[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Actually some returning vets do apply for some of those jobs (or come back to them -- I personally know of one man who was both a local policeman and also member of nat'l guard unit sent to Iraq).
 
Benefits for returning vets for sure, including coverage of college costs. Interesting list of careers, most of which are in the helping professions (not everyone's idea of a career choice) and require some college, especially if they pay even close to a living wage w/ benefits, etc. Jmho. 
 --Jenifer


--- On Sat, 7/26/08, Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago
To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 11:24 AM

> Jenifer wrote; the current admin (and Repos, including McCain) were
unwilling 
> to give returning service men and women college op$, because that would 
> make it unnecessary for folks to re-up, which would deplete the military

They could always work for the private militias, prison guards, local police, 
border patrol, NSA, Homeland Security.

* Bring them home, 
* Give them the benefits the military promised them including college and 
health care, and 
* Train them as health care and mental health care workers (professionals that

they will need). 
* Also train them as drug abuse treatment workers

-karen medina
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago  
>To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net, kmedina at illinois.edu
>
>The present admin only continued what the Clinton admin started -- NAFTA 
(and  welfare to work my foot). The line went something like this: "The
Clinton 
Admin  created 2 million new jobs!" "Yeah, I know. my wife and I each
have three 
of  them."                                                                
           
>                                                                           
      
>And re the military (w/ so many joining for financial reasons, as you say, 
      
>Karen): the current admin (and Repos, including McCain) were unwilling to
give    
>returning service men and women college op$, because that would make it    
      
>unnecessary for folks to re-up, which would deplete the military (all-
volunteer  military my foot).                                                  
             
> --Jenifer                                                                 
      
>                                                                           
      
>--- On Sat, 7/26/08, Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu> wrote:      
            
>                                                                           
      
>  From: Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu>                          
            
>  Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago      
      
>  To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net                                           
      
>  Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 10:41 AM                                  
      
>                                                                           
      
> cge and mkb were writing about Code Pink's waffling and Medea
Benjamin's         
> statement:                                                                
      
> >"Itʼs not enough to simply say 'Troops out now.' Should
we                     
> be calling for talks with the Taliban? ... Should we advocate a timeline
for the 
> withdrawal of U.S. troops and if so, based on what criteria?"        
           
>                                                                           
      
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> About a year ago I was participating in a campus demonstration spearheaded

by    
> the Green party students but with loads of other groups participating.
They      
> wanted one of the "demands" to be "troops out now". It
was                       
> fairly easy to convince them that it should be "troops home
now".                
>                                                                           
      
> Bring them home now. But even this I say with a little shudder -- the load
on    
> society when they do come home is going to be tremendous. You of course 
realize  
> who we send when it is an all-volunteer operation: young people who felt 
that    
> their job prospects were not so good to start with. Now they will be
coming 
home 
> damaged as well as jobless. Oh the things this administration has done to

ruin   
> our young people and the economy. Heartbreaking.                          
      
>                                                                           
      
> -karen medina                                                             
      
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