Obama found $ for chefs and park guards; 0 for fallen troops' families

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He and Chuck Hagel found a way to send 400,000 civilian employees back to work with a dubious legal "interpretation".

But these Democrats can't find a way to pay the families of the fallen, despite the fact that Congress authorized the funding?


When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visits Dover Air Force Base Wednesday, he won't just be honoring troops killed in Afghanistan. His presence will also send a message about the government shutdown.

Hagel will attend a ceremony for the return of soldiers' remains -- at a time the families of those service members are not receiving the standard benefits typically given to them.

Those benefits, which include a $100,000 payment, are being withheld.

It's the "worst nightmare" for military families, says Amy Neiberger-Miller of TAPS, a support network for families of the fallen.


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/politics/shutdown-showdown/
 
Big money said:
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He and Chuck Hagel found a way to send 400,000 civilian employees back to work with a dubious legal "interpretation".

But these Democrats can't find a way to pay the families of the fallen, despite the fact that Congress authorized the funding?


When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visits Dover Air Force Base Wednesday, he won't just be honoring troops killed in Afghanistan. His presence will also send a message about the government shutdown.

Hagel will attend a ceremony for the return of soldiers' remains -- at a time the families of those service members are not receiving the standard benefits typically given to them.

Due to the partial federal government shutdown, those benefits, which include a $100,000 payment, are being withheld.

It's the "worst nightmare" for military families, says Amy Neiberger-Miller of TAPS, a support network for families of the fallen.


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/politics/shutdown-showdown/
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Should Boner allow a clean CR to be voted on?
 
why do you right wing assholes pretend people can pick and choose what to fund?


because your lying assholes
 
Why does the Obama administration hold survivor benefits hostage?




Many members of Congress were surprised by reports that families of fallen soldiers had not been receiving the death gratuity benefit considering they had passed legislation, which President Obama signed into law the night before the shutdown began, that authorized "pay and allowances" to be distributed to troops and their families during the shutdown.


On Friday, Oct. 4, Rep Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the Chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Armed Service Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel requesting an explanation for why the Death Gratuity was not being paid.


"It has come to my attention that the Department of Defense is not currently paying several critical allowances earned by members of the Armed Forces that have made the ultimate sacrifice," Wilson wrote in his letter. "These include, the Death Gratuity, which is payable to a designated beneficiary."


"We cannot in good conscience deny these benefits to the survivors of deceased members," Wilson writes in the letter. "I request that you provide me a summary of which of the pays and allowances on (a list attached to the letter) that will not be paid and the rationale for non-payment."




http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/09/20884283-house-to-pass-bill-restoring-benefits-to-fallen-soldiers-families?lite
 
Big money said:
He and Chuck Hagel found a way to send 400,000 civilian employees back to work with a dubious legal "interpretation".

But these Democrats can't find a way to pay the families of the fallen, despite the fact that Congress authorized the funding?


When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visits Dover Air Force Base Wednesday, he won't just be honoring troops killed in Afghanistan. His presence will also send a message about the government shutdown.

Hagel will attend a ceremony for the return of soldiers' remains -- at a time the families of those service members are not receiving the standard benefits typically given to them.

Those benefits, which include a $100,000 payment, are being withheld.

It's the "worst nightmare" for military families, says Amy Neiberger-Miller of TAPS, a support network for families of the fallen.


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/politics/shutdown-showdown/
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Well, we know where this administrations priorities are now; military families can just go pound sand. Is that Obama on the phone chatting it up with Iranian dictators?
 
evince said:
why do you right wing assholes pretend people can pick and choose what to fund?


because your lying assholes
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Why do dimwitted hyper partisan asshats like you think they can't?

Why do dimwitted hyper partisan asshats never hold this petulant child like buffoon of a President accountable for his brain dead partisan antics?

Who would want to work with a juvenile President who denigrates his political opponents as terrorists and then like a sociopath invite them to tea and crumpets so that he can spit in their faces?

How does someone like you manage to function without a brain?

This ass clown of a President has driven a massive grand canyon sized wedge between the American sheeple with his buffoonish antics and you lefttards bought his false rhetoric of bringing the country together. He makes Bush look like the great uniter.

Dumbasses.
 
PROVE all this is DECIDED by Obama


You know with facts not your rambling bullshit diatribe
 
This embarrassing buffoon in the White House wouldn't comprehend what leadership is if it walked up and slapped him on his thick narcicistic community organizing head.

But lefttards refused to acknowledge his inability to do anything beyond campaigning and the media practicing malfeasance removing any hint of objectivity dragging his sorry ass across the finish line in two elections.

Bunch of dumbasses.
 
evince said:
bullshit hate filled diatribe and no facts?

gee Im soso surprised.


Not
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You whining about hate filled diatribe is the epitome of irony and stupidity.

You truly give stupid a bad name. But narcicistic dimwits like Obama need brain dead sheeple like you to get elected.

You're the poster child of the type of voter our founders feared the most; uneducated brain dead dullards voting for corrupt politicians who use the Constitution to wipe their asses with and promise the duped sheeple other people's money to stay elected.

Now please cease your desperate bid to continually prove why you are the forums pet asshat; you're embarrassing yourself.
But you're a dimwit; even the obvious is well beyond your comprehension level.
 
Let me break it down for you, Desh:


Obama is the C in C.


Hagel reports to him.


Obama had no problem with Hagel circumventing the shutdown when 400,000 civilian employees returned to work Monday, did he?


Hagel claimed the civilian workers were "essential" to "morale", didn't he?


But paying (Congressionally-authorized and duly signed into law) death benefits to the families of Americans killed in combat doesn't seem to be "essential" to Democrat "morale", does it?
 
Big money said:
Let me break it down for you, Desh:


Obama is the C in C.


Hagel reports to him.


Obama had no problem with Hagel circumventing the shutdown when 400,000 civilian employees returned to work Monday, did he?


Hagel claimed the civilian workers were "essential" to "morale", didn't he?


But paying (Congressionally-authorized and duly signed into law) death benefits to the families of Americans killed in combat doesn't seem to be "essential" to Democrat "morale", does it?
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You silly; you still think brain dead hyper partisan asshats like Desh care about facts. ;)
 
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