Unemployed veterans hit 1 million and House Bill will make veterans pay

It sounds like a great thing to do. Taking care of veterans and making sure they have jobs sounds like an honorable thing to do, but we always need to read the fine print. When you read what Congressman Filner had to say about this "fix" you'll understand the fix yet again comes with a price that other veterans will have to pay for. What happened to doing the right thing? Some folks in congress would rather protect the rich than take care of the people we owe the greatest debt to, our veterans after they protected the whole country with their lives.

Veteran Unemployment Hits 1 Million
BY BOB BREWIN 07/15/11 04:47 pm ET
More than 60,000 veterans hit the unemployment rolls in June, which puts the total number of unemployed veterans at more than 1 million, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.

Miller, in a hearing Friday, pitched the 2011 Veteran Opportunity to Work Act backed with $3 billion budget as one solution to this problem. This bill emphasizes education and training, and includes language that mandates active duty personnel attend Transition Assistance Program classes that teach civilian job market skills such as resume writing.

Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif, the ranking member on the committee, sharply criticized the Miller bill, arguing: "This bill does very little to create jobs for veterans, regardless of how my Republican colleagues may portray it. This bill is about completely contracting out the Transition Assistance Program." Filner also blasted the Miller bill funding formula as a tax on vets who have Veterans Administration-backed mortgages, by using high loan fees to pay for the jobs bill.
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Veteran Unemployment Hits 1 Million