Second Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families

Soldiers are draining out of Iraq, and some are starting a very slow draw down in Afghanistan, now and till the end of December as that war of choice finally ends but not for the Iraqi's. Some will transfer to Military bases in the region others elsewhere, some will continue serving others will leave the Military and join our ranks in the Veterans Community. With the economy still in collapse and stagnated jobs and small business growth being frozen, as the supply side capitalist aren't following their own architects of the new capitalism economic investment and growth plans, the community of the country, but especially well trained Military personal in many job needs and more then just leadership and chain of command structure, is a wealth of experience that once again can and should be tapped. It was after WWII and not so much as we came back from Korea and Vietnam and the decades since. The only way it can be successful is by the Country they serve finally Sacrifice and uphold the contracts the soldiers sign onto in service to Country and Constitution. The tepublicans in congress {no longer should one call them republican especially them, they disappeared a couple of decades back} are still maintaining many of their tried and true practices like obstruction and not enough funding for agencies, while laying blame on same agencies on negative news or policies they don't like, or rollbacks in funding recently given like the GI Bill only a few years old, Deja-Vu all over again, with the help of some democratic congressional representative.

Program Helps Families of Wounded, Fallen Start Businesses

Nov. 3, 2011 – Later this month, a group of 17 family members who care for wounded warriors, as well as surviving spouses of fallen service members, will gather at Syracuse University in New York to learn how to start and run their own businesses.

Syracuse’s Whitman School of Management will host its second Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families smack in the middle of Military Family Appreciation Month.

The program is a spin-off to a similar program Syracuse and six other universities offer for disabled veterans.

Participants -- family caregivers of post-9/11 veterans with a service-connected disability or surviving spouses or adult children of service members who died since 9/11 as a consequence of military service -- will attend the program at no charge, officials said. Syracuse University and its donors will pick up the cost of tuition as well as transportation, lodging and meals.

The goal, explained Tina Kapral, the school’s director of education programs, is to help family members whose lives have been turned upside down by loss or a loved one’s disability get back on their feet and provide for themselves and their families.

For many, entrepreneurship may be the perfect solution, she said. It offers the opportunity to pursue a rewarding career while maintaining the flexibility they may need to work around their loved ones’ medical appointments and other care-giving responsibilities.

“Our goal is to allow these family members to find a financial path forward and some financial stability for themselves and their families,” Kapral said. read more>>>

In these recent years, especially with the supply side capitalist collapse of the economy and little in investment towards growth, and with an all volunteer Military we allowed the decimation of law and the purpose of the well trained Citizen Militia's, the National Guard and the Military Reserves. Promised that if they serve their Country and States, for a couple of weeks a year, and if called into the active Military their jobs they held would be saved for their return, the Country made promises they've destroyed. Many of these Citizen soldiers have served multiple tours in either one of these theaters or both, same as their brother and sister regular Military. Some not only had jobs but small businesses, successful small businesses or growing small businesses, some of those were transferred to family or friends to run some collapsed and because of the call ups to active duty couldn't be rebuilt, and in this economy what once was as to their customers is no more.

The only way we can rebuild an economy that truly functions for all is by Government Investments, with especially funding coming from new revenue contributions from those supply side capitalist 'job creators' who have created very little in job growth over the past decade especially, and especially in these soldiers and families of who have already Sacrificed so much and especially in memory of their brothers and sisters lost from these conflicts either in theater or here back at home!