Democrat leaders deny death benefits to grieving families?

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There are new casualties of this battle: the families of Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice.


Four Americans killed in combat in Afghanistan this weekend are on their way home for the last time.


Normally they would receive a $100,000 death benefit and the government would cover the cost of flying to Dover Air Force base in Delaware where flag-draped caskets come home.


Not now.


Before the shutdown, Congress passed a bill authorizing the government to keep paying and supporting the troops.


But the language, according to the Pentagon's interpretation, did not permit payment of the death benefit.


Rep. Hunter, R-Calif., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel blaming the Pentagon for "a careless legal interpretation" that resulted in "mistakenly denying payments."


Speaker Boehner said Congress had passed and Obama signed legislation last week permitting the payments, adding it was "disgraceful" for the administration to interpret the measure otherwise.


Private charities have stepped forward to cover the families' expenses, and Congress is scrambling to reinstate the death benefit.


"Shouldn't we as a body, Republican, Democrat, no matter who we are, shouldn't we be embarrassed about this? Shouldn't we be ashamed?" asked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the No. 3 House Republican, said: “Mr. President, give a call. We’re ready to answer.”






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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57606608/shutdown-hurts-benefits-for-heroes-grieving-families/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/us/politics/obama-calls-boehner-as-gop-meeting-yields-no-offers.html?_r=0

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20131008/us--budget-battle/?utm_hp_ref=media&ir=media
 
tekkychick said:
By the way, I have no idea what BM actually wrote; I'm going by the title of the post.
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Liar.

You read every word I post.

You're as dirty as the Democrat Party.

Explain why Obamas' Pentagon refused to pay death benefits...

They are holding the corpses of US troops hostage to obtain a "win" for Obamacare, which a majority of Americans do not want.
 
tekkychick said:
By the way, I have no idea what BM actually wrote; I'm going by the title of the post.
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it's about the "death gratuity" the Pentagon is supposed to pay ( in 24-48 hours) for all fallen US personel.

From what I understand there is Discression ( as in discression is the better part of valor ; valor being the US Army deaths)


as to the payments, but there is some kind of hang up. Anyways....GET THE FREAK OUT OF AFGANISTAN......this was about the bombing , and US Marine deaths

here: http://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...-in-Afghanistan-Oct-invasion-anniversary-10-7
 
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Senate elders denounce suspension of death benefit for families of fallen

The Senate sat in almost total silence Tuesday as two of its most respected members denounced the suspension of a benefit that helps families of fallen soldiers meet their flag-draped coffins — an unexpected side effect of the government shutdown.

The benefit, known as the death gratuity, wires $100,000 to families to help them cover funeral costs and travel to receive the bodies of their loved ones. It was left unpaid to the families of five American service members killed in Afghanistan over the weekend.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. and a veteran himself, told his colleagues that they should be ashamed


Waving a copy of a news story about the suspension, he said: “I’m ashamed! I’m embarrassed. All of us should be.”

Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, called a rare live quorum in the Senate and joined McCain in the denunciation.

In a live quorum, the leader instructs the sergeant-at-arms to get the whole Senate to show up on the floor.....

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...-of-death-benefit-for-families-of-fallen?lite

WTF. 106 DEAD so FAR this YEAR in that HELLHOLE for NOTHING, and McCain is "ashamed" of death gratuity - everybody get on the Senate Floor


Everybody GRANDSTAND, and then go back to their well guarded. gridlocked pleasures. Sickening..
 
Before the shutdown, Congress passed a bill authorizing the government to keep paying and supporting the troops.


But the language, according to the Pentagon's interpretation, did not permit payment of the death benefit.


Rep. Hunter, R-Calif., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel blaming the Pentagon for "a careless legal interpretation" that resulted in "mistakenly denying payments."


Speaker Boehner said Congress had passed and Obama signed legislation last week permitting the payments, adding it was "disgraceful" for the administration to interpret the measure otherwise.



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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57606608/shutdown-hurts-benefits-for-heroes-grieving-families/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/u...ner-as-gop-meeting-yields-no-offers.html?_r=0

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20131008/us--budget-battle/?utm_hp_ref=media&ir=media
 
Agreed, showboating over dead soldiers ...shameful

a) get out of Afghanistan

b) fund the govt

(not necessarily in that order)
 
tekkychick said:
Agreed, showboating over dead soldiers ...shameful

a) get out of Afghanistan

b) fund the govt

(not necessarily in that order)
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we're not getting out; we're "transitioning" out, a slow march to oblivion, until the Afgan National Army, collapses -
or the corrupted gov't of Karzai's sucessor ( bunch of warlords running to suceed him) collapses.


Ain't no way this thing is going to hold up under it's own weight.

EDIT: Karzai was complaining about violations of "sovereignity" the other day ( re : drone strikes based into Waziristan)

Yet they want the ISAF - International Security Assistance Force - to guarantee to intervene in case of militants ( or something, it gets all so tedious)
 
The Pentagon’s decision to freeze death benefits for the families of fallen soldiers is “boneheaded” and an “in your face, middle finger to the military families,” Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. said Tuesday.


Hunter, a Marine combat veteran who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, told Megyn Kelly the move by the Department of Defense “dishonors our fallen brothers and sisters. It breaks the trust…


“It needs to get fixed tonight,” he stressed. “Chuck Hagel should say ‘it’s fixed, we’re going to pay them.’”


The money could be wire transferred in the morning to the families, Hunter said.



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/08/freezing-death-benefits-boneheaded-and-breaks-trust-rep-says/
 
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