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Forty Republican members of the United States Senate betrayed veterans today when decided that denying President Obama a victory was more important than spending $1 billion to create jobs for vets.
The Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 would have spent $1 billion over five years to put veterans to work tending to federal lands, and in the nations police and fire departments. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) based her plan of FDRs Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but Republicans opposed the bill because they said there is no proof that it would work.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn claimed that there is no evidence that jobs for vets will work, What we have is a bill thats brought to the floor that has good intentions behind but shows the absolute laziness of congress in terms of really digging things out. issued their duplication report on the job training programs for veterans, four of them do exactly the same thing. None of them have a metric. So we dont know if theyre working, and we havent held a hearing to find out if theyre working. But what are we doing?
It doesnt matter to most Senate Republicans that the CCC put 2.5 million people to work. When confronted with an actual jobs program for Americas vets, including the 220,000 who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the majority of Republicans claimed the plan, which was already offset, was too expensive.
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white cloud
(2,567 posts)The good news is that five Senate Republicans didnt join with their party. Sen. Scott Brown (MA), Dean Heller (NV) Lisa Murkowski (AK), and Maines Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe all voted with the Democrats, but in the end the bill fell two votes short of clearing the procedural hurdle, and died in the Senate.
Here are the 40 Republicans who voted to keep Americas veterans unemployed,
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Mark Kirk and James Inhofe did not vote.
If any two of the Republicans on this list would have decided to put our veterans first, this bill would have moved forward. Instead, Senate Republicans thanked veterans by denying them jobs.
polichick
(37,152 posts)...and who sees the troops as pawns in their corporate domination games.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)tech3149
(4,452 posts)DO IT NOW! I am embarrassed to be represented by a tool like Toomey but I let him know this morning how despicable I found his lack of support. They just proved that they think more about politics than the good of the country.
white cloud
(2,567 posts)Cornyn (R-TX)
Hutchison (R-TX)
If any two of the Republicans on this list would have decided to put our veterans first, this bill would have moved forward. Instead, Senate Republicans thanked veterans by denying them jobs.
CHICKENHAWKS AND UN AMERICAN repugs.
Remember and Vote them out
tech3149
(4,452 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:49 PM - Edit history (1)
but I doubt that two TX asshats would be more responsive than a self serving politico from a somewhat moderate state. I'll have to check in with Juanita Jean to see what the other political geeks in TX have to say.
ETA: Juanita didn't have a single comment on the issue so I gave her whatfor, in the most respectful and kindest sense.