they have gained from tex appearance. but we are one teem team. we need to pass it on to the civilians who deal with with veterans all the time. what advice would you give to civilians? hire veterans. i get confused when organizations say we must hire veterans as if it is charity. it s not. these are the best people you can find. they are young people with authority and responsibility well in advance of their age. you can t find anybody better or more experienced. colonel jack thank you very much. jen silva, thank you very much for joining us from florida. thank you for your service to the nation and your continued service with the wounded warrior project. thank you. we ll be right back. coming up next on taking the hill, how justin timberlake and jay-z parody video helps pump up the teams before a big army-navy
i was wounded and recovered at walter reed with other wounded warriors. some of us had obvious injuries. others had scars on the inside that were less visible, but no less real. at the hospital, i realized my new responsibility, to honor the buddies who saved me by serving our military men and women and i became the director of the illinois department of veterans affairs. we led the nation in screening for traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress and we created a tax credit for illinois businesses that hire veterans. then president obama asked me to help keep our sacred trust with veterans of all eras at the us department of veterans affairs. we worked to end the outrage of veterans having to sleep on the
and almost almost a year into my tour, i was wounded and recovered with other wound eed some of us has obvious injuries. others had scars on the inside there were less visible. at the hospital, i realized my new responsibility, to honor the buddies who saved me by serving our military men and women and i became the director of the illinois department of veterans affairs. we led the nation in screening for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress and we created a tax credit for illinois businesses that hire veterans. then president obama asked me to help keep our sacred trust for veterans of all eras at the u.s.
president obama, it s no secret his campaign knows they will have to fight hard when it comes to veteran voters. president obama lost the veteran vote back to john mccain in 2008, 54-44%. so you have seen him making a pitch to veteran voters, not just on days like today when he s speaking to the dfw but when he s traveled to key battleground states like virginia, like north carolina. his strategy seems to be to tout what he sees to be some of his strengths, including creating tax credits for companies that hire veterans, also calling on congress to create a veterans jobs corps as well as drawing down wars in iraq and afghanistan and capturing and killing osama bin laden. those are some of the themes we hear president obama reiterate when he speaks to some of those groups. as you mentioned he announced that transition gps program which will help veterans find work. as you know, thomas, mitt romney also going after the veteran
look, we have no choice whether we pay down our deficit. but we do have a choice about how we pay down our deficit. we do have a choice about what we can do without and where our priorities lie. i don t believe that giving someone like me a $250,000 tax cut is more valuable to our future than hiring transformative teachers or provide financial aid to the children of a middle class family. i don t believe that tax cut is more likely to create jobs than providing loans to new entrepreneurs or tax credits to small business owners who hire veterans. i don t believe it s more likely to spur economic growth than investments in clean energy technology and medical research or in new roads and bridges and runways.