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Originally Posted by TheMMAn
i'll go ahead and pile on here.
i work for a service-disabled vet (SF Captain injured in Fallujah in 05). Through the SBA-backed SDVOB program, we have built a nice company, working as contractors in the federal market. There are all kinds of tools for vets to help them start their own business, from business loans, government set-asides, and special bonding programs. In fact almost all construction work at the VA facilites is offered to veteran-oened, and service-disabled owned businesses, taking the place, in terms of preference, over the 8(a) minority/disadvantaged firms..
We give back by hiring and training (apprenticeship program under the IEC) vets to be electricians (which make around $40/hour on Fed contracts) as a career.
Also, about half of our work is at VA facilities, and i am around Vets pretty much every day. From a contractor standpoint, i can tell you that the VA's are flush with money. The region i work in has so many funded projects this quarter, that they have had had to outsource contracting duties to the Corps of Engineers. A lot of the renovation/expansion work we do is directly tied to programs that are being started or expanded.
I have to agree with Poly's question. What exactly do think needs to be done? My guess is that you are more concerned with politics than you are these vets.
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Seriously dude, what else could possibly be done for these guys?
There are so many opportunities out there it's ridiculous that we're sitting here talking about this right now.
If you want to complain about McCain or the military, there is plenty to bitch about...but this isn't even valid.