band-aid on a wound that requires are turning to stop bleeding as they see churkin are archie gary indiana. so what was memorial day like yesterday for the more than two hundred fifty thousand women who have served in iraq and afghanistan for they get the respect they deserve are they stuck in the shadows a number of u.s. lawmakers are pushing for a change right now to the combat exclusion policy to include women to allow them technically to fight in combat you have to ask if it's the attitudes more than the policies that really need to change to discuss this with me is genevieve chase founder and executive director of american women veterans genevieve thanks so much for coming back on the show now i just want to ask you from your personal experience yesterday it was a memorial day do you feel as a woman as a veteran that you get the same type of respect the same type of acknowledgment do you get the same handshakes and the same looks from people do they really say thank you the same way as your male counterparts it's difficult because a lot of people don't look at us all the time and thin

band-aid on a wound that requires are turning to stop bleeding and is this it sure can our party gary indiana now with us from war is dare crow a brave new foundation little to right there there thank you so much for being with us i wish we were talking about a more optimistic issue but unfortunately we're not what message do you have as this country returns back from his three day weekend honoring the dead. well i mean the problem with watering the living is that once these people come home they're also often forgotten their new statistics out just this week showing that the unemployment rate for returning veterans is a two percentage point increase over the unemployment rate for non-veterans it's even worse among those who are eighteen to twenty four they have a one inside unemployment and that's because the jobs that they work when they're not in the military and the skills that they take up in the military i have been is there not marketable when they get home and those jobs takers have been really impacted by the recession so this points out not only the economic incentives that are bein

i live in detroit, buffalo, new york, not far from east cleveland, ohio, and gary indiana, east st., all of these places have been made by democrats. these people have rain of these cities into the ground with high taxation. it is a crying shame that we have to think that in order to have a vibrant economy democrats have to lead the way. they have ruined these cities and states with a crest of taxation. black children are not being educated in these schools. host: who is your candidate? caller: i like herman cain. they may call him a puppet. give me a break. president obama is a puppet. host: when a viewer calls mitt romney a brilliant conservative. guest: he probably named all of the cities hardest hit by the economright now. there is very little in the way of solutions coming forward as far as the unemplment problem is concerned. some people have stopped looking. it will be a top issue in the campaign. the low point for unemployment is 5%. now we are talking about maybe 11%. that will be a huge issue for any of the candidates, certainly president obama and anyone who wants to chal

host: the next caller is from gary, indiana, an independent. caller: the intent was to pay the money back into social security. with the state of the economy right now, how do they intend to pay back the money they are talking about borrowing from the federal workers' pension fund? it is a game of smoke and mirrors. you use a credit card to pay off another credit card. it will not be solved by that. they will have to -- the politicians are going to have to take some cuts just like the american people are taking cuts. i think if we all work together, we can bring this thing in balance. guest: number one, we have to do it because the united states has to meet its obligations. it is also true that in looking at this we cannot play cat and mouse or a game of chicken with this debt ceiling. it really is a problem for us if we default on their obligations. i think secretary gartner has done what he needs to do in this very interim measure to make sure that as politicians we have the ability and the time to get this deal right. i do not want to wake u

i live in detroit, buffalo, new york, not far from east cleveland, ohio, and gary indiana, east st. louis, all of these places have been made by democrats. these people have rain of these cities into the ground with high taxation. it is a crying shame that we have to think that in order to have a vibrant economy democrats have to lead the way. they have ruined these cities and states with a crest of taxation. black children are not being educated in these schools. host: who is your candidate? caller: i like herman cain. they may call him a puppet. give me a break. president obama is a puppet. host: when a viewer calls mitt romney a brilliant conservative. guest: he probably named all of the cities hardest hit by the economy right now. there is very little in the way of solutions coming forward as far as the unemployment problem is concerned. some people have stopped looking. it will be a top issue in the campaign. the low point for unemployment is 5%. now we are talking about maybe 11%. that will be a huge issue for any of the candidates, certainly president obama and anyone who wan

i live in detroit, buffalo, new york, not far from east cleveland, ohio, and gary indiana, east st. louis, all of these places have been made by democrats. these people have rain of these cities into the ground with high taxation. it is a crying shame that we have to think that in order to have a vibrant economy democrats have to lead the way. they have ruined these cities and states with a crest of taxation. black children are not being educated in these schools. host: who is your candidate? caller: i like herman cain. they may call him a puppet. give me a break. president obama is a puppet. host: when a viewer calls mitt romney a brilliant conservative. guest: he probably named all of the cities hardest hit by the economy right now. there is very little in the way of solutions coming forward as far as the unemployment problem is concerned. some people have stopped looking. it will be a top issue in the campaign. the low point for unemployment is 5%. now we are talking about maybe 11%. that will be a huge issue for any of the candidates, certainly president obama and anyone who wan