adapt and overcome? Yes! Did you give years of your life and maybe even body? Yes! Should we be appreciated in some way? Of course, but no one forced us to join, we did it for our own reasons. Hopefully one of those reasons was for sacrifice for our family, citizens, and country. Do I think politicians all have a perfect solution to make everyone happy? Hell no! But who does? And we should all know it’s worse in other countries. What we have may be sad, but it’s better than what most have. We can complain how is sucks, which most will do, or use the tools we have been given and make something out of it. The spirit of a positive attitude that we’ve learned from the military should carry us much farther than this. Many of you are understandably bitter, but how does bitterness help the situation? Let’s show the world again in post-battle that we will fight for something worthwhile, the benefits of a veteran. This problem is also a battle, one we should continue to fight with honor and pride until we can gain some serious ground on our objectives. Sometimes these battles take a long time to win, we need to wear them down and show them we will never grow discouraged and quit trying. If there’s BS being given to us, don’t complain, DO something about it! Flood the politicians mailboxes, get on Facebook, make it public, etc. Politicians want to stay in office. Expose them if necessary. Ok, I will wait for your hated responses, but seriously, suck it up, drive on, and let’s find yet another way to win.
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If you believe Obama, i have beach front property in mesquite nevada i would like to sell you. Obama’s track record qualifies him as a used car salesman, that is what he is trying to sell to the citisens of this great country.
Anyone else notice that most of the so-called veteran employment opportunities are largely union based jobs?
Fuck em, I’ve been too 2 seperate Microsoft certified schools. I was told not just by the schools but by various other media sources not counting the federal labor statistics that programming was going to need more programmers, they outsourced it to India so now it appears the only ones that made out were the schools! I cant even begin paying back the school loan. again Fuck em!
What about Sgt. Bergdahl Missing in Action A POW reported alive and in captivity is anyone helping him?
As Americans in general we have been lied to by this President and congress. Again and again veterans from all eras are lied to by our own government.
The reality is Kissinger’s influence on our own government is evident that fighting men and women in the military were dumb and stupid to be used as pawns for congress and the wealthy is what Obama and his administration, Bush and his administration and others before them have said by their own actions or inability to act. 6 Billion is a joke compared to what the war has cost one American life is worth more to me and most real veterans than all of his money and BS. Our own government is more corrupt than the Roman empire and I personally feel that it’s time to get it back and bring law and order under control let freedom ring through Justice and Liberty for all of us yes even us veterans.
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