{"id":26095,"date":"2011-08-05T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26095"},"modified":"2011-08-05T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T11:10:19","slug":"president-to-declare-war-on-vet-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26095","title":{"rendered":"President to declare war on vet unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that the President will outline a plan to combat veteran unemployment over the next several months during a speech this morning at the Washington Navy Yard in DC today. The program will improve transition services for troops leaving the military and incentives for employers.<\/p>\n

White House officials said his speech will also include proposals for tax cuts for companies that hire young veterans and a public challenge to civilian companies to hire 100,000 former servicemembers over the next 16 months.<\/p>\n

According to Department of Labor statistics, the unemployment rate for post-Sept. 11 veterans in June hit 13.3 percent, well above the national rate of 9.2 percent. A senior White House official called the figures unacceptable, and said that \u201cthose veterans who have sacrificed for their country … deserve all the support we can give them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I applaud the administration’s efforts to help veterans, I’ve seen this before. They hire a bunch of school-educated doofuses who wouldn’t know a rifle from a bayonet to tell soldiers how to adapt to civilian life when these counselors can’t even relate to troops’ experiences.<\/p>\n

The government needs to hire combat veterans to run these programs, folks who’ve been in boots and then transitioned to civilian lives. It’s the same solution for lowering the suicide rate among veterans.<\/p>\n

They come back from the defining moment of their lives to discover that they can’t relate to events swirling around them, and combat veterans discover that the most important thing that ever happened to them means nothing to anyone outside their homes. They need someone who went before them and dealt with the same feelings and walked in their boots before them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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