Patty Murray’s press release about the GOP killing the Veterans Jobs Corps Act.
“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work. At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed, 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.
“But this vote is stark reminder that Senator McConnell 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.
“It’s unbelievable that even after more than a decade of war many Republicans still will not acknowledge that the treatment of our veterans is a cost of war. Today they voted down a fully paid for bill that included bipartisan ideas to put veterans in jobs that will allow them to serve their communities. Jobs that would have helped provide veterans with the self-esteem that is so critical to their successful transition home.
“Today Senate Republicans told the less than 1% of Americans who have spent the last decade serving and sacrificing for the other 99% of Americans that they are not willing to honor that sacrifice with new investments in their well-being when they return home.”
I hate that we went to war in Iraq. I hate that the war in Afghanistan is still going on (and I wasn’t happy with it from the beginning, although unlike Iraq, I understood the case for it). But as long as we decide to go to war, we’d damn well better make sure we do right by the people who fight it.
As a vet, Sen Murray has my eternal support for her decades long continuous fight to support those who fight and protect us.
In words that probably mean more to me than you, she does Yeoman’s work for veterans and our Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, and Guard.
Oh, thank-you Carl for posting this. In this state there are many vets and active duty personnel for whom this is a very, very real concern.
This is news.
Rethugs consider our veterans part of the 47%.
I asked Cap’n Crunch about this yesterday:
He, of course, refused to respond.
Can’t see why you have your panties in a bunch. Soldiers are merely self-elected employees like anybody else. See my op-Ed in the London Times.
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Link?
Oh thats right, You’re fulla shit.
So much for jobs being priority one.
So much for supporting the troops.
Republicans only goal is to defeat Democrats.