Was funding military pay an act of respect for active duty members or an act of

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   flacoinohioposted 11 years ago

   Was funding military pay an act of respect for active duty members or an act of self preservation?
   
   Senator Mike Allen from Utah claims the bill to passed to protect active duty military pay was done out of respect for the soldiers serving this country.  It appears that this bill was passed to avoid outrage from the American people rather than protecting the financial well bring of our soldiers.

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   The Frog Princeposted 11 years ago

   You're talking about Senator Mike Lee.  Our service members should be the first ones paid - active and retired.

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      Ericdierkerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That was just a totally weird provision. Congressional staff got paid but not military. Glad they straightened out regardless --- but it was done so efficiently it must have been for votes.

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      flacoinohioposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I typed Mike Lee, I used an iPad when typing this question, it keeps auto correcting to Allen.  The same goes for well being.   I apologize for the typing errors.
      Flacoinohio

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   Borsiaposted 11 years ago

   It would be a very bad idea to stop funding military pay on many levels so I'm happy that they didn't do it.
   But, and there is always a but, even better is to bring home ALL of our military and close every base that isn't on US soil. The founding fathers provided for a military to protect US soil from outside attack not to police the world and spend ourselves into the grave. The US military should be cut by 2/3 and a bigger National Guard created. The problem with having a huge military machine is that some fool will want to use it.
   We don't need 12 Aircraft carrier battle groups we need maybe 4, 2 on each coast confined to our own territorial waters.
   We need to stop meddling in the business of other countries and let them settle their own affairs. Get out of NATO and the UN as well as the WMF and boot the Federal Reserve, why do we have a private corporation controlling our financial world? One that has NEVER been audited or even allowed our government to see their books.
   In 1990 it was mandated that there must be an annual complete audit of the Defense Dept's entire budget; there still has yet to be one. Those honest enough to say it admit that Congress, or any branch for that matter, doesn't have a clue how our money is being spent or even how much.
   Some of us are old enough to remember the USSR (the other world superpower) and a few remember that in 1979 their whole house of cards collapsed because of financial misconduct,,, it CAN happen here and it WILL happen here of we don't stop spending money we don't have.
   As for Obama care; Obama said in 2008 while running for election that the whole thing would be done with open doors and broadcast on PBS. It was ALL done behind locked doors in complete secret and is so filled with loopholes and BS that it never should have been allowed to pass. There is so much hidden within it that it is toxic even if it delivers what is claimed.

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   alancaster149posted 11 years ago

   If it's politically motivated it has to do with self-preservation (at least someone's going to vote for me next election)!
   Not matter how rosy you paint your picture, there's a motive for every politician's act of giving away cash. It's not a donation, it's an investment.
   (At least your senators aren't sashaying through Arlington cemetery looking for votes - not yet anyway).

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