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Ahh, to be one of the elite press corp. So many questions for Mr. Gates, selfserving questions, but questions nonetheless.
How will this affect R&R? Will DoD still be able to fly our guys home for that coveted 18 days?
Is this why our COLA goes down every month, even though the dollar keeps dropping and prices at the commissary and PX keep going up?
What about our clinic, that is already stretched, are those some of the DoD workers who will be "laid off"?
What about our DoD schools?
Our preschools?
Our daycare?
Our commissary?
New housing? (section 8's have better housing)
New barracks?(worse then the housing)
What does this mean for us little people?
We already live in an uncertain world how much more uncertain is congress going to make it?
I know that the DoD will try to divert funds as much as they can to give our guys what they need. Congress seems to think that the DoD can just take money from elsewhere, maybe they can, I'm not privey to the inner workings of the budget. Even if congress is correct in their assumption of being able to move around funds, what price is going to have to be paid?
As I said, all this sounds/is self serving but what more can we military families give? How much more would congress like our guys to give ? Almost every member of congress voted to remove saddam from power. We did what you asked and now we're trying to put the country back on track and in case you haven't heard we're doing it. We have done what you asked of us, maybe not as fast as you would of liked or as smoothly as you would of liked, but we did it and are doing it.
We have given and done without. Some have given all. What more would you like from us? We will give it and more to ensure that the task you set for us back in 2003 is done.
Now, seems we have done all that has been asked and given so much of ourselves what will you give us? Robbing Peter to pay Paul? Is that what we get for all we have given?
According to Congress, unfortunately ArmyWife yes. They went on break without passing the funds.
They are fools
It looks to me that this is the first step in the destruction of
our millitary some of these govt.
workers are the ones who maintain
our aircraft and other military
equipment is our troops no longer have the support of our airforce
and armored units they will no longer
be able to protect themselves is this
what the democrats in congress wants
I hope more sane minds prevail in the near future or our country will no longer have the ability to defend itself at home or overseas.
Agreed. Sanity isn't easy to find in this recent batch of politicians though.
It really is time for some Special Forces guys to come into Congress and eliminate the treasonous terrorists there. That may sound pretty harsh, but acting like treasonous terrorists is exactly what some of our representatives and senators are doing to our servicemen. By refusing to grant the means to effectively fight, some Democrats are making the lives of our servicemen a lot less secure, which means loss of life (lives that are worth a lot more than those @#*!#&@%$ representatives that are waging their own war against our servicemen). Again, it may sound harsh, but maybe when Democrats in Congress understand how deplorable their actions are; when Democrats in Congress understand that they're instrumental in killing our own servicemen, maybe they'll wake up and behave like responsible representatives. Until then, it's time to eliminate the treasonous terrorists in that "august body". And if that can't be done, then its time to sweep those Democrats from office in the next election. May they all rot in hell!
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