Via Big Government by way of Ace, check this out from Federal Times. If this article is right, Obama deserves to catch unholy noise for what he’s about to do to our military personnel.
When the government was shut down in 1995, military personnel continued to report to work and were paid, but the planning guidance sent to the services and defense agencies says a shutdown this time will be different.
“All military personnel will continue in normal duty status regardless of their affiliation with exempt or non-exempt activities,” says the draft planning guidance that was prepared for the services and defense agencies. “Military personnel will serve without pay until such time as Congress makes appropriated funds available to compensate them for this period of service.”
The military would get back pay once the shutdown is finished, but while the shutdown is going on they would be fighting three wars — one of which Brackets led us into himself — without pay. That means that while our troops are engaging the enemy abroad, their families are missing mortgage payments, car payments and everything else here at home. Do we really want our troops so distracted from the task at hand because of stupid partisan games here at home? If the president is intent to use our military personnel and families as pawns like this, it’s a rank disgrace, and the most repugnant act of his presidency (so far).
By the way, that article is dated March 11. So the administration has been planning this gambit for some weeks now. They can’t claim that it’s an oversight or mistake, as they have had time to fix it if they wanted to. It’s their plan to break the Republicans and destroy the Tea Party, using the military as pawns.
“Disgusting” is the nicest word I can think of for this.
Update: It turns out that Reid and Obama are also playing games with the DC taxpayer funded abortion ban. They were fine with it in 2009, now they’re declaring its inclusion in the CR “unfair to the American people.”
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