Marcy Kaptur: “I want to thank Congressman Garamendi for, again, bringing us together to discuss the most important issue on the minds…”

“I want to thank Congressman Garamendi for, again, bringing us together to discuss the most important issue on the minds of the American people, and that is healing the economy here at home and producing a sufficient number of jobs to employ all Americans who want to work. And I join the Congressman's comments about our veterans, veterans who have served our country so bravely, a great sense of self-sacrifice and national sacrifice. We thank them, particularly during this holiday season, their families, their children, their relatives, their friends, their communities, all their employers, all of those who understand what this requires. And I wanted to just mention that, in connecting our veterans coming home to the employment question, it's a very serious challenge that we face because, even in a State like Ohio, currently, of all those who remain unemployed in Ohio, and there are many, 52,000 are veterans, already. And it was correct, I think, for President Obama, in going to visit with our veterans and active military at this holiday season, that one of the issues that came up repeatedly was, well, with our veterans coming home, where are they going to work with so many unemployed already? And to give an example, in Ohio and many other parts of the country, for every job that exists, 100 people apply or more. And even if we filled every job that exists, we would have millions of Americans still out of work.…”