So congress just passed a bill that will reward employers for hiring unemployed veterans. Now, I am all for helping the troops, but I find this particular tactic interesting. They say that the returning vets have a disproportionately high unemployment rate? Why is that? Rather than paying employers to hire them, why don't we find out what's holding them back. Maybe we need to do more to make sure that they are not broken (physically and emotionally) when they return to civilian life.
I will not go so far as to say that this is a grand conspiracy, but I will allow that it could just be a fortuitous (for some) unintended consequence. If there is an angry mob at your ivory tower, which are the ones who are the greatest threat? The big guys, the tough guys, the ones with combat experience, the professional soldiers. With this Occupy Wall Street movement starting to scare the 'haves', getting the soldiers out of the masses will help neuter the mob.
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