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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/09/military-veterans-job-corps-act-senate-091912w/?fb_comment_id=fbc_444503088935699_4872629_444531058932902#fc9edd06081fba

The Veterans Job Corps Act died in the Senate Wednesday on a procedural vote when 40 senators balked at the $1 billion price tag for a measure that would have provided employment for veterans in conservation work, in Veterans Affairs Department cemeteries, and helped in police and fire departments.

Supporters needed 60 votes and got only 58 to overcome an objection by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., that the $1 billion in costs, although paid for through budgetary gimmicks, would have pushed VA over the spending limits set by last year’s Budget Control Act.

The vote brought an early end to a measure that was already likely to fail. While the bill was a top priority of President Obama and many veterans’ organizations, the House of Representatives had no plans to take it up for consideration this year.

As a current soldier, this makes my blood boil, just found out about this bill being killed by 4 Republicans who had parts in writing the bill, decide to note vote for it because it would add $1 billion to the Dept of VA Budget.

Quick note: We spend about $1 billion every week in Afghanistan. I really am beginning to hate Republicans overall as a party.

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The cost of our veterans health should be the number one priority when considering going to war. Our Vets shouldn't need private groups or charity to get health care. It's bull**** and pathetic.

We have veterans starving and freezing in our streets. A lot of them because of mental disabilities they suffered directly from the war.

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I hate to say it, but by and large, elected Republicans do not support the troops. They support the military industry and to a lesser extent the Pentagon, but they have shown time and again that they don't support the troops themselves. I spent five years volunteering with a group that worked with military hospitals and got to see too much first hand during the hotter parts of the war about what our soldiers, marines, sailors, and reserve went without. It was depressing.

This is just another example. More, it really demonstrates again how political games matter more to Republicans than helping people including Vets. They do not want Obama getting any credit for something like this. They'd rather kill it than do good regardless of their stated reasons for fighting the bill.

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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/09/military-veterans-job-corps-act-senate-091912w/?fb_comment_id=fbc_444503088935699_4872629_444531058932902#fc9edd06081fba

Quick note: We spend about $1 billion every week in Afghanistan. I really am beginning to hate Republicans overall as a party.

Maybe it would be best to save that money and spend some of it on the vets rather than a wasted decade long effort of futility and nation building (the policy shared by our President and President Bush and Candidate Romney)

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And yet it not on the merit of the program that it was killed by the GOP...it was the cost.

Let me guess, it became a priority for the Dems when elections approached?

It is nice to see them finally focused on jobs though...govt jobs of course

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This. Thanks for all you do, killerbee.

Hail!

Meh, not to bad for me 12 hr days, 6 day work week, I'll live at least I am in Kuwait. I just feel sorry for our guys in Afghanistan, well I am probably on my way to Fort Bragg after I leave Kuwait in Dec. Airborne school and probably on my way there in 2014. Can't wait (being sarcastic on this part). Just pass the job bill as long as it's covered through good funding. Heck , I know you can trim foreign aid to numerous countries that hate us to pay for it, assisting in creating new job opportunities for the approximately over 100,000 veterans who will be looking for jobs when this war ends and we trim down our ranks.

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Fail....they were ALREADY government workers!

You fail even when you try to move the goal posts.

and are entitled to continue as such in a different position?

as Killerbee mentioned there are cuts in troop levels coming.

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and are entitled to continue as such in a different position?

You had no problem paying them while they wore the uniform.

as Killerbee mentioned there are cuts in troop levels coming.

Which the GOP will complain about and then blame Obama saying he is weak on defense.....mark my words.

---------- Post added September-20th-2012 at 09:23 AM ----------

Is "move the goal posts" going to be the new political buzz phrase? I've already seen that pop up a few times.

Only so much as when people do it.

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Maybe it would be best to save that money and spend some of it on the vets rather than a wasted decade long effort of futility and nation building (the policy shared by our President and President Bush and Candidate Romney)

Couldn't agree more. In a perfect world, our "defense" budget would be slashed and the VA's budget would be fat and healthy. Sadly that is not the case.

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Training people for employment as productive citizens after they have volunteered to serve this country is not a selfless thing to do.

Once they're employed, they add to the economy, to the tax base, to everything that helps make us stronger.

They will pump much more than it costs to train them back into the country.

What a horrible idea.

~Bang

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Those things that American's did during WWII like housing traveling solders and then the G.I. Bill are clear examples of socialism. The Nazi's won by creating the middle class in the America. /sarcasm

Bottom line, Trolls With Attitudes would defend their party regardless of how far off the cliff they're willing to go. Its like a cult with a suicide pact. Matching tennis shoes and robes. Lets go!

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Seems an odd story: When i got out it was part of the ETS package to sign up with different groups to get you a job on the outside.

We would have had to "stop" doing that, to now have to 'start" doing that again?

I got a job with a non-profit group that ran a helpdesk for the AirForce desktops in the Pentagon where i walked in the day after my transition leave ended

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You had no problem paying them while they wore the uniform.

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I'm pretty supportive of paying people that work.....you might even say obligated

I'm also supportive of job training and hiring vets.......funny how some care mainly at election time.

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I'm pretty supportive of paying people that work.....you might even say obligated

I'm also supportive of job training and hiring vets.......funny how some care mainly at election time.

If you did believe anything you wrote, it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference when it got done, it would just be important that it DID get done.

Typical of your party. Play games, pretend to carry some sort of superior attitude, but in truth, act detrimental to the good of the people of this country.

Typical hypocrite, screaming about hypocrisy.

~Bang

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