Posted on 04/07/2011 3:12:51 PM PDT by Nachum
Rather than accept a few billion in budget cuts (read rounding error), President Obama has signaled his willingness to shut down the federal government. (Yah!) For those keeping score at home, any government shutdown that happens is on Obama’s plate. He is the President. All on him.
The worst part of this whole debate is the Obama Administration’s decision to hold military pay hostage to the budget debate. For the last few decades, government shutdowns have been guided by an OMB directive issued during the Reagan Administration. Under this directive, military personnel would continue to receive the paychecks while politicians argued about the budget. The Clinton Administration, during the last government shutdown, kept the paychecks flowing.
But, not Obama.
The Obama Administration has overturned the old OMB directive and has decided to suspend military paychecks if there is a government shutdown. No reason to do it…but they have decided to. Reprehensible.
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Zero the Death Eater doesn’t want to cut Planned Nonparenthood off the Federal teat.
If Obama does that to the military in a war, what will he do to the rest of us!?
Well, at least we can stop bombing Libya.
Will he pull the troops out of Afghanistan? Or will the new Rules of Engagement include no pay and no food as well as rubber bullets, and no fair shooting at Muslims?
Tyrant’s rule numbers 1, 2, and 3 is to pay the army.
I really surprised you ask that question.
This character is hell bent on destroying America.
Okay; let his Secret Service, U.S. Marshalls, and Presidential Guard be the first to walk off the job since they are not being paid....let the Messiah bring in the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam brotherhood to guard his sorry ass.....
suspend his pay also all congress critters especially the one from Ca that lives paycheck to paycheck and don’t forget all the IRS employees. lets shut it all down it is bankrupt any how no more socialist insecurity either foods stamp bye bye FBI go find real jobs. EPA in spades real job I hear there are some stall mucking ones available.
Leftists like Obama reflexively despise the US military. And most folks in the military despise leftists and don’t vote for them. So holding back a US soldier’s pay is likely no big deal to him — might even be a bit of “payback” involved with it. Obama’s such a little schmuck.
If they win this, there will never be a chance for budget reductions ever, because the American people will have spoken that cuts are unacceptable.
The Republicans cannot blink, if they do the nation is lost to full-on socialism forever.
He IS the commander in Chief, that's $400,000 right there.
We just watched it about a month ago, and I started the next day, tagging my posts with “VALKYRIE”, until I changed THAT thought to, “WOLVERINES !”
I wonder if the Secret Service gets paid, and those Air Force personnel for Air Farce One, white house staff, etc.
Samuel Adams: “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
Nah, he’s not going to stop paying the military... He’s going to declare martial law.
Is this a way to bring on a military coup or what?
Military paydays are the 15th and at the end of the month.
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