Legislators Crack Down on Stolen Valor Businesses
Military.com reports that a new defense policy bill seeks to make it more difficult to falsely claim a business is veteran-owned when it isn’t.
Crackdown on Stolen Valor by Businesses Included in Defense Bill Set to Become Law
Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel | December 12, 2023The sweeping defense policy bill poised to pass Congress this week seeks to crack down on stolen valor among businesses by making it harder for some of them to win federal contracts intended for veterans.
The compromise National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, includes an amendment that would stipulate that small businesses that self-certify as being service disabled and veteran owned could not count toward the government’s target for how much contracting goes to such businesses.
The goal is to disincentivize stolen valor by motivating federal officials to award contracts to businesses that are formally certified as being veteran owned.
“For too long, loopholes have allowed imposters to self-certify as service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses and take advantage of government benefits set aside for our nation’s heroes,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, an Army National Guard veteran who sponsored the amendment, said in a statement to Military.com. “There is no room for error when it comes to our men and women who served, and service-disabled veterans should know that our grateful nation is doing everything in its power to support their success.”
Then…
“Self-certification defeats the purpose of guaranteeing that service-disabled certified and veteran-certified firms are fairly represented in federal contracting as per the law,” Ronald Washington, an executive committee member of a veterans entrepreneurship group called VET-Force, said in a statement shared by Ernst’s office supporting her amendment.
The big take-away here is that the honor system doesn’t seem to be working. Ya think?
Category: Stolen Valor, Stolen Valor Act
I have investigated my actions and found no wrongdoing.
Look no further than The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress and All-Points Logistics.
Dildo is a veteran, he is just isn’t the veteran he claimed he was. He went full trident and seal team 4 and he was never all that.
My opinion, being what it is. Thinks if you claim stolen valor then you shouldn’t get a government contract.
I thought that was Milley in the cartoon, then I realized that he isn’t worried about adding color contrast to his Blue friends, rather preferring to understand White Rage displayed by prominent Red people like Larry Elder and David Webb: (27) MUST-SEE: David Webb Joins ‘Fox & Friends’ After CNN Analyst Called Out His ‘White Privilege’ – YouTube
As for self-certifying, there are always going to be those who try to game the system. Certify veteran-owned businesses seeking federal contracts; it shouldn’t be too hard for a legitimate vet to produce a DD-214 and other documentation.
From a government that can’t define a woman.
I definitely identify as a veteran with sausage and meatballs.
Menthol health is a tray-o-tea in dee’s count-tree
Soon…
While they’re at it, they need to sneak in legislation that imposes term limitations.
Yes. Two terms in the House and two in the Senate. That means the longest someone can be in the House is 4 years, and the longest in the Senate would be 12 years.
Some might try to do the 4 in the House and then try to win a Senate seat, but that would still be 16 years total, far from what they are doing these days.
I’ve stated this before. Young pols like AOC can start in the House at age 29, and if elected to the Senate, be seated by age 33. By 45, after two terms in each body, they can seek the presidency or a state or local-level executive position (sometimes better paying than Congress), drawing on their 12 years in Congress.
This would still see them nearly three decades younger than our current DINO by the time they finished a second presidential term.
I’m all in favor of a Constitutional Amendment that imposes Term Linits for Congress. I think that there should be a 12-year limit PERIOD where one is allowed six two-year terms in the House and one is limited to two six-year terms in the Senate and if one decides to go from one Chamber to the other, their total combined time in both Chambers put together cannot exceed twelve years.
Or, hear me out, when you catch someone lying you use that law enforcement thingamabob to nail balls (or labes) to walls.
If the FiB isn’t going to stop being douchebags for no reason, at least have them chasing squeaky toys that’re stealing tax dollars by theft to offset their general ineptitude.
See? Everybody wins.
Oh, and get the “AFT” in on it too, right after they free Larry Vickers for {checks notes} being cooler than all the alphabeta cucks, combined.
Gotta wonder who was the Good Idea Fairy that thought “self certification” was a good idea from the beginning?
Now…let’s see if this bill (a) actually becomes the law; (b) is properly enforced; (c) has swift and sure punishment for the guilty; (d) is made retroactive to remove/punish past violators.
“It was bad enough when the Valor Thief Exposers were coming after our vests. Now they’re coming after our contracts!”
Bureaucrats love self-certification because it means they don’t have to inquire or investigate whether the applicant is legit. If there is one uniform truth, it is that a large percentage of government employees are extremely lazy.
What self-serving DC bureaucrat wouldn’t drool at the thought of creating another level of bureaucracy by creating a verification branch? Add another layer to the self-licking ice cream cone.
They SAY they’re going to do something, but I say “DEEDS, NOT WORDS!”.
This is what else theses dickweeds are up to. The stolen Valor act is all well and good, but other than a few prosecutions from time to time, I don’t think much will come from it. I hope I’m wrong.
HR 6611 is the gift that keeps on giving, though.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/09/the-modified-fisa-702-reauthorization-bill-hr-6611-has-passed-the-house-the-changes-have-expanded-federal-surveillance-of-americans/