Awesome.
We just can’t send a Vet to war and forget them.
President Barack Obama on Friday ramped up his efforts to help unemployed veterans find jobs by calling for $6 billion in spending aimed at service members returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Veterans “are the Americans that we want to keep serving here at home as we rebuild this country. So we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that when our troops come home, they come home to new jobs and new opportunities and new ways to serve their country,” Obama said at Arlington Fire Station No. 5, a Northern Virginia firehouse that sent some of the first emergency responders to the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=CC79C6EC-69F7-4E8B-AAE4-CE3DD74A5262
Obama pushes for veterans jobs programs
In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, President Barack Obama is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans to work rebuilding trails, roads and levees on public lands.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-obama-pushes-for-veterans-jobs-programs-20120203,0,2725809.story
The president also will seek more grant money for programs that allow local communities to hire more police officers and firefighters.
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