{"id":30449,"date":"2012-06-20T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30449"},"modified":"2012-06-20T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T13:36:08","slug":"iava-wants-to-limit-vets-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30449","title":{"rendered":"IAVA wants to limit vets’ choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we’ve been reading the emails between the IAVA and members of Congress from IAVA’s little peckerhead twerp, Tom Tarantino, who is threatening to score their scorecard this year before the elections solely on the passage of S.2116, which is being called the “Military and Veterans Education Protection Act<\/a>“. The IAVA calls it “Protecting the GI Bill<\/a>“, but that’s not what it does – it actually limits your choices for the schools you can attend with your GI Bill money. According to Tarantino;<\/p>\n

The 90-10 rule was created to allow the free market to regulate for-profit schools by preventing them from being entirely government funded. Its predecessor (the 85-15 rule) helped prevent abuses to the WWII GI Bill and we must take a stand now to protect the Post-9\/11 GI Bill.<\/p>\n

The 90-10 rule says that 90% of revenue for a for-profit school can come from government funds. Due to a loophole in the law, military and veterans benefits fall in the 10% of revenue that is supposed to come from private sources. This puts a target on every veteran\u2019s back. Every veteran that a for-profit school recruits is worth nine more students using federal financial aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, government intrusion has absolutely nothing to do with “the free market”, any small ‘r’ republican can tell you that within the first minute of ECON 101. What I’ve been confused about in regards to IAVA is that seems that they’re sending mixed messages about the post-9\/11 GI Bill. When there was a Republican in the White House and they were trying to get their Democrat candidate elected, Paul Rieckhoff and Tom Tarantino were in a big rush to get the bill passed with no discussion in the Congress over the bill. When Republicans expressed concerns about it and wanted to edit the bill, the IAVA attacked them and then in the 2008 elections scored their “scorecard” solely on the passage of that bill, which stacked their approval of candidates towards members of Congress who had spent two years trying to screw the troops, except on this single issue.<\/p>\n

As soon as the bill was passed, and their guy won the election, Rieckhoff tried to get Congress to put caps on your education benefit<\/a>, because more people applied for funds than they thought and funding became untenable – one of the points Republicans made before the bill passed and one of the things Rieckhoff and company didn’t want discussed.<\/p>\n

Now Tarantino is threatening to do the same on S.2116. This from an email with which he “carpetbombed” (to use his word) Congress with a threat to score against them if they didn’t support this choice-limiting bill;<\/p>\n

Time is running out on the 112th Congress and we must act now to ensure that veterans are able to safely use their GI Bill to receive the quality job training that they have earned.<\/p>\n

Stand with us and cosponsor S. 2116. Cosponsorship and votes on S. 2116 will likely be scored on IAVA\u2019s 2012 Congressional Report Card.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, see the bill was just fine back in 2008, when IAVA wanted everyone to think they had an actual purpose and wielded some influence in Congress, and now they want to duct-tape and chicken wire the bill together with piecemeal amendments instead of doing it right the first time. First they wanted to limit your choices by capping the amount of the benefit, and now they want to tell you where you can go to school. And they’re threatening to use their false press to do it. <\/p>\n

Luckily, GovTrack predicts that the bill has only a 36% chance of passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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