I heard the CEO of Coca-Cola tonight say on Piers Morgan that

[MindMover]

they were providing last year a thousand jobs to veterans, then he changed it to 960 ....

There are 1,500,000 active duty soldiers in our military and 776,000 veterans in Georgia, the HQ of Coca Cola alone ....

THANK YOU COCA COLA for your service to our country .....

And they certainly are buttering up the Clintons as much as they can ....

Because of course they think the 99ers still believe in miracles ....

[donheld]

1. They are trying to suck up to the Military Industrial Complex

for future beverage contracts.

[Tx4obama]

2. Might be part of the initiative/program that Michelle Obama and Jill Biden started up ....

August 22, 2012

First Lady Michelle Obama Announces 125,000 Veterans & Military Spouses Hired through Joining Forces

WASHINGTON – Today, First Lady Michelle Obama traveled to Naval Station Mayport, Florida to announce that more than 2,000 businesses who have participated in her Joining Forces initiative have hired or trained more than 125,000 veterans and military spouses in the past year. Mrs. Obama also announced that these same companies have committed to build on the momentum to date and have pledged to hire or train 250,000 veterans and spouses in the coming years. The First Lady’s event at Naval Station Mayport was livestreamed by the Department of Defense to every U.S. military base around the world.

-snip-

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/22/first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-125000-veterans-military-spouses-hir

[xfundy]

3. Jobs? Paying minimum wage, or living wages?

Don't know if you've heard, but Coca-Cola and other crap like that rots teeth and has a powerful PR machine. Their interests are completely different from those they sell their liquid crap to.

And "buttering up the Clintons" -- what does that even mean?

If they put butter on anything, Rush and Paula Deen will eat it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Is Coke trying to displace Pepsi at the PXs?

It's good PR.

[Earth_First]

5. I'm sorry, but a corporation like Coca Cola

with their staunch anti-union, anti-environmental track record in South America (and elsewhere) doesn't do *anything* out of sheer benevolence.

There's a Public Relations angle to this.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

[B Calm]

6. When I came home from Vietnam, a friend and I applied for a job at Quaker Oats

in Danville, Illinois. We filled out applications together and on the wall was a sign saying that they hired veterans.

My friend was not a veteran and was also a high school drop out, just the opposite of me. He was hired. . .