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Meet the 40 Senate Republicans Who Betrayed Veterans By Killing $1 Billion in Jobs

Forty Republican members of the United States Senate betrayed veterans today when they 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 nation’s police and fire departments. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) based her plan of FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but Republicans opposed the bill because they said there is no proof that it would work.
How stupid can this be? Spending $1 billion dollars of tax payer money (in addition to QE and numerous stimuli programs) to create jobs? And create jobs for vets?

Thankfully, it was killed. Patty Murray is an embarrassment to me state and always has been.

I think the US govt has been rehashing FDR's CCC for the past 4 1/2 years. The results?
^ Did I read that right? You think that a jobs program for veterans is stupid? Better to just leave our veterans hanging, collecting food stamps and welfare, is that it?

US infrastructure is in dismal shape, a CCC-type program would be a win-win for our veterans and the nation.
Libertarian Logic. Let those who risked it all for the country be taught what freedom really is all about: "Thanks...f*ck off...get a job".