Sounds like we need less department of defense and more private sector.
I am with you - free enterprise is the system that pays the freight for Democracy.
However, what our government is doing right now (and that includes our Republican masters) is crazy.
The Defense industry, which could employ tens of thousands of these veterans, is getting decimated right now because of Sequestration. The military has to pay 50 cents on every dollar of cuts, despite being 18% of the budget. Entitlement spending is not touched during Sequestration.
Defense spending for private companies was down 22% last quarter (the biggest drop in decades), and that was the main driver for the overall economy going into negative territory with a minus 0.1% growth report.
One more of those and we will be officially in another Recession. I don't think we ever recovered from the last one (and statistics these days are manipulated for political reasons), however - we are probably headed into Recession territory again.
Moreover, with the DoD alone furloughing about 750,000 this week, almost half of those are veterans.
Even worse:
Sequestration Puts 2.14 Million Total Jobs at Risk
I am not certain the job losses will be 2 million, but they are going to be substantial, and they have already started.
Workers Lose Jobs As Pink Slips Go Out Due To Sequestration
But - Food Stamps and Temporary Assist to Need Families (Ca$h Welfare) are not touched one iota with Sequestration.
Mind you, the Republicans agreed to all of this with the 2011 Budget Control Act. Boehner bragged he got "98% of what I wanted" with that agreement that has brought us Sequestration which punishes the military, and now veterans, the most.
This is immoral.
It is time for our Republican leaders to stop crowing about how Sequestration is a "victory" and start doing something about it.