And finally, Congress should help our veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan by creating a Veterans Job Corps.

WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Congress Must Act on "To-Do List"

So we should create a Veterans Job Corps that helps them find work as cops and firefighters, employees at our national parks.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on the Economy

To verify male Job Corps applicants compliance with Selective Service registration requirements.

WHITEHOUSE: Matching Programs Conducted in 1994 and 1995

Put Returning Veterans to Work Using Skills Developed in the Military: Congress needs to honor our commitment to returning veterans by passing legislation that creates a Veterans Job Corps to help Afghanistan and Iraq veterans get jobs as cops, firefighters, and serving their communities.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Although infrastructure expenses will be paid directly by the federal government (rebuilding or strengthening levees, for instance, is the job of the Army Corps of Engineers), the White House is already giving hints that it wants the post-Katrina assistance to showcase its preferred kind of government: more focus on tax incentives and vouchers than big federal hand-outs.

ECONOMIST: Hurricane Katrina

But the press corps are not fully doing their job when they just report the seasonally adjusted figure and not the other.

FORBES: Seasonally Adjustment Distorts Figures

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had the job of writing regulations to enforce the 1972 law, expanded the "waters of the United States" definition to include tributaries such as Rock Creek.

WSJ: Federal Offenses: Sewage Blunder Earns Building Engineer a Criminal Record

It's almost as if the Corps is inviting someone else to do the job.

CNN: Commentary: Does Obama care about New Orleans?

Not only by the generals, but also by the diplomatic corps over there, and they do a very thorough job.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy