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March 2, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Veteran Unemployment: The Hidden Struggles Employers Overlook
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A lot of people, not everybody, not even most, but a lot of people in our communities today losing their ever-loving minds about the federal workforce being laid off, fired, terminated, dismissed.
Whatever word you'd like to insert there, go ahead.
There's been some new information put out about veteran unemployment rates and what those are looking like thus far.
And before we get started on the information, I'd like to throw a disclaimer out.
The information that we're going to go over in today's article, if we want to call it that, I seem to think it's more of a pitch.
But in today's article, it is from one source, and their credibility has been Up for question many times in the past.
So take it for what you will.
Let's discuss it.
Let's get through it.
So stick with us.
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AmericaFirstRetirementPlan.com Okay, so veteran unemployment.
The veterans unemployment issue in this country, in my opinion, has always been an interesting topic.
I think that There's been a lot of people and organizations, especially big businesses, that have all wanted to help tackle this issue of veterans being out of work.
And I think that in that, there has also been some big businesses, and maybe even some small, but big ones for sure.
That have taken advantage of the idea that veterans need help finding, securing, and keeping meaningful, meaningful employment.
And I came to this conclusion because of my own personal experience being a recently Returning home veteran that needed to go back to work.
But I also spent four and a half-ish years working for the state of Minnesota as a veteran employment counselor.
I was a DVOP, a Disabled Veteran Outreach Program representative.
And what that is, is a federally...
Funded program that is in every state in the union who hires disabled veterans to be trained to work with other veterans to help them find work, write resumes, learn interviewing skills, teach them how to look for work, and then also learn some skills to keep work once you get it.
And not just to find a job to have a job.
I mean, of course, you run into people who they just need something because they need some income coming in, which there are those opportunities.
And to be quite frank, those are probably the clients that I remember that were the easiest to help.
They were the easiest to call up a small business or a liaison to a big business, a big store, or a big corporation, or something like that, and say, hey, you and I spoke about hiring veterans, or you talked to one of my colleagues about hiring veterans, I got somebody for you.
Boom, let's set up an interview, send them there, so then you prep this person, and you send them, hopefully they get the job, and they got some income coming in.
But then you also had the individuals who weren't necessarily the veterans who were returning home right now.
We also got veterans who were Vietnam-era veterans.
We also got veterans who were Gulf War-era veterans.
And we also got a lot of vets who were peacetime veterans of all ages.
And those ones were a little bit more challenging.
Not because they're old.
Not because they're stuck in their ways or whatever the case may be, but because these were individuals who were maybe in a career, were coming out of employment, maybe laid off, or maybe are looking for a career change, something like that.
But it needs to be meaningful employment, of course, but something that's going to pay them well.
They have become accustomed to a high quality of work, higher paying positions, and so they need help finding those types of positions.
And so those were a little more challenging, which became a little more fun, to be quite honest, because that gave us the ability to go out into the community.
And talk to different types of businesses and different types of employers that maybe they didn't know the advantages of hiring veterans.
But a lot of employers also didn't quite understand some of the challenges to hiring veterans.
And I believe that that is a conversation to be had with potential employers of any business, any corporation, any employer that's looking to hire veterans needs to also understand that they come with challenges.
We, we come with challenges.
And so those are things that also need to be talked about.
Yes, you're going to get individuals who have managed large groups of people.
You're going to get individuals who have had to keep track of a lot of equipment that equates to millions and millions of dollars and keep it all organized and make sure that it gets to the right people and then getting it back to turn into the proper folks to make sure it's all accounted for.
You're going to get people that are able to make decisions on their feet.
Sometimes, you know, you need somebody that's going to make a decision and roll with it and see it through.
It may not always be the right decision, but some decision in some cases is better than making no decision at all.
So you're going to get people that can do that, that operate sometimes maybe better under stress.
Then in calm.
A lot of veterans find comfort in chaos, especially in an employment situation, depending on the job, which is probably why we see a lot of veterans going into emergency services, paramedics, firefighters, cops, civilian pilots, things of that nature.
Because they all require you to think on your feet, act quickly, selflessly, most of the time.
And just get the job done.
Get it done, get it over with, clean it up if need be, and move on to the next one.
Those are things that you get.
And the list goes on.
There's a lot of positives.
You're going to get loyalty, team players.
There's just all kinds of stuff.
But remember that we're talking about the same population of people, the same community, the same culture of people that have taken human life.
Some of us, multiple times.
Some people had to take the lives of children and women.
Some of us had to watch our brothers or sisters die next to us.
Some of us have mental health issues from these things.
Some of us were blown up.
Some of us were shot.
Some of us lost limbs.
All of us.
All of us were willing to sacrifice everything.
Sacrifice it all.
So all of us, in one way or another, at one point in our lives, were extremely, extremely selfless.
So those are a couple examples of what you're going to get.
And I don't think that we always have that conversation in particular.
I think conversations go with, hey, we should hire a bunch of veterans because we're going to get all these great things.
But we don't talk about the other baggage that might come with the people that we hire from this community, from this culture, from the warrior culture.
That's not talked about as much.
And so it becomes disappointing.
For employers, it becomes disappointing for people that think that they're doing a really great thing by hiring all these vets, but they don't understand the challenges.
Well, we didn't think of this.
Yeah, I don't know if we're going to hire any more veterans.
I don't know if we can keep these guys.
And at the end of the day, maybe we can't blame them.
Maybe we can't blame them if we didn't have the proper conversations with these employers.
And they were blindsided by some of these things.
And if something happened that they just can't keep said person employed, well, then they got to do what they got to do.
And then we need to wrangle in our people and train them and get them on to the next thing, the next job, the next opportunity, and make them better than they were the last time.
You see, we have discussions like this on Disgruntled over on the Three Clicks Media page on YouTube all the time about These expectations over reality.
We can expect all these great things.
We can expect that the job is going to get done.
We can expect what we're told to expect based on conversations with the experts.
And then when those expectations aren't quite met or The other side of the coin is a surprise.
Well, then there's disappointment.
Well, we didn't know about this part.
We didn't know that this was going to be an issue.
Yeah, that's a tough population.
I remember being told by an employer once that we were working with.
To try to get a few of our clients in, I believe it was like a flooring business or sheetrock, something, some kind of construction or manual labor business, and they were looking for laborers.
And I can remember that we had like five or six people across a few different offices.
A few different workforce centers in the metro area here in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
And it would have been a great fit.
It would have been amazing.
And two of the guys were able to start right away.
But of course, three days in, there was some issue with punctuality or something like that.
It turned out that the fella who was late now, two days out of his first three days, was having some pretty gnarly nightmares and issues, PTSD things.
And then he had injured himself while having a nightmare, acting it out, sleepwalking, or I forget what they call it, night terrors or something.
And that's why he was late.
Well, okay, the employer, sympathetic, however, can't have that.
And the conversation with him, between him and I, was, you know, if we would have known that this might have been a potential issue, we probably just wouldn't have picked them for this particular job.
Maybe we have some things coming up in a few weeks that we could use these fellas for.
Because when they're here, they're motivated and they work hard and they're good guys to have around.
But we just can't, you know, it holds up the whole job and then the day goes longer and everyone else gets pissed off that was here.
You know, so it's a whole thing.
It disrupts the whole crew.
And so, not only was his time wasted, but now these guys who went there to work, The one in particular, now he's down.
Now he feels like he's lower than whale shit.
And it's hard to pick yourself up by those bootstraps when you're that low.
Is it possible?
Yes, of course it's possible.
And he did.
Long story short, he moved on.
To the best of my knowledge, he's doing great.
He learned from the experience, which is fantastic, but not everybody does.
But the point is that if we would have had that conversation, we probably would have found a better fit.
He wouldn't have had to feel like a shitbag because he got fired because he was having nightmares and couldn't be on time.
Whatever the case may be.
And we wouldn't have had to go through all of that.
And so when I say all of this stuff, There is two sides, and both of those sides need to be discussed.
It's always been my feeling since I did that work.
There is a boatload of benefits for any business to hire veterans.
I will always sing from the mountaintops to that point.
But you also have to understand the challenges.
And if you're ready for it and you can discuss it openly and honestly with that person, it's way less of an issue.
You just have to know it up front.
And if you're willing to work with them through it, they will figure it out and they will come around and they will make it right for you and with you.
But you have to, you gotta work with them.
And so some people just don't have time for that.
Some employers, they don't have time for that.
And I get it.
Who can blame them?
It's a busy world.
And there's a lot of shit happening.
And the world doesn't stop.
The world doesn't stop spinning because veterans are unemployed.
I think that it's a great thing that there are Programs out there that are trying to do this work.
My personal opinion is that sometimes there's too many chiefs and that water gets muddy.
And there's a lot of promises made by a lot of different organizations and things get just blown up.
And then nobody gets any help.
Man, well, so that was like my opening monologue, right?
18 minutes long.
We only have a few minutes in the segment, but let's try to get through some of this article here.
It's titled, Disabled Vets Continue to Struggle Finding Post-Military Employment.
So like I said, keep in mind that this information, the data, comes from one organization that's not a government organization, which might be better than coming from a government organization in today's day and age.
But it's only one.
It's only one piece of data.
So here we go.
Let's check this out.
Disabled veterans continue to struggle to find jobs despite national efforts to help bring them back into the civilian workforce, according to a new survey released by the Wounded Warrior Project.
And this was released Thursday, the 27th of February.
The report, based on responses in summer of 2023, surveyed 19,000 veterans connected to the program.
And it gives a snapshot of continued struggles that veterans with serious injuries face years after their military service, even if their medical needs are being addressed.
Interesting.
Nearly 40% of veterans in the Wounded Warrior Project survey did not have full-time work, although only about 12% are actively looking for work.
And would qualify for unemployment insurance from whatever state that they're in.
That figure is on par with past surveys by the group, but it sits well above the average for veterans with disabilities.
In the summer of 2023 was around 3.6.
So vets who have...
No disability claim, no VA claim, none of that.
Just the dudes who went in, maybe they served 10 years, got out, everything was good.
Their unemployment rate is around 3.6%.
Now, civilians disabled, disabled civilians across America is at about 7.4%.
And all these numbers were summer of 2023. So this is what I mean, right?
Like, this is just Wounded Warrior Project.
And this is 19,000 veterans that they surveyed.
And Wounded Warrior Project has been in question multiple times.
I believe that they've done some pretty decent work.
I believe that at their top levels is where they've had some shitbaggery happen.
But I think that these numbers are pretty darn high.
I think it's high.
12% of...
The 19,000 are unemployed and are actively looking for work and would also qualify for unemployment.
I'm sorry, 40% of these 19,000 do not have full-time work.
So they left out information.
Are these 40% of these veterans, are they getting VA disability?
Are they getting a pension from the Department of Defense?
Do they qualify for a concurrent receipt?
What is their status?
Do they get CRSC money?
Were there injuries related to combat?
Were they medically retired?
Are they getting a couple different payments from the government?
And so, like, it's just hard to take in all the data without other data to support it.
I mean, I don't know, man.
Despite the unique training and skills Wounded Warrior Project warriors receive while in the military, they still experience challenges while seeking other employment opportunities.
The report states, among Wounded Warrior Project Warriors currently employed.
52.2% reported at least one barrier that makes it difficult to obtain employment or change jobs.
Okay.
I think a lot of people have that.
And so we can...
This is why I get frustrated, because we talk about all these numbers, but we never read any information.
We never hear any other kind of information, any videos, any news.
We never hear anything about what the solution is.
What are we doing to help these people?
Instead of reporting on the percentage of them that have barriers to employment.
We already know that they have barriers to employment.
We, as a nation, anybody who's been interested in veterans' unemployment, have been talking about barriers to employment for many years.
So what are we going to do about it?
This news comes as, here we go, here's where I found it to get interesting.
The news comes as President Donald Trump's administration looks to cut back on the federal workforce.
Traditionally, a friendly environment for job-seeking veterans and disabled veterans looking for work.
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, the federal government employed more than 337,000 disabled veterans in fiscal year 2021. About two-thirds of whom had a disability rating of 30% or more.
Why are we talking about this from 21 when all the other numbers we're talking about are 2023?
What did OPM report in 2023?
How many disabled veterans did the federal government employ in 2023 that had a 30% rating or more?
Was it more than 337,000 or was it a lot less?
I'm guessing if it was more or at that number, we would have heard.
I'm guessing it's a lot less.
And I think that a large part of that has a lot to do with things other than we're just discriminating against people and we're firing everybody because we have a new administration.
I'm guessing there's...
There's other things at play there.
So, like, those are the types of things that I'm talking about.
Like, why is all the data that we're being given, why is it not from the same period?
Why is it not from the same year?
Is this a report OPM only puts out every so often?
Do they not have 2022 and 2023 complete yet?
But we have all these other numbers.
OPM also releases unemployment numbers, them and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
OPM has a part in all that.
They've got to provide information to get those numbers out.
So anyway, let's stop here.
We've got to take a break.
We're over time.
We'll be right back.
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23, 2023 is where we got the unemployment numbers from.
So it would be interesting to see what the number for 2023 was of how many disabled vets were working for the federal government.
I'm willing to bet it was less or we would have got the information.
But here's another twist that I found interesting as we go on.
Next paragraph reads.
Whether the administration's potential cuts will increase unemployment among wounded veterans remains unclear.
The Wounded Warrior Project report said nearly one in four veterans in their survey listed their main barrier to finding stable work as mental health issues or psychological distress factors that exist regardless of the job market.
Okay, so here is the point in the article where they start to refer to disabled veterans as wounded veterans.
Now, I'm not one for semantics, really.
But I think that people that read this may be.
There is a difference if you ask the common, everyday person who's not really up on veteran and military lingo.
If I were to tell somebody, do you know what the difference between a disabled veteran and a wounded veteran is?
Some people are going to say, well, aren't they the same?
I mean, if you're disabled, you're wounded, right?
I would assume you got wounded to get disabled.
Which would be correct.
But it is also possible to be a disabled vet without being wounded in combat.
And so, they slowly...
And now in the next paragraph, start to change the wording.
And so, maybe it's not important.
And maybe it's just one of those things like when you watch military movies and the uniforms are all screwed up and it kind of just irks you.
Maybe it's that type of thing.
So, anyway.
But let's get to the actual information.
They said nearly one in four veterans in their survey listed their main barrier to finding stable work as mental health issues or psychological distress.
I think that a lot more than one in four probably have some kind of mental health barrier.
And I'm not the kind of guy to slap a label on everybody.
And maybe saying that more than one out of four have a mental health barrier is wrong.
Maybe I shouldn't classify everyone that way.
But what I do think is that once you commit, To the lifestyle.
Once you commit to the idea, once you commit to the program of the United States military, and you train, you go through basic training, whatever that looks like for the branch that you decide to pick, and you graduate from that as Let's use the Army, for example, because that's what I know.
When you graduate Army basic training, you're now a soldier.
And I don't know what basic training is like now.
And I'm sure that people of Gulf War era and the Vietnam era would say that my generation of basic training was for sissies.
But I can say that those drill sergeants really tried to break you down.
Break you down to the studs and rebuild you in the image of whatever the United States Army said you should be.
And it changes you.
It changes the way that you think.
About the world around you.
It changes the way that you think about the people around you and the situations that you find yourself in.
All of that is different.
You're not the same person.
You may be able to display the same person, but the things going on in your mind...
The things that you feel and the way that you process information around you is different.
And then once you move on from that and you get to your duty station and you live that for a while, that changes you.
How could it not?
You're in a new place.
You're with new people.
You're doing a new job.
You're starting a new life.
You're not the same.
Now, I'm not insinuating that it's not good.
I'm not insinuating that it changes you in a negative way, that it's a negative thing.
But you're not the same.
You're not supposed to be.
Because remember, the whole job of this training regimen and the whole purpose of this new lifestyle and this whole way of living and working and breathing and moving and working together and navigating life is completely new.
And then if you're a person, In the army that gets sent to a foreign land to fight.
Let's say you get deployed to fight.
You're a thousand percent a different person.
Again, those experiences, those highs and those lows, The really good times.
The laughs.
The good feeling that you have with your team.
The time that you realize this moment will never happen again.
It'll never be like this ever again.
It changes you.
I can remember thinking a few times on deployment.
You get all the team, you get all the guys together.
We had one girl on our team.
You get all the guys and our mom together.
And we're sitting around and we're smoking cigarettes and we're eating food and we're throwing shit at each other and we're talking and having a good time.
Talking about the mission that we just finished.
And I can remember a couple times thinking to myself, man, this is sweet.
This is really awesome.
I love this right now.
But this will never happen again.
We, as a team, collectively, we will never have this again.
And so just as quick as you built it, as you were a part of it, you gotta grieve it.
You gotta shove it away.
And you have to just make sure that it's a memory you don't forget.
Maybe you don't even grieve it at that time.
Maybe you just put it away to think about later.
But this idea that anybody goes in and comes out unscathed or unchanged Is a farce.
In my opinion.
I think that veterans, everyone hides it differently if they choose to.
Everyone deals with it in a different way.
But when it all comes down to it, when we're talking about unemployment and veterans seeking work, And what their barriers really are?
Yeah, some of it's mental health or psychological distress, if you want to call it that.
But I think one of the biggest barriers is that folks are just looking for a similar fit.
They're looking for a similar feeling.
They're looking for a similar team to be on.
Something where they can go to work and think, man, I really like being here.
I like the people I work with.
They're searching for those times, maybe, that in the past they thought, we'll never have this again.
So I better cherish it.
I better not do anything to fuck this up.
And then, for some people, something happens.
Something gets in the way.
Something messes it up.
And what we're not good at doing is learning how to recover from that.
Because that is seen as rejection.
Not necessarily by individual people, but just rejection of the circumstance, maybe.
Failure.
Because part of this being on a team and having these These awesome, and let's face it, these horrible, not so great feelings also.
Part of it is that you just don't want to give it up.
You just don't want to let it go.
But you also can't let...
Other things go.
And so, like, the space gets so convoluted and full.
It gets so full of bullshit.
Happy times and bullshit.
The things that you must do for those of us with children or aging parents.
You have to do that.
You have to take care of your kids.
You have to make sure they eat.
You have to make sure they have shelter.
You have to make sure they got clothes on their back and they get to school and they're learning and they're thriving the best way that you can.
And so there's a lot of stuff there.
And so I believe that it all becomes overwhelming.
So call it psychological distress.
Yeah, maybe that's true.
Maybe it's very true.
But I don't know that we have as a population of people that are trying to help veterans find meaningful employment.
I don't know if we have.
All of the correct conversations.
Because some of them are hard.
Some of these conversations are hard to have.
Because what also we are really good at is having a short temper when we don't want to have a conversation to get out of it.
And so I'll tell you, I haven't taken part in any Wounded Warrior Project programming in a long, long time.
Not ever since they had that falling out with their executives and they're pocketing all this money and veterans are needy and they said they were going to help, but they didn't and all this other crap.
It was all in the news and all this other stuff.
I haven't had anything to do with them since then.
But I do know that the U.S. Department of Labor Vets Program, which I was a part of for four and a half years,
traveled all over this country to train, to talk to veterans who are coming home from overseas about finding work.
They do a great job.
They do a really good job.
Everybody that works in those positions are all disabled veterans.
You have to be to get that job, which helps a lot because it helps when you get a client that's sitting across the desk from you that is also struggling to try to get VA benefits and juggle that.
They're trying to find a job.
They're trying to find housing that they can afford.
They're trying to find some help for their kids.
They're trying to find this.
They're trying to find that.
Someone to fix their car.
Someone to help them repair their furnace so they can have heat this winter.
I mean, when it rains, it pours, folks.
And I think everyone knows that.
Everyone can relate to that.
And so we would get clients in our workforce center, man, that they got laid off last month, and then one of their kids got sick and is in the hospital for a month, and the furnace went out, and the frickin' axle on the car just cracked, and they can't drive.
I mean, there were some people that were coming in, and no shit had three catastrophes happen to them in a matter of...
Two and a half weeks or three weeks or even one week sometimes.
But having folks that have had the same or similar issues be the one that's going to say, hey, let's make a checklist, man.
Let's prioritize these issues, which are first, and let's build a checklist and we'll just go down.
And so sometimes you end up shifting from employment counselor to just let's just work through all these things, man.
Like we got access to resources.
We could send you to this person or that person that can get you help maybe to fix your car.
And this person might know a handyman that might be able to help you with your furnace for super cheap or maybe even free and donate some time to veterans in the community.
There's all kinds of stuff like that happening.
It's all over.
But see, the people that are there to provide those types of resources to veterans in need have had those tough conversations that we talked about in the beginning of the show.
They know.
They know that being sometimes, that sometimes being a veteran Is not an advantage.
Being a protected class isn't always an advantage.
Because there's steps to everything.
And that's not a horrible thing.
These types of benefits and programs, they need to be safeguarded so they're not abused.
But sometimes they just don't work very fast to get people The help that they need, that they're qualified for, that are trying to secure the help that's offered to them.
But I think that articles like this, they don't give an accurate depiction of what the real issue is.
The author of this piece of content, in my opinion, Didn't get good data.
I believe if he would have compared and contrasted data from a few different resources, that it might have looked a little bit different.
But then here at the end, when they start to get into what seemingly is calling out the president for laying people off and potentially laying off a bunch of disabled veterans, Well, disabled veterans aren't immune to being inefficient.
Anybody who is working in the federal government, to the best of my knowledge, the way I understand the things that this doge is doing, anybody who's not worth their salt has got to go.
And so are they going to make special provisions for disabled vets?
Maybe.
But I don't think that we should be surprised.
If you're not cutting it, you're not cutting it.
I mean, we, this culture, this community of people, Should know that better than anybody.
When you were wearing a uniform, if you weren't cutting it, did you hear about it?
Were you told, you better figure it out or you're going to go somewhere else?
Were you told, if you don't figure it out, we're going to start chapter paperwork and get you out of this army because you don't provide what you're supposed to do here?
Why is anybody surprised by that?
I think that we as a country, the majority of the country, elected this man, Donald Trump, to be president Donald Trump, to be president on promises he made.
He made.
To clean up the federal government.
To bring transparency.
To figure out where the fuck all of our money has gone.
To figure out what's happening internationally and how we're involved.
And do we need to be involved?
We voted for all of this.
So why is anybody upset about it now?
Because you didn't think ahead?
We don't get to ask people to change the rules and then dictate how they change them.
I mean, shit.
You don't have to.
We.
Don't have to like the man.
We don't even have to agree with him all the time.
But we certainly should be identifying the fact that he's doing what the American people, the majority of the American people, asked him to do.
These are the things that he campaigned on.
And so for that, I give him my respect.
He's doing what he said he was going to do.
you.
And then we all voted for it.
Was it the lesser of two evils?
Maybe.
Is it going to be a great thing for this country?
Could be.
I think it'll definitely turn out better than what the alternative was.
Hands down.
No doubt about it.
So, at the end of the day, veterans unemployment has been an issue that has been tracked for many, many years.
There is a lot of people working on the issue, both in the government and outside the government.
Civilian nonprofits and organizations that are working to exclusively find veterans jobs.
But at the end of the day, folks, if we want to find meaningful employment for veterans that they can step into, they can learn, they can stay and build careers, And in turn, build a better life for themselves?
I think that we'd be way better off in this whole situation.
But if we keep just talking about the number of people that are in hell's kitchen that are just flailing.
Without talking about how we're going to lift them up.
All we hear mention of is that there's programs out there that are aiming to do this and knock down the number by this.
Yeah, but do what?
And are we having these proper conversations with employers?
Because at the end of the day, the bureaucrats and the CEOs of Big businesses can say all the bullshit they want.
They can say whatever they want.
But the real results come at the lowest level.
The people that are hiring these folks and the veterans themselves.
If the people that are hiring these veterans and then have to manage them day to day don't understand what they're getting, both good and bad, It's not an advantageous relationship for either party.
And it's not going to end in the favor of either party.
So when we talk about this, if you or anybody you know is somebody that deals with this stuff or talks about it or is interested, please help them to understand that there's two sides to the coin when it comes to veterans' employment.
The overall synopsis is that hiring vets is a great thing and you will get amazing, amazing results from them.
But you also have to understand the challenges and be prepared, if you're willing, to work through those challenges with that person and either make it work or don't.
But you have to understand that those exist and they will show their face.
And if you can work through it, you'll have a great employee that will be loyal and will protect your business and your best interest as much as they can.
So it is advantageous to you as an employer.
And there's no reason.
There's no reason that veterans should be homeless.
There's no reason they should be jobless if they don't want to be.
And part of all of it, too, is that veterans need to advocate for themselves also better.
But that's a whole other show.
But we've lost time today.
We're out of it.
I want to thank you all for joining us.
We'll be back with you next week.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Take care of yourselves and we will see you pretty soon.
Good night.
As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied.
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over, and instead we're just sending them money, and it's fucking craziness.
Look at the state of Israel, look at the state of Tel Aviv, and look at the state of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going, you tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle.
Fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God, go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign state, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the line and say, we stand with them.
We stand with them.
You can look at Trump's cabinet.
You can look at Biden's cabinet.
It's for Jews.
I have a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I'd just like to say that, you know, in our Bible it says that you're like animals.
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