Unemployment Rate Sky High For Young Veterans

[JABBS]

Click here to check out a scary statistic (via CNN) and read this sad story.

Shouldn't the Bush Administration be doing more to support the troops?

[treestar]

1. How ironic

The rethugs could at least give them jobs, after using them so diligently to make every one of their warmongering, civil-liberty-killing points.

[The Count]

2. It's the Democrats's fault!

Seriously, all the bad news they sat on for elections will come out now.

[JABBS]

5. ah-hah-hah

(working off your image) :)

[DaveJ]

3. Soldiers are too proud to accept jobs at Taco Bell

The rest of us have gotten used to it.

[jilln]

4. Someone called CSPAN this morning about this.

The woman caller asked what "that Nancy Peloooosey or whatever her name is" thinks the soldiers will do when they get back and what jobs they will find.

At the time I took it as an ignorant question, like she was implying they were better off over there... but maybe she was just trying to make a point about unemployment here.

[DaveJ]

9. I think your first guess was correct

She probably thinks a soldier's best option is to stay in the military. That kind of thinking is part of the economic problem. It really is a socialist attitude, counter to what Republicans claim. Same goes for the way Republicans support businesses that don't provide real health coverage, forcing employees to rely on government insurance, but that's another issue.

[CountAllVotes]

6. it was no different when the Vietnam vets came back

same story, different year.

:kick:

[JABBS]

7. i guess someone should look up historical data

to compare and contrast. and at what point in the war (since we don't know how long Iraq will last.)

In other words, do you compare this with the fourth year of Vietnam (1968, right?) or do you compare it with a later date closer to the end of the war, like 1973 (assuming that the Iraq War is winding down over the next two or three years.)

[CountAllVotes]

11. I just remember this is all

My brother was in the Vietnam war and he could not find a job for a very long time after he got out. He enlisted in 1972 I believe it was (before the last lottery).

As for statistics, I do not have any of them but I sure do remember it very well!

[seabeyond]

8. when did we enter war with iraq? dems were blamed for the failure

before it was a failure

[JABBS]

10. 2003

that would mean, if drawing an equivalent to Vietnam, that 2006 was the equivalent of 1967, and 2007 the equivalent of 1968.

so what was the unemployment rate for young veterans in 1967 or 1968? Anyone?