President Obama speaks at VFW Convention

President Obama announces job training services for veterans
BY LAURA MYERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Posted: Jul. 23, 2012

RENO -- President Barack Obama on Monday announced an overhaul of U.S. job training services for veterans returning home from war, saying it's still too tough for America's fighting men and women to find jobs despite the skills they learned in the military.

"We're going to set up a reverse boot camp," Obama said, addressing the annual convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars. He said it would provide job training, education and help starting new business for veterans in order to step up their "career readiness."

"Our American veterans have the skills America needs," Obama said to warm applause from several thousand veterans in the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. "It's still too hard for our folks to find work, especially our young veterans" returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama said he also signed into law a veterans jobs skills act to help speed credentials and certification in job specialties veterans learned in the military to help them get work at home.
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When Mitch" McConnell gave this speech in 2010, his priority was to make Obama a one term president. His list of things to do did not include taking care of the men and women serving this nation in two wars, taking care of the veterans already back home, taking care of the National Guards and Reservists needing jobs or anything else military families needed. Making Obama a one term president was the goal of the GOP elected to run the affairs of this nation. So what did they do? They cut budgets getting rid of a most of the jobs veterans usually take in public service as firefighters, police officers, teachers and other jobs so they can still be of service to their communities. They they complained about the unemployment rate they just voted to increase so they could "cut the deficit" at the same time most Governors didn't use their share of the stimulus money to keep veterans on the job.

Watch this video clip of McConnell and you'll see why it has been so bad for veterans in the last two years. While commercials down here in Florida talk about the unemployment rate at 8% for the "last three years" they fail to mention that in 2009 it was still the Bush budget and what they love to forget is the fact that while Presidents come up with their own thoughts on the budget the end result always comes from CONGRESS!!!!!!!

They control the money but love to blame the guy in charge no matter who it is so while Democrats complained about the Bush budget again the end result came from the people each state elected.