Congressman Calls Vet Jobs Bill Unfair, Wasteful

The fact is Senator Coburn must not pay attention much. After all, the unemployment rate for veterans did go down but since most of the members of the military end up staying in public service jobs, this bill would have given them the chance to do it. It would have given them the chance to go into the line of work they love to do. Police officers/law enforcement, firefighters and EMT. They have it in their nature to want to do for others but killing this Bill just took that chance away from them and there is no excuse Coburn can use to explain what he just did to them when he could have done something for them!

Congressman Calls Vet Jobs Bill Unfair, Wasteful
Sep 25, 2012
Military.com
by Bryant Jordan

A Senator who helped block a vote last week on the Veterans Jobs Corps bill says he opposed the law in part because it would have duplicated existing federal jobs programs and given post-9/11 vets an unfair advantage over other veterans in targeted fields. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said there are six veterans’ jobs training programs under the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Labor that should be consolidated under the VA. Coburn said the programs are not working, citing the Government Accountability Office’s conclusion that overlaps in various programs result in inefficiencies.

“Instead of creating a new program we owe it to our veterans and taxpayers to understand why what we are already doing isn’t producing results,” Coburn said.

Under an amendment to the bill offered by Coburn, the six programs – the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program, the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project, the Local Veterans Employment Representative Program, the Transition Assistance Program, the Veterans Workforce Investment Program and the Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans Program – would have been placed under the VA and reviewed to ensure they’re working.

However, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader, would not allow amendments, Coburn said.
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