Considering the company employees more than 250,000 people, that's really not a lot. Obviously it's more than nothing, but that is hardly a huge number to be bragging about, or complaining about in the case of the OP.
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Well, veterans aren't really a big percentage of the general population, so I think it's roughly proportional
24% of the male population are Veterans, while 2% of the female population are. Even averaging that at to 3% total population, those numbers are still hardly proportional.
Why is there a red arrow by my question? It was a serious question. 7.2% of the US population are black women while 7.3% of the US population are veterans. Every time you go out in public and encounter ten black women it is just as likely you encountered ten vets.
You have to consider that a lot of those veterans are quite old, having served in the vietnam war, korea war, or even ww2. Most starbucks employees aren't that old in my experience, and of course many of the older veterans may already be retired
I have an opinion and opinions are like assholes because everyone has one.
As soon as you start to even begin to say anything even remotely construable as being against refugees and immigration, you are automatically branded as racist.
I'm not racist. I believe in the diversity of this nation, but it must be approached carefully and correctly.
If you don't, you need to be found and sent home. If it is asylum you are seeking, there are ways to approach that too.
The bottom line here is that I think that employment offers need to me made to citizens and legal immigrants/work visa holders FIRST.
Preferential treatment for veterans? You're goddamned right. It's an incentive to serve and it helps because Uncle Sam sure as shit ain't taking care of us otherwise.
Now go on. Bring the downvotes and comments accusing me if being nationalist, racist and a supremacist... just becasue immigration needs reform.
Dammit @smitty, you pussyfooted around and gave the obvious answer that I would have given but would have been downvoted for giving. I wanted your input on the percentages of veterans and the accuracy of a poll asking about service and recording stolen valor as earned valor vs VA data cited to compose an answer.
My opinion on the numbers?
Fuck the VA and anything they say.
The most recent controversy of vets dying waiting for care, the one that saw retired general Shinseki ousted as the direcror for? That offended me and not for the reason people think.
It offended me because the public was surprised. The mistreatment of veterans is a time honored tradition as old as this nation. Oh, it gets put in the media spotlight owing to some investigative journalism and you get pissed now? Just because it's fallen of the news cycle, doesn't mean that the problem was solved.
We volonteer for to serve our country often for a job, an opportunity, to escape a dead end life... and those fat cocksucking bastards in DC politicize our pay, our equipment and our care.
Count it however you like. Just don't use the VA numbers. The number who served is much higher than what they report.
You serve and get discharged, you count. It's as simple as that.
The military fucks you in more ways than just getting sent into combat.
Earned valor? Stolen valor? Don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Maybe I didn't read enough of what was in those links, but I don't see a difference in beaking a leg on an obstacle course stateside and you get discharged because you can't walk straight now versus taking a bullet in a combat zone.
Getting more people more jobs is always good.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/158729/men-women-veterans.aspx
As soon as you start to even begin to say anything even remotely construable as being against refugees and immigration, you are automatically branded as racist.
I'm not racist. I believe in the diversity of this nation, but it must be approached carefully and correctly.
If you don't, you need to be found and sent home. If it is asylum you are seeking, there are ways to approach that too.
The bottom line here is that I think that employment offers need to me made to citizens and legal immigrants/work visa holders FIRST.
Preferential treatment for veterans? You're goddamned right. It's an incentive to serve and it helps because Uncle Sam sure as shit ain't taking care of us otherwise.
Now go on. Bring the downvotes and comments accusing me if being nationalist, racist and a supremacist... just becasue immigration needs reform.
Fuck the VA and anything they say.
The most recent controversy of vets dying waiting for care, the one that saw retired general Shinseki ousted as the direcror for? That offended me and not for the reason people think.
It offended me because the public was surprised. The mistreatment of veterans is a time honored tradition as old as this nation. Oh, it gets put in the media spotlight owing to some investigative journalism and you get pissed now? Just because it's fallen of the news cycle, doesn't mean that the problem was solved.
We volonteer for to serve our country often for a job, an opportunity, to escape a dead end life... and those fat cocksucking bastards in DC politicize our pay, our equipment and our care.
Count it however you like. Just don't use the VA numbers. The number who served is much higher than what they report.
The military fucks you in more ways than just getting sent into combat.
Earned valor? Stolen valor? Don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Maybe I didn't read enough of what was in those links, but I don't see a difference in beaking a leg on an obstacle course stateside and you get discharged because you can't walk straight now versus taking a bullet in a combat zone.
You still served.