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US184 - Standing Up For Those Who Serve
| Expand and improve benefits for veterans and their families—from health care to education and job opportunities | |
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President Obama is committed to keeping the sacred trust we hold with members of our nation’s all-volunteer military. The President has fought to expand and improve benefits for veterans and their families—from access to the health care they need to the education and job opportunities they deserve when they return home.
The President and his administration, along with the First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden, have secured commitments from private sector companies to hire unemployed veterans and worked to make sure returning servicemembers can find work when they come home. The President also took executive actions to help match veterans with potential employers, streamline the job search for returning servicemembers, and is working to provide veterans and their families better access to job training. Recently, the President announced his Veterans Jobs Corps initiative, which will put veterans back to work on a range of projects that benefit from the skills they developed in the military.
As part of the President’s plan to support American jobs, he signed into law the Returning Heroes and Wounded Warrior tax credits to encourage businesses to hire unemployed veterans and veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Source: barackobama.com
The President and his administration, along with the First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden, have secured commitments from private sector companies to hire unemployed veterans and worked to make sure returning servicemembers can find work when they come home. The President also took executive actions to help match veterans with potential employers, streamline the job search for returning servicemembers, and is working to provide veterans and their families better access to job training. Recently, the President announced his Veterans Jobs Corps initiative, which will put veterans back to work on a range of projects that benefit from the skills they developed in the military.
As part of the President’s plan to support American jobs, he signed into law the Returning Heroes and Wounded Warrior tax credits to encourage businesses to hire unemployed veterans and veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Source: barackobama.com
Arguments
We must take care of the men and women who give absolutely everything of themselves for this country. Our veterans are heroes – and should be treated as such. We need to be doing everything we can to ensure they have the resources and support they need when they come home.
Source: joekennedy2012.com
Tom has two children in active duty service. He knows we must honor their service by guaranteeing top notch health care and benefits. Our commitment to our veterans cannot be abandoned when their active service ends.
Source: tomsmithforsenate.com
Source: tomsmithforsenate.com
Wow! Bradtimes seems like an ungrateful piece of _ _ _ _.
The young people in uniform are wearing YOUR uniform, our uniform, not the uniform of Shell or Sunoco.
Talking about the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom is a bit of old business, very old.
There is no broader context. You keep the promise made to these people, and the children of those who died wearing your uniform or you do not. The alternative is the choice offered by Bradtimes and that is to be to be a liar. The very worst liar.
While our troops have access to some of the most advanced trauma care on the battlefield, I believe it is our moral obligation to ensure they retain that level of care once they have transitioned into civilian life. Our veterans are entitled to the benefits they have earned and deserve.
Source: carmonaforarizona.com
Source: carmonaforarizona.com
We have an obligation to care for and honor America’s servicemen and women, their families, and our veterans for their bravery and sacrifice. Congress is working to keep our promises to our men and women in uniform. On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Source: pelosi.house.gov
Source: pelosi.house.gov
The VOW to Hire Heroes Act provided several tax credits for Pennsylvania businesses that hire out-of-work veterans. Bob Casey cosponsored this legislation, which was signed into law in 2011. Because of this bill, businesses that hire unemployed veterans are eligible for a tax credit for each veteran hired.
Source: bobcasey.com
Source: bobcasey.com
Every day, we celebrate the excellence and dedication to country of the brave men and women who stand on the frontlines overseas and here at home to help keep every American safe and secure. We have a solemn obligation to support the physical and mental health and welfare of our troops. I will continue to fight to provide them with the tools they need to do their job on behalf of the American people. I was a proud sponsor of the New GI Bill that modernized educational benefits for post-9/11 veterans. I continue to work to ensure that counseling and support mechanisms are in place for service members and families.
Source: bencardin.com
Source: bencardin.com
Our brave service members and their families have sacrificed to protect our nation. We owe them a bright future when they return home.
Source: cantwell.com
Source: cantwell.com
Our men and women in uniform do an incredible job. They are tough, smart, and resourceful, and they fight with courage and honor. Our military families show the same courage. All three of my brothers served in the military and my oldest brother was career military, with 288 combat missions in Vietnam, so I have a first-hand idea of how much they and their families contribute to our country.
As a U.S. Senator, I will continue to do all I can to support servicemembers, their families, and veterans. I will work hard to help ease the return to civilian life by supporting a strong GI Bill, ensuring that veterans have top-notch health care, and taking action to create jobs. Our servicemembers and military families contribute so much to our country - we owe them the best.
The sacred trust we have with our military families is also why it is so important for our political leaders to make good decisions when it comes to our foreign policy and national security.
As a U.S. Senator, I will continue to do all I can to support servicemembers, their families, and veterans. I will work hard to help ease the return to civilian life by supporting a strong GI Bill, ensuring that veterans have top-notch health care, and taking action to create jobs. Our servicemembers and military families contribute so much to our country - we owe them the best.
The sacred trust we have with our military families is also why it is so important for our political leaders to make good decisions when it comes to our foreign policy and national security.
Source: elizabethwarren.com
Counterarguments
While taking good care of veterans is on the whole a good idea, could it be somewhat specious? Currently so many of the volunteers in the military are lured there by training, education and other benefits both real and perceived. Many if not most of these are from disadvantaged classes. Are these people being exploited or "suckered"?
Exhibit 1 in this case would be the Iraq fiasco where the military action had little to nothing to do with the often repeated rhetoric of "Defending Our Freedoms" and everything to do with promoting the interests of American "empire" and economic interests.
Is further incentivising the military option while making other options relatively less attractive or feasible for young people really the way to go? This is by no means meant to say "screw the veterans", it is just to suggest considering the issue in a broader context.
That is not what was said, he said he would cut funding
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It's what he says on his campaign website