Question: Should vets be given priority for jobs?

[NHSparky]

No useable skill?

Hmmmm...then why am I at work, on my break, typing this, when my "useless" skill enabled me to earn a six-figure income last year?

And that "useless" skill puts a roof over my head, food on my table, and money in my pocket for a decade now in a "dead" industry (read: nuclear power?)

Bottom line, DUmmies--if you had half the drive, intelligence, integrity, and honor to have served,  you wouldn't bitch one letter about a 5 or 10-point veterans preference.

[Airwolf]

Couldn't say it any better myself.  Hi5

Thanks TRG. We both know that none of those people could hold a candle to a good decent soldier or Sailor Marine or Airman . If they could they wouldn't be the dregs of humanity that they are. Everyday they try and pilot the USS Stupid to where no intelligent man has gone before.

[Vagabond]

Ayup...  7 years as a Weather Forecaster and counting.  Nothing usable there on the outside.

Hmmmm....Six years of figuring out just how the orders given to me translated into actual action.  Troubleshooting electronics, dealing with non-technical workers, motivating unmotivated employees, building communications sheds, andinstalling and maintaining critical communications infrastrucure. 

It translated so well that I was in promoted into a project management group in two and a half years after I got out.  I don't think DUmmies would be able to hack my course.  If I cared to do so, I have dozens of meaningful certificates and commendations I could hang on a I love me wall.

DUmmies are more like that PFC that called me in the middle of the night to tell me he was in jail in Mexico.  Granted he did eventually straighten up.

[formerlurker]

The reason I was a single mom was because I had the temerity to leave my abusive alcoholic army veteran husband after 10 years of trying desperately to "help" him. I'm a Vietnam vet, too, just of a different sort.

Why do I get the feeling this is a huge crock of nonsense? 

[LC EFA]

Veterans should be the only ones allowed to vote.

 

I like some of Heinlein's ideas , but as I see it this one amounts to taxation without representation.

[Vagabond]

I like some of Heinlein's ideas , but as I see it this one amounts to taxation without representation.

Yes, but it does tend to make it so that the ones that would actually do anything about it, besides bitch, are all on the same side.

[rich_t]

I like some of Heinlein's ideas , but as I see it this one amounts to taxation without representation.

My comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek.  But it would help weed out those that merely vote for increasing the size of their government handouts.


 

[Karin]

I'm always suspicious about these "nickels under the floormats & sofa cushions to buy my babies milk" bouncies.  We have food stamps, we have WIC, we have foodbanks.  There is no reason anyone should go hungry.  I also don't buy her "that was the only viable option for employment, so I lost my house."  The ONLY?  The ONLY game in town is the USPS? 

There was a lib woman on Fox, one of the panels, who said "People are starving!!!!!"   Am I wrong here to not be buying that? 

As to the military question, if/when again I'm in the position of hiring, I always give informal preference to servicepeople when reading the resumes.  Just between you and me, I do the opposite with Muslims. 

[rich_t]

I'm always suspicious about these "nickels under the floormats & sofa cushions to buy my babies milk" bouncies.  We have food stamps, we have WIC, we have foodbanks.  There is no reason anyone should go hungry.  I also don't buy her "that was the only viable option for employment, so I lost my house."  The ONLY?  The ONLY game in town is the USPS? 

There was a lib woman on Fox, one of the panels, who said "People are starving!!!!!"   Am I wrong here to not be buying that? 

As to the military question, if/when again I'm in the position of hiring, I always give informal preference to servicepeople when reading the resumes.  Just between you and me, I do the opposite with Muslims. 

Fatwa on you is now in place.