We Can Do Better Tour 2012
Our buddy, Pete Hegseth, sends a link to the latest project of his new Concerned Veterans for America; We Can Do Better Tour 2012;
The “We Can Do Better” tour is a ten-day East Coast bus tour (October 19-28) of decorated military veterans traveling through campaign ‘swing states’ prior to Election Day to generate awareness of the mounting challenges facing service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans of all generations.
The bus tour, sponsored by Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), will allow veterans and voters in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio—and across the nation—to hear directly from leaders in the veterans’ community about critical issues like:
* High veterans unemployment, especially younger vets
* Persistent military voting problems
* Growing Veterans Affairs (VA) claims backlog
* Foreign policy: Libya, Afghanistan, etc.
* Looming ‘national security’ cuts, known as ‘sequestration’
* Implications of $16 trillion national debt
The tour & dates are;
Pete has invited me to a couple of them, so I may show up to give some support.
Category: Military issues, Veterans Issues
It’s this kind of activism that is going to make a difference.
Oh, yeah. Good tour! Any vets who are perhaps close to one of these events, please, PLEASE try to join them.
Pete is definitely one of the good guys, in case anyone still wonders. Several of us who hang around here have met him and helped out a bit around the edges of things he has worked on in the past few years.
See you there OWB…!
Don’t forget the GOP voted against the vet jobs act. And that’s all of them. In lock step.
And that trillion dollar debt?? 2 wars off the books. Not to mention all the contractors making 3-4x what some snuffie GI did for the same job. And that’s one contractor to one GI, not the 10 GIs we had to one contractor in SVN. And most of those were tech reps.
CVA invited Legion Riders and some of the other veteran rider orgs to escort the bus on the tour through VA. Alas, I’ve got that Army Ten Miler the same weekend. dammitalll
@4: I wouldn’t confuse pay with cost…
Cost to deploy a soldier to Afghanistan for 1 year: $1,000,000
Contractor: $470,000 – $540,000
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/deploying-civilian-afghanistan_n_953831.html
ex AF, let me help you out.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=32178
We have covered this extensively, your bogus talking point is fooling noboday.