2007:
SEN. TOM COBURN, R-OK (3/30/2007): The Congress has taken a vacation … while we haven’t passed a supplemental for our troops. The American people ought to be outraged that we would leave here before we’ve taken care of our troops. I think it’s unconscionable.
And now when a Bi-Partisan bill comes forward, a year in the making, with a lot of the language of the Bill provided by House Republicans, a prescribed jobs opportunity specifically for Veterans to get into jobs for which they are uniquely qualified with requisite employability and transferrable skills at the ready, assholes like Coburn block it.
Obstructionist pieces of shit.
Duplication my ass. With the cuts in Government jobs, Police work, Security and Firefighting have not been plentiful. One in 4 vets are out of work. They needed this,
And how come the other programs aren’t sufficient? Might it be a better idea to repeal those programs and replace them with this bill, since we’re assuming that this bill is better?
I’m assuming that existing programs, plus this bill, will be better than existing programs. As in, if B>0, then A+B>A. And I don’t see any of the bill’s proponents arguing that either A, B, or A+B is sufficient - just that something is better than nothing, and meeting a larger part of the need is better than meeting a smaller part of it.
We’re trying to solve one tiny bit of the problem because that’s all anyone figured we could get through an obstructionist GOP Congress. And even that couldn’t be managed.
It would be nice if we could get a Grand Unified Veterans’ Jobs Program through Congress that consolidated or replaced all existing programs, and addressed the needs of all significant classes of veterans. It would also be nice if I could put on an oxygen mask and jump straight from here to the Space Station, and the likelihoods are comparable during this Congress.
Seems to me that we’re assuming that since two shoes isn’t good enough, we really need a third. Just to signal our support for feet in an election year. Never mind the cost.