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Obama Will Focus on Jobs for Veterans During Langley AFB Visit (Using troops as props alert)
The Daily Press ^ | Sunday, October 16, 2011 | Todd Allen Wilson

Posted on 10/16/2011 6:07:50 PM PDT by kristinn

President Barack Obama will highlight portions of his jobs plan that encourage the hiring of unemployed veterans when he visits Langley Air Force Base in Hampton Wednesday during the final leg of his three-day bus tour through Virginia and North Carolina.

White House officials said Sunday that during the president's tour of two key Southern states in his reelection bid, he will call on Congress to start passing parts of his American Jobs Act this week starting with provisions which create jobs for teachers, police officers, fire fighters and veterans.

"He'll discuss the importance of job creation and putting our brave men and women who return from battlefields back to work and into good paying jobs," said Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest in a conference call with reporters.

First Lady Michelle Obama will join the president at Langley to help make the push to gain public support for the American Jobs Act. She will announce "a major private sector initiative to hire veterans and military spouses" as part of her Joining Forces Initiative, Earnest said.

The American Jobs Act includes tax credits for long-term unemployed veterans and businesses that hire veterans with service-related disabilities.

The president's visit to Langley Air Force Base is closed to the public.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: langleyafb; obama

1 posted on 10/16/2011 6:07:57 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Hussein can SHOVE IT!

He is the WORST President evah.

2 posted on 10/16/2011 6:12:43 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: kristinn

Temporary benefits for Veterans


3 posted on 10/16/2011 6:12:56 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: kristinn

The boy ALWAYS turns to the military when he runs out of ideas.


4 posted on 10/16/2011 6:13:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
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To: kristinn
The president's visit to Langley Air Force Base is closed to the public.

Does that include his toadies in the MSM? Nah! Photo op!

5 posted on 10/16/2011 6:15:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
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To: kristinn

Big fat H*LL NO! Stop spending. YOU are the 1%. We are broke.


6 posted on 10/16/2011 6:16:30 PM PDT by Pat4ever
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To: kristinn

In other words, he’s going to lay them off when they get home. He needs to just say he’s going to fire them. These people need to be kept in the military if they want to stay. They put their lives on the line for this country, we can’t kick them in the teeth just because they come home. It’s obvious that their CIC could care less about them.


7 posted on 10/16/2011 6:21:20 PM PDT by RC2
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To: kristinn

Talk is cheap


8 posted on 10/16/2011 6:25:58 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Pat4ever

It's all a crock... of Barack

Rehash0
President Mumbo-jumbo Barry -- ''It's fully paid for.''
9 posted on 10/16/2011 6:43:00 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: kristinn

Once a whore, always a whore!


10 posted on 10/16/2011 6:44:15 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: BobP

Cool photo


11 posted on 10/16/2011 6:51:23 PM PDT by Pat4ever
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To: Perdogg
Notice that the other 3 groups are union groups.
Barack’s faithful supporters. He is just buying votes. If you really think he cares about their jobs, I have a bridge to sell.
12 posted on 10/16/2011 7:18:08 PM PDT by JimmyMc
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To: kristinn

While he fights like hell to dump their retirement and health care benefits.


13 posted on 10/16/2011 7:29:55 PM PDT by ex91B10 (The only option now is mass resistance.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“The boy ALWAYS turns to the military when he runs out of ideas.”

That sissified coward doesn’t have guts enough to be a pimple on a soldier’s ass. What a worthless punk.


14 posted on 10/16/2011 8:22:22 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: kristinn
The American Jobs Act includes tax credits for long-term unemployed veterans and businesses that hire veterans with service-related disabilities.

Most of the rest of the bill is a turd sandwich.

15 posted on 10/16/2011 9:47:37 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Psalm 109:8)
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To: ex91B10

Zer0 is thee dumbest president ever. He guts the military, puts gays in, fires one of our best commanders and restricts tactics. So he throws them a bone.
He expects that will return favor to him?
Beyond the absurd. Is his military advisor Alec Baldwin


16 posted on 10/17/2011 12:45:09 AM PDT by ChiMark (chewed up his body for a decade)
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