The article posted 2 days ago, regarding Harry Reid and the 21 House Bills sitting untouched by the Senate, noted HR 674 3% Withholding Repeal and Job Creation Act, a 4-page bill, absolutely bipartisan, and with 269 co-sponsors, as a most curious puzzle.

Section 113 of Obama's American Jobs Act, the act that also causes unemployment to become protected under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (see http://changingwind.org/index/news.php?extend.181.2), also urges a mere postponing of this withholding on government contractors that is actually repealed by HR 674, and this repeal appears to be the obvious reason for such bipartisan support, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-674.

Of course, “no good deed goes unpunished” in politics. According to news reports, “Democrats attached a provision of the AJA that benefits veterans.” It appears this was done in hopes all credit and “optics” of this story will be available to spin the credit to President Obama for the positive results of passing HR 674. Additionally, by linking a provision that actually originated in the AJA there is the erroneous appearance of 2 portions of AJA being passed, and the particular Veterans provision being passed on Veterans' Day doesn't hurt. You'll note at the above link that HR 674 was introduced in February of 2011 by Congressman Walter Herger, Republican of California.

Section 201 of the AJA is a tax credit provision that appears to be somewhat modeled on HR 561, 2 pages, no co-sponsors, and introduced by Congressman Peter Welch, a Democrat of Vermont, on February 8, 2011, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-561. And of course, there is a similar Republican bill that was introduced around the same time:

H.R. 781: Veterans' Employment Transition Support Act of 2011, 7 pages long, introduced on February 17, 2011 by Thaddeus McCotter, who, I believe, is a GOP Presidential Primary Candidate, Republican from Michigan.

Described: “To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax for hiring veterans.”

Of course then we had the unnecessary Debt Ceiling Travesty, where the Tea Party is vindicated by S&P downgrade, after a Congress that the President and his Progressive party had 2 full years of complete control over and cared only about passing Obamacare, failed to raise the debt ceiling to pay for it, and their persistent assumption that government spending must increase annually at around 40% per year. Anyone in America thinking they'll only “tax the rich” to pay for it, hasn't come to comprehend “rich” is a term of ambiguity, a moving target pursuant to the innate jealousy origin of it.

Once we were done with the public spectacle of the Republicans in the House seizing the opportunity to show spinelessness when it comes to government's primary duty: enforcing a Constitutionally Republican Limited Government, which then resulted in a political cover operation for both parties, the “Super Committee” to divide 300 million people by 12 (25 million per representative), the House returned to pursuing this Veterans Employment issue:

H.R. 2443: Tax Credit to Hire Veterans Act of 2011, 5 pages, 10 co-sponsors including Congressman Welch from HR 561, and introduced on July 7, 2011 by Congressman Jeff Miller, Republican of Florida.

Described: “To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on expensing certain depreciable assets for certain businesses that hire veterans.”

Now each bill has a different approach, yet all are a means of amending the tax code to achieve more Veteran hiring, assuming an incentive will aid businesses whose profits are down due to an anemic economy.

Together these bills show that the origins of the idea of giving a tax break to businesses for hiring Veterans doesn't originate in the AJA but from our representatives, and likely by Veteran Citizen constituents who have contacted these representatives.

This takes to task the idea of “no special interest groups,” doesn't it.

Here we are on Veterans' Day, the “Politibureaucratocracy” in DC making sure to spit on this day by adding some Veteran amendment to a bill about government contractors who, like any public employee union member, do work for the government, for us, and, in not having a union pension due to being business owners, merely are going to be able to keep more of the money they actually earned once the act passes.

What I am saying is that this bill, the AJA provision, and all of the rest above, define America's finest as a bookkeeping entry, a mere tax concern, either in the Statute books or the employers’ financial books, these bills merchandise the finest America has to offer, People who put their lives on the line for every single one of us, and especially those in Washington whose polity often offends our enemies who don't believe in Freedom. Thus, these absolute specimens of the highest patriotic Honor, and whose commitment to duty is above reproach are, by politics alone, on the verge of being a privileged class of chattel property as a subject regulatory authority for political purposes and ambitions, mistreated by Washington DC once more, and especially their Commander-In-Chief, both by himself and his party – It is his Jobs Act after all, right?

Strong charge? Sure. Reality of our heroes? Absolutely! Justification? Here ya go:

H.R. 2433: Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011, 29 pages, 31 co-sponsors, and introduced on July 7, 2011 by Congressman Jeff Miller, Republican of Florida.

Described: “To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the laws relating to the employment and training of veterans, and for other purposes.” -- emphasis mine.

“Employment and training of veterans,” my God a bill that isn't focusing on taxes, expenses, and the bookkeeping entries of politics, nor the optics of Veterans' Day, but the Veterans themselves, as people who are looking for work, and have been affected by being in the service of our government, and to which We all owe an unpayable debt of gratitude, that has not a single Democrat, including Peter Welch, co-sponsoring it.

Imagine that, the touchy-feely Democrats, the party of the Special Interest Group, from Civil Rights (see American Jobs Act: “The Illegal Alien & Unemployed Civil Rights Act”); to Wall Street, being the party that forced the Bank Bailouts upon the people, ala Harry Reid (see The Bailout: An Extra Constitutional Shnooker); and the party whose backers Democrats have, in patronage, elevated financially over time, that their foreign investments can bring down the U.S. Economy (see Michael W. Masters Senate testimony May 20, 2008) and now support the national Occupy movements, chanting in the streets to legally admit actions compliant to First Amendment limits when they confront government, while physically and actually carrying on an illegal act (see Nuisance Laws & Lack Of Permit Enforcement Define OWS and note “Occupation” is a military term as OWS is using it), and yet this party, cannot show bipartisan support for a bill that helps the genuine, person, the American Citizen, who, together with their family, sacrificed more than any budget cut this Congress can come up with? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Veterans' Day IS a day to show support for our Veterans, not the employers who hire them, not the legislative process these Veterans helped protect, nor the people in Government and office of President whom they help keep safe, along with the entire population of the United States of America, legal and illegal, irrespective of color, race, religion, gender, sexual preference, Native American Land, poverty, wealth, success, failure, employed or unemployed, or any other bias that the left would easily divide this nation by for political gain, and all ignored and irrelevant to the Soldier fighting for his country!

The best support for Veterans that I could imagine right now, that the “Politibureaucratocracy” in DC could do, is to be as unbiased in their, alleged “civil” acts and deeds as magistrate legislators, instead of merely claiming to be members of a government that is operating according to Our Written Constitution, to act according to their Oath Of Office, almost identical to the very oath our Soldiers take regarding Our Written Constitution, and affect the same unbiased acceptance of their voluntary servitude to the American People, and especially our Veteran Citizens as people.

In fact, I wish today that every Democrat and Republican in the House, who can do so in good conscience, co-sponsor HR 2433, and urge Harry Reid to hold an immediate floor vote, and let's get this bill passed on Veterans' Day for our Veterans!

Our Veterans and soldiers in the field right now have shown courage under fire from all sides, including your political wrangling. It is time the members of government in Washington, D.C. showed a complimentary courage. Never forget these Soldiers went in without any guarantee what the result would be, the debt owed is due to no one being able to know the exact price they'd pay going in, and following orders. Their Honor is in what they gave for free, what they lost at personal cost. What, oh great DC “Politibureaucratocracy,” are you willing to give for free to they who did so for you already? What are you willing to lose, and forego the personal cost of, for those whose past actions have secured the continuance of this nation every single day?

Thank you for reading,

Toddy Littman