Posted on 09/19/2012 4:36:46 PM PDT by mdittmar
Washington, D.C. - Nevada Senator Harry Reid issued the following statement after Republicans blocked the Veterans Jobs Corps Act, which would have created jobs for returning veterans and put in place programs to help them reenter the civilian work force. Republicans blocked the bill with a procedural vote of 58 to 40, which failed to reach a supermajority. All 40 votes against the bill were cast by Republican Senators:
“The least we can do for veterans, after they fought for this country abroad, is to ensure they never have to fight for a job when they come home to Nevada, or any other state. Yet, Republicans stalled and eventually blocked the Veterans Jobs Corps Act with one procedural excuse after another. My colleagues have played politics with all types of common sense measures, just because those measures are supported by President Obama. But blocking a veterans’ jobs bill is a new low, and truly disappointing to me and to tens of thousands of service members.
“Each year 200,000 brave members of our Armed Forces reenter the civilian workforce. This bill would have eased their transition to civilian life with job training programs and priority hiring for first responder jobs as police officers, fire fighters or rescue workers. Once, a proposal like this would have sailed through the Senate with bipartisan support. But today my Republican colleagues put election-year partisanship ahead of the men and women who risked their lives to protect our freedoms.”
Can someone give me a good explanation for why this happened? The libs are having a field day with this. I don’t know the good reasons for it but I want to counter their claims. We need it to be easy for libs and undecideds to understand. We need ammunition in this propaganda war.
I’d check the websites for the DAV, VFW, Legion, AMVETS and the like for the real story.
I checked all of their websites and found nothing about it yet.
It increases the deficit:
Vet jobs bill fails in Senate; caught in Hill battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/vet-jobs-bill-fails-in-senate-caught-in-hill-battle/2012/09/19/9d35a104-0292-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_story.html
What a pant load.
Now, if Harry was saying this bill would help the Russian Navy and the Turkish Air Force, well, I’d probably believe him then.
There are already six Veterans Job Training bills in effect, with supposedly noone monitoring them as to their effectiveness. So this would be additional money spent that we don’t have. In addition, this bill is considered unconstitutional because spending bills should originate in the House, not the Senate. Google Sam Coburn as I believe he put out a report last year as to how ineffective and costly the programs were. “The report follows last year’s groundbreaking study from the Government Accountability Office that found taxpayers are spending $18 billion on 47 duplicative job training programs across 9 federal agencies. GAO could not find evidence that any of the job training programs were working.”
The bill was for 1,000,000,000 dollars we don’t have and the Democrats wouldn’t compromise to lower the amount so it failed.
ParkerPoo, THANK YOU SO MUCH! That is exactly what I needed to help me with the libs and moderates who don’t know the history! It was a great service you did for me.
Now I’m going after ALL the lib posts on FB and post the truth for them.
as Dan Rather said, “The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.”
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