Soldiers Already Report Getting HALF PAY - Fight Back!
U.S. Soldiers Report Paychecks Cut In HALF After KILLING Osama bin Laden -- Tell Congress to Say NO to Obama's Political Games:https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_militarypay/?a=6202
ALERT: While all of America was rejoicing over the news that Osama bin Laden had finally been KILLED by U.S. Soldiers...
Barack Obama was already trying to get those soldiers' paychecks CUT IN HALF -- and was threatening to hold their ENTIRE paychecks back, if he didn't "get his way" on his budget-busting plan to put America trillions of dollars deeper in debt!
Obama, of course, is taking the credit for killing bin Laden. And Americans are graciously willing to give him a pass on that, because we're just so dang glad we finally got that S.O.B.
Have you heard of what's called the "Military LES"? Officially called the "
Leave and Earnings Statement," it's a document given on a monthly basis to members of the
U.S. military which lists their
pay and leave status each month. In other words, it's basically like a "
projected pay stub" that lets soldiers know how much their
take-home pay will be at the end of the month.
Well, take a look at just a
few of the
THOUSANDS of recent "
Twitter"
status updates from soldiers and military family members, talking about the LES:
- "They already cut military pay in half for the next paycheck according to the LES..."
- "military LES already showing pay stopped."
- "Military LES already reflects gov't shutdown. Our LES shows pay only through the 8th. We will only get 1 weeks pay instead of 2."
- "EXCEPT that the military was paid in 1995. Now it is too late...husband in Iraq just sent LES showing 1/2 a paycheck."
- "If your active military look at your LES and your half paycheck already"
- "yes the LES which is the military pay stub has already been posted online and its is for less than what we would get for the period."
- "To all my military tweeps, make sure you look at your LES. Midmonth pay is already posted and its 1/2 paycheck."
- "Just pulled up my husband's LES on MyPay and it's already stating he will only get half on the 15th. UGH."
- "The military sent out our "LES" only half pay." BOO to Congress! Get your act together and support our troops & their families!"
- "I guess the Army is REALLY an all volunteer force. LES's already showing shut down effect."
Do you get it? This isn't just something that
MIGHT happen -- it's something that Obama is
ALREADY DOING TO THEM!
THIS IS INSANITY. Our brave military go over there and
get the job done... and Barack Obama wants to USE them in his
political games to try to INCREASE the largest deficit this country's ever seen!
Once again, Obama, Reid, and
Boehner are going head-to-head to work out a "deal" to
raise the already outrageous U.S. debt ceiling, to avoid a government "shutdown." And everyone knows that the Democrats are LOSING that fight in the polls.
The American people want REAL budget cuts, and we're willing to see large chunks of the federal government
shut down if that's what it takes.
BUT... did you know that part of the Democrats' "deal" is to
HOLD MILITARY PAYCHECKS during any kind of "shutdown" that might happen?
YOU READ THAT RIGHT: Obama and his minions in Congress are saying that the military
won't get paid, and are using our men and women in uniform...
AS POLITICAL PAWNS IN THEIR BUDGET GAME!
These kinds of
Saul Alinsky political games MUST BE STOPPED NOW. Our brave men and women in uniform ARE NOT "NON-ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL" -- and we need to MAKE SURE that they get the pay they deserve!
The conservative website
BigGovernment.com dropped this unbelievable bombshell, discussing Obama's plans to
hold back military pay, just before Congress recessed:
During the 1995 shutdown, the Clinton Administration followed the OMB guidance issued during the Reagan Administration. The Obama Administration, it seems, is tacking a different direction.
In other words, when there were temporary
government shutdowns during both
Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's presidency,
soldiers were treated as
essential. Barack Obama has decided that they're
NOT.
You see, if the government were to shutdown, a Directive issued in the 1980s by the
Office of Management and Budget lists what parts of government will keep running -- what they call
"essential personnel" -- and what parts will close down -- which are staffed by "non-essential personnel." So what did the
White House OMB say were included among "essential personnel"? Just what you'd expect: all of the important functions of government, like national security, the military, air traffic control, border security,
Social Security payments, and so forth. All of those will keep running, even if the government "shuts down."
And what about those functions that DO shut down -- the ones they call "non-essential personnel"? Well, it looks to ME like we've just found a way to start
CUTTING THE TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET -- just CUT A BUNCH OF THOSE JOBS. Why do we need these hundreds of thousands of "non-essential personnel" for an extended period of time, and we don't have people "dying in the streets" as a result... why exactly do we need those employees at all?
But instead of looking at
eliminating non-essential federal government jobs, Barack Obama has decided instead to
hold the paychecks of MILITARY PERSONNEL until a budget "compromise" that HE likes is worked out! The magazine
Government Executive, the number one magazine read by federal managers,
reports:
Military personnel and exempt Defense Department civilian employees are required to continue working without pay during a government shutdown, according to guidance from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
In a memo prepared earlier this month, Defense officials noted that service members and some civilian workers, including those involved in national security and the protection of life and property, still must report for duty but will not be paid until Congress appropriates funds to reimburse them for that period of service. All other employees will be furloughed, the memo stated.
YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT: our soldiers will be required to keep working if the government shuts down; but THIS time, says Obama and the Democrats,
THEY WILL NOT GET PAID during that shutdown!
THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS! While SPEND-SPEND-SPEND politicians in
Washington play political games over the
budget crisis, America's men and women in uniform -- AND THEIR FAMILIES -- are the ones that are going to suffer!
WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN!
What
Barack Obama and the Democrats, who want to play POLITICAL GAMES with our troops, don't seem to realize is, there are a LOT of young soldiers with families who struggle to make ends meet NOW just with their uninterrupted pay!
How will military men and women, most of whom are already living paycheck-to-paycheck, be able to feed their families, pay their bills &
just live in general? How can a soldier fighting for our freedom on the front lines in Iraq or
Afghanistan (or any of the other countries that the politicians are sending our brave troops to) focus on performing all of his critical life and death missions -- like
killing Osama bin Laden! -- if he's worried about his wife and children being left hungry or homeless?
Will Congress and the President ALSO
suspend their OWN pay? Yeah,
RIGHT -- what do YOU think?
Don't forget, the whole reason we're looking at a government shutdown is because the
Democrat-controlled Congress -- for the first time in 30 years --
failed to pass a budget. But you won't hear that from the liberals, of course -- they're too busy saying that the Republicans who are trying to save our country from going down in bankruptcy, are engaging in "the functional equivalent of
bombing innocent civilians," or Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
saying they'll bring "catastrophic consequences" that will "precipitate a crisis," or
Nancy Pelosi's
claim that they've declared a "war on women," or even the
REVEREND Jesse Jackson comparing the budget battle to the
American Civil War!
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
BUT we do NOT have to stand silent -- we ARE NOT powerless to do anything about this... because WE THE PEOPLE have a loud voice that we can use to speak up demanding it!
Thankfully, patriotic conservatives in both houses of Congress have introduced a bill called the
"Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011" (
H.R. 1297 &
S. 724). The bill has 186 co-sponsors in the House, and 80 co-sponsors in the Senate. It would authorize the Secretary of Defense to continue to provide pay and allowances
without interruption to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps who perform service during any funding gap. Without action on the measure such funds could be delayed or withheld.
We cannot let that happen. That's why we've set up our website to enable you to send "Blast Faxes" to EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of BOTH the U.S. House AND the U.S. Senate
AT ONCE, demanding that they say
NO to Obama's plan to use our troops in his
partisan political games!
For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send
Blast Faxes to Representatives, Senators, Democrats, Republicans -- EVERYONE in the U.S. Congress, DEMANDING that they say
NO to Obama's plan to hold military pay HOSTAGE for
crass political ploys!
The shutdown could happen at
ANY TIME after mid-May -- we need to take action NOW,
before our troops become
political pawns!
Don't let Obama and his minions in Congress get away with using our troops for political gain. Please, take action right away to tell Congress to
STOP this outrage,
BEFORE it happens! Thank you!
Sincerely,
William Greene, President
RightMarch.com
P.S. All of the most reliable
latest polls show that a VAST majority of Americans OPPOSE raising the debt ceiling yet again. We want Congress to finally
START CUTTING SPENDING.
