Thousands of U.S. Veterans Being Recruited For Jobs....In Canada!

It's amazing how life in general can turn around when the people are allowed to drill for oil.  While America languishes in an economic downspin while sitting on top of all kinds of natural resources, the Canadian province of Alberta, where oil drilling has been underway for years, is in dire straits for a workforce to come to their rescue...and now, they are looking at American military veterans as the solution to fill over 100,000 jobs in the province.

Perhaps that should be Obama's message for the 2012 campaign..."Jobs?  Oh sure, there are jobs for all of you...just move across the border to Canada!"

The article comes from CNS News.

Alberta, Canada Recruiting U.S. Veterans for 114,000 Jobs


Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and VetJobs.com announced this week a new employment initiative with the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation in Alberta, Canada that could employ thousands of U.S. veterans to help build new infrastructure in Canada.

While the initiative had initially been misreported by some media as an opportunity for U.S. veterans to land jobs on the Canada-side of the Keystone XL pipeline – a project delayed in America by the Obama administration – many veterans were already on the short list for those potential jobs and could be hired if (or when) the pipeline is approved.

In the meantime, there is an expected shortfall of 114,000 jobs in Alberta over the next decade, and the arrangement among the VFW, VetJobs.com, and the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation should help to place thousands of Americans into those positions.

Ted Daywalt, founder and CEO of VetJobs.com told CNSNews.com, “On the [July 2] press release, that was a misunderstanding; I think somebody jumped the gun. The Edmonton Economic Development Corporation came to us for, was a shortage of labor, 114,000 people short over the next couple years in skill trades.”

“They have huge infrastructure projects going on and a bunch of industrial openings up there,” he said. “In the future, it will probably be, once the Keystone gets approved, but it’s not approved.”

He continued: “Just so you know where the Keystone thing came from, VetJobs.com originally talked to the companies that were going to be doing the Keystone project until it was canceled or postponed, depending upon how you look at it. We were getting commitments of up to 40 percent of the jobs; they were going to be trying to put veterans in to.”

Governmental approval for the Keystone XL pipeline -- in its fourth year of review -- was delayed in November 2011 by President Barack Obama until sometime in 2013, after the 2012 elections. The pipeline, built by TransCanada, would run from Alberta, Canada, down through the central part of the United States to several oil refining spots on the Gulf Coast. The project is estimated to create up to 20,000 American jobs and 118,000 spin-off jobs indirectly connected to the project.

According to the American Petroleum Institute, the pipeline would bring an extra 830,000 barrels of oil per day to U.S. refineries. Our crude imports from Canada could be 4 million barrels a day by 2020.

In an email to CNSNews.com, TransCanada Senior Communications Specialist Grady Semmens wrote that the company is "still awaiting a presidential permit for the project in the United States before proceeding with construction."

"Once we receive the necessary approvals, our Keystone XL and Gulf Coast Project pipeline projects will support the creation of at least 13,000 construction jobs -- work for pipefitters, welders, electricians, heavy equipment operators, and other skilled tradespeople in the United States," said Semmens.

“They [Edmunton Economic Development Corporation] wanted veterans because veterans would have the skill sets they are looking for,” said Daywalt. “They have put a bunch of jobs up on our site and they were kind enough to let us have an exclusive initially. The jobs haven’t been up 48 hours yet, and the traffic has been amazing.”

Daywalt emphasized how important these jobs are for members of the National Guard, who are not deployed throughout their time of service.

“The jobs are paying like 24-30 percent above what they would make here in the states,” said Daywalt. “On some of the jobs they can work there and work for like three weeks and come home a full week. Other jobs, they want you to move up there.”

“We see this as a great thing for our veterans that are looking for work,” he said. “They are used to working outside the U.S., it is something we do when we get deployed. This is pretty important for the members of our National Guard.”

“They have been called up some many times for employers to hire them, so a lot of people in the National Guard or the Federal Reserve look for contract jobs, and these are wonderful contract jobs, paying a lot of money with benefits,” he said. “So it’s a win-win-win for everybody involved and that’s why we started chasing it.”

According to a VFW press release, the skilled positions available currently for veterans in Canada are long term. Some require a move to Canada, other positions would only require commuting for several weeks and then returning home for a week. The positions available include journeyman pressure pipe welders, heavy equipment technicians, steamfitter-pipefitters, structural ironworkers, millwright, and carpenters/scaffolders.

“This is a great opportunity for veterans, transitioning military, National Guard and reservists, and their family members,” Daywalt said in the VFW press release.

“This is a fantastic opportunity and I’m proud of our affiliation with VetJobs,” said VFW National Commander Richard L. Denoyer, of Middleton, Mass.

“Helping thousands of veterans to get well-paying jobs in an important industry just further proves that no one does more for veterans than the VFW,” said Denoyer.

VetJobs.com reportedly averages more than 55,000 daily job postings by employers strictly wanting to hire veterans.

OCCUPY DC vs. Employment Offers ("We won't do that")

Hat Tip to IggyMom

After more than a month of protest demands for better employment opportunities and benefits, Accuracy in Media saw fit to test their desires with...employment applications. Our "headhunters" were treated to every excuse as to why these jobs aren't good enough for them. We guess middle management opportunities with healthcare and 401k benefits aren't desirable anymore.



If you are really out of work, and need a job, you will take any job that you can find.  If necessary you will work 2, 3 or even more jobs to make ends meet.

These Moonbats want the $100K job immediately.  Not realizing that the person who has that job worked their way up the corporate ladder and EARNED that position.  Nothing was handed to him/her.  But after years of liberal education, these idiots are taught they are entitled to any thing these bastards want.  You must not destroy their self-esteem.

Also in Occupy DC we get this:



I am waiting for what one of these idiots tell us what they want to do with the Jews. Oh wait they have:



"I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country."

Ladies and Gentlemen it is 1938 and tomorrow is Kristallnact!

Coming soon to a city near you:

A Chicken In Every Pot, A Car In Every Garage, A Government Job For Every Worker.

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

This is the the new campaign slogan for the Obama Regime.  That is if Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D Ill) has his way and can get his bill passed.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.

In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the Illinois Democrat applauded President Obama for directing his staff to greenlight job-creating initiatives without congressional approval after his $447 billion jobs bill was defeated in the Senate this week.

“Now we’re making some progress,” Jackson said, comparing the legislative gridlock in Congress to the states that seceded from the union during the Civil War.

"We've seen Congress is in rebellion," he said, "determined to wreck or ruin at all costs."

Jackson said the government’s direct hiring of the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans would cost $600 billion.

“It could be a five-year program,” he said. “For another $104 billion, we bail out all of the states. For another $100 billion, we bail out all of the cities.”

“We put people to work cleaning up communities. We put people to work through a civilian conservation corps, through a Works Progress Administration because the hour demands it,” he said.

“And as more people work, they pay taxes, they pay taxes into the 4th quarter, they buy wares, they buy homes, they meet their obligations and our economy begins to work its way out of this protracted recession,” he continued. “That’s the only way out of this crisis. And I hope the president begins to continue to exercise extraordinary constitutional means based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past.”

But not everyone is convinced that Jackson's plan would work. Even a fellow Democrat has criticized it.

“In Rep. Jackson’s entire congressional career, he has never introduced a single jobs bill,” Debbie Halvorson, who is challenging Jackson in the Democratic primary, said in a written statement. “Now, he’s calling on the president to suspend the Constitution? As a representative of the people, you don’t give up when you hit a roadblock and throw the Constitution out the window – you keep working to get something done."

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Why bother even creating fake jobs, why not just give the 15 million people $40,000 out right.  No need to ask people to suck on the government teat.  No need to spend at least $804 billion a year.  If you bail out the states, the cities will that make them cut needless spending?  NO.  Will that make them take responsibility for their spending?  NO.  Will that help them to become more fiscally responsible?  NO.  All it will do is tell the mayors, the governors spend to your heart's content and don't ever worry.  Big Federal Government will always be there to bail you out.

What people want are real jobs, not slavery to the Democratic Plantation.  In their effort to increase Democratic voters they will destroy what is left of our Constitution.  This is one idea, one bill that has to be defeated.  The idea of a job, any job will be too tempting to many people.