Thursday, September 25, 2014

Poverty Draft & Veterans Benefits

One benefit of being a veteran is the leadership experience as an attractive resume point, nationwide jobs preference programs, massive training programs, all leading to better jobs prospects after time in the service.  Or not:
As of September 2012, 736,000 veterans were unemployed and the jobless rate for post-9/11 veterans was 9.9 percent, with young male veterans (ages 18 to 24) experiencing an unemployment rate of 18.1 percent.
The unemployment rate in USA is reported as around 5.5%, so veterans are running about double, and young veterans nearly four times.

How come?  Is the fact of the matter military experience makes people undesirable as employees?  Or is it just officers get the experience benefit and the grunts, no?

Since we now have a poverty draft, the young should know these figures, if any think they will escape poverty by joining the military.  They might, but the odds are they won't.

If you really want to be all you can all be, start a business, the most revolutionary act an American can perform.

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