{"id":27401,"date":"2011-11-10T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27401"},"modified":"2011-11-10T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:16:22","slug":"hey-dicksmith-whats-up-with-harry-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27401","title":{"rendered":"Hey, dicksmith, what’s up with Harry Reid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we wrote about VetVoice and Votevets<\/a> complaining that the new Republican Congress hasn’t been able to create favorable employment conditions for veterans. Right after I wrote that TSO found an instance that the new Congress had indeed passed a bill to improve the employability of veterans in the form of the “Veterans Opportunity To Work Act<\/a>” almost a month ago;<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

The House legislation, passed by 400 lawmakers, wouldn’t actually create jobs. Rather, it would overhaul the military’s Transition Assistance Program, creating a job retraining program for older veterans who have been unemployed for 26 weeks or more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, Harry Reid is holding up a vote in the Senate. Harry Reid, a draft dodger to whom VoteVets contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars because of his supposed support for veterans wants to attach a tax break for employers who hire veterans<\/a>…a good idea, but since the House hasn’t voted on it yet, that move would delay activation of the other provisions of the bill.<\/p>\n

But my point is that if VoteVets is so concerned about Congressional inaction, why aren’t they trying to influence “their” candidate to pass the bill as it is and get immediate relief for veterans instead allowing Harry Reid to dick around with popular legislation that’s just sitting on his desk? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we wrote about VetVoice and Votevets complaining that the new Republican Congress hasn’t been able … Hey, dicksmith, what’s up with Harry Reid?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}