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Wait Wut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-11 05:46 PM
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33. Actually, one of the things I was praying for was in the jobs bill.
A (small) incentive to employers to hire veterans. Fucking GOP.

The stigma is real and hinders the employment of vets, even in our own government. While construction work is great when it's available, it isn't going to fulfill the employment needs of the thousands of vets we'll have on our hands. We still have regular citizens to hire, too. The medical field would be a great choice for a lot of young people, but not most veterans.

That incentive means a lot to me. It wasn't much, but it could've been the spark to hire a handful of young men and women.
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  -Panetta: Cutting Too Deep Would Devastate Military Purveyor  Oct-13-11 04:40 PM   #0 
  - And...?  Common Sense Party   Oct-13-11 04:42 PM   #1 
  - Tough shit! We ALL need to cut back!  City Lights   Oct-13-11 04:42 PM   #2 
  - Right. Like in Education for our kids Mr. Panetta?  MichiganVote   Oct-13-11 04:42 PM   #3 
  - Those same automatic cuts would devastate our country's social safety net.  Robb   Oct-13-11 04:47 PM   #4 
  - maybe they can find the over two trillion dollars  newspeak   Oct-14-11 11:22 AM   #83 
     - EXACTLY -- Rumsfeld seems to have misplaced $2.3 TRILLION ... guess we don't need it that badly?  defendandprotect   Oct-17-11 02:45 PM   #102 
  - Too bad. Cry me a river, asshole  Taverner   Oct-13-11 04:48 PM   #5 
  - Fine, cant cut the military budget? then pay off my student loans..nt  and-justice-for-all   Oct-13-11 04:49 PM   #6 
  - We spend more than the rest of the world combined...it's fucking crazy, Leon  BeyondGeography   Oct-13-11 04:49 PM   #7 
  - +100  chill_wind   Oct-14-11 12:45 AM   #58 
  - +101  wordpix   Oct-14-11 12:06 PM   #85 
  - Which air force is the largest in the world?  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 01:19 AM   #61 
  - They should tell Mr. Panetta that if he can find the trillions the  Booster   Oct-13-11 04:50 PM   #8 
  - *  ronnie624   Oct-16-11 01:51 AM   #97 
  - Duh! That's the point! n/t  shanti   Oct-13-11 04:51 PM   #9 
  - Well, that's certainly true. But how deep is "too deep"?  dtexdem   Oct-13-11 04:51 PM   #10 
  - Shut the fuck up and eat your peas Panetta  Autumn   Oct-13-11 04:53 PM   #11 
  - LOL!  Enthusiast   Oct-13-11 05:06 PM   #18 
  - Ah but there's a reason why he's dishing them out ...  Nihil   Oct-14-11 07:18 AM   #75 
     - LOL  Autumn   Oct-14-11 10:42 AM   #81 
  - Fuck Panetta!  RUMMYisFROSTED   Oct-13-11 04:54 PM   #12 
  - NOW they care about jobs and pensions. n/t  BadgerKid   Oct-13-11 04:55 PM   #13 
  - I'm devastated.  Downwinder   Oct-13-11 04:55 PM   #14 
  - What they said.  Arctic Dave   Oct-13-11 04:58 PM   #15 
  - How much military do we need to bomb weddings in the ME?  DJ13   Oct-13-11 04:59 PM   #16 
  - A military one forth  Enthusiast   Oct-13-11 05:02 PM   #17 
  - Not cutting deep will devastate the entire nation...  Magoo48   Oct-13-11 05:08 PM   #19 
  - What they said.  Arctic Dave   Oct-13-11 05:12 PM   #20 
  - I understand that DU has a large anti-military crowd, but...  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 05:15 PM   #21 
  - There are jobs that could be offered former servicepeople,  area51   Oct-13-11 05:28 PM   #26 
  - government can do little about that  pasto76   Oct-13-11 05:36 PM   #28 
  - Reservists, from what I'm told, are hit hard.  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 05:39 PM   #30 
  - "government can do little about that" How do you know that? Has government  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 01:49 AM   #63 
  - Actually, one of the things I was praying for was in the jobs bill.  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 05:46 PM   #33 
  - You are so right,but  lefthandedlefty   Oct-13-11 06:43 PM   #53 
     - Are you saying Americans as a whole don't want to do actual work? If so, fuck all liars  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:01 AM   #64 
        - I was saying the gov and big business hates labor  lefthandedlefty   Oct-14-11 05:13 PM   #89 
  - All of you can note the lack of responses to this comment  pasto76   Oct-13-11 05:32 PM   #27 
  - excuse me. Did you just tell me I can fuck myself?  DisgustipatedinCA   Oct-13-11 05:38 PM   #29 
  - "...charity program..."  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 05:50 PM   #35 
  - Get off your whiny little soapbox  DisgustipatedinCA   Oct-13-11 05:57 PM   #38 
     - Whiny little soapbox?  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 06:03 PM   #42 
  - Apparently, if we don't reply to a post in under 17 minutes, we're all scum.  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:12 AM   #66 
  - I would love to see you unemployed....  mike_c   Oct-13-11 05:46 PM   #34 
  - Awesome.  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 05:52 PM   #36 
     - which thugs for corporate capitalism...  mike_c   Oct-13-11 05:54 PM   #37 
     - WTF?  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 06:04 PM   #44 
     - I had the same question. Posted it before I saw you asking it.  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:20 AM   #68 
     - You mock Democratic compassion repeatedly, but you cursed the GOP upthread. So, which Party do you  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:18 AM   #67 
  - That post was made at 6:15 pm, yours at 6:32 pm, all of 17 minutes later.  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:08 AM   #65 
  - I'm not so much for reduction in people as I am for reduction in wars and crazy projects  GreenPartyVoter   Oct-13-11 06:03 PM   #43 
  - Agreed.  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 06:06 PM   #45 
     - I'd put logistics back under the military umbrella, too. No more outsourcing.  GreenPartyVoter   Oct-13-11 06:09 PM   #46 
        - Absolutely.  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 06:18 PM   #47 
           - My Dad was a senior chief in the Navy reserves. I've heard all about the  GreenPartyVoter   Oct-13-11 06:24 PM   #49 
              - I've always been treated very well by the Marines  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 06:32 PM   #51 
                 - Dad was in Security, so he didn't have much he could actually say. :^)  GreenPartyVoter   Oct-13-11 06:33 PM   #52 
  - Only 1/3 of the budget is for payroll. The other 2/3 is for hardware and  plumbob   Oct-13-11 06:28 PM   #50 
  - Thanks. I've seen one DUer post again and again that most of the money is for troops, not, as he  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:24 AM   #69 
  - We need mandatory part time work for full time pay n/t  eridani   Oct-14-11 12:45 AM   #59 
  - Weird comment.  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:25 AM   #70 
     - Not hardly. If fewer and fewer people make more and more stuff--  eridani   Oct-14-11 03:29 AM   #72 
  - First, there is a big difference between being anti war and/or Pentagon or anti tmilitary  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 01:35 AM   #62 
  - The large cost isn't for paying service members and I don't think  harun   Oct-14-11 08:41 AM   #79 
  - Sounds good to me. nt  AverageJoe90   Oct-15-11 11:49 PM   #95 
  - Cutting social security and Medicare would devastate millions of old and frail  indepat   Oct-13-11 05:19 PM   #22 
  - Cutting social security and Medicare would devastate millions of old and frail  indepat   Oct-13-11 05:20 PM   #23 
  - Well, then, we will have to raise the taxes the rich pay.  JDPriestly   Oct-13-11 05:22 PM   #24 
  - Should be cutting a trillion over 10 years! Ya knew they were going to cry so start...  L0oniX   Oct-13-11 05:26 PM   #25 
  - Hey Leon, what about the missing 2.3 trillion, are you looking into that?  red dog 1   Oct-13-11 05:40 PM   #31 
  - he says that like it's a bad thing....  mike_c   Oct-13-11 05:43 PM   #32 
  - BALONEY! It is a disgrace all the money this country spends on military.  avaistheone1   Oct-13-11 05:58 PM   #39 
  - Depends on what gets cut.  BreweryYardRat   Oct-13-11 05:59 PM   #40 
  - THANK YOU!!!  Wait Wut   Oct-13-11 06:24 PM   #48 
  - What Panetta really meant to say was...  Dont call me Shirley   Oct-13-11 06:00 PM   #41 
  - Go suck an egg, Leon  pscot   Oct-13-11 06:44 PM   #54 
  - Blah, Blah, Blah...Suck it up.  SoapBox   Oct-13-11 06:49 PM   #55 
  - What enemy?  JJW   Oct-13-11 06:50 PM   #56 
  - yea, we wouldn't want to cut off that MIC Corprat Welfare would we?  ProfessionalLeftist   Oct-14-11 12:43 AM   #57 
  - I don't believe a damn thing he says til we LEAVE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN  slay   Oct-14-11 01:13 AM   #60 
  - Even after all his years as a DINO, the Nixonite in Panetta still comes through.  No Elephants   Oct-14-11 02:29 AM   #71 
  - good!!!  Sancho   Oct-14-11 05:14 AM   #73 
  - Is that supposed to scare us into a panic?  lunatica   Oct-14-11 05:19 AM   #74 
  - We had the largest military in the world in 2001, now at almost twice the  David Sky   Oct-14-11 07:25 AM   #76 
  - The PRC, not the USA, continues to have the world's largest  24601   Oct-14-11 08:51 PM   #90 
     - Uhm, that;s by troop count.  boppers   Oct-16-11 03:18 AM   #98 
  - Oh, the tears...  shockra   Oct-14-11 07:37 AM   #77 
  - The whole military apparatus needs drastic cutting.  Owl   Oct-14-11 08:25 AM   #78 
  - Out with it, Sir. Speak up now. nt  BlueIris   Oct-14-11 09:55 AM   #80 
  - Bullshit. *Report: Pentagon doesn't know where the money is going*.  Zorra   Oct-14-11 11:17 AM   #82 
  - where did all the billion$ disappear to in Iraq? Afghanistan? And here in the US?  wordpix   Oct-14-11 12:08 PM   #86 
  - KamaAina: Fighting Three Wars At Once Has Devastated Military  KamaAina   Oct-14-11 11:24 AM   #84 
  - A trillion here, and a trillion there, and pretty soon we're talking world destruction.  Gregorian   Oct-14-11 12:27 PM   #87 
  - Let's cut back the socialistic military bases!  dmosh42   Oct-14-11 12:49 PM   #88 
  - Maybe if we started the cuts with Panetta's head, they would be more effective.  Vidar   Oct-14-11 10:31 PM   #91 
  - How about cutting out all the illegal Cointelpro-type DOD programs?  red dog 1   Oct-15-11 02:44 AM   #92 
  - +1000% ---  defendandprotect   Oct-17-11 02:42 PM   #101 
  - Typical Panetta!  clinton4life2011   Oct-15-11 02:00 PM   #93 
  - Devastated? Leon..........  DeSwiss   Oct-15-11 03:06 PM   #94 
  - Great graphic.  avaistheone1   Oct-16-11 01:28 AM   #96 
  - Leon is a member of the M.I.C.  classysassy   Oct-17-11 03:23 AM   #99 
  - BS --- it's Pentagon that's abusing military and soldiers -- end these wars!!!!  defendandprotect   Oct-17-11 02:39 PM   #100 
  - Devestate your retirement plans.  Octafish   Oct-17-11 03:24 PM   #103 
  - Easy answer  quakerboy   Oct-17-11 03:28 PM   #104 
  - Just below this in LBN- Halliburton boosts 3Q profits by 26 pct  underpants   Oct-17-11 05:44 PM   #105 
  - I think the US military is bloated.  Little Tich   Oct-18-11 03:39 AM   #106 
  - And Panetta says that like it's a bad thing  Demeter   Oct-18-11 04:33 AM   #107 
 

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