Laughable

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Originally posted by mocitytx:
Laughable

Do you have a story or Mil.com link to go with your comment?

I think this might be it.

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,167334,00.html?wh=wh

How about OUTRAGEOUS.

Congress (Yes this means the Democrats not Bush, for once) needs to get off their collective A$$e$ and secure the troops pay.

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Originally posted by mocitytx:
Laughable

Brings to memory the previous Democrat threats/attempts to impede and force the "end" of the GWoT by denial of funding. Equally outrageous (laughable doesn't even describe...) is the possibilty that ONLY the pay to the troops is being held up and nothing else.

We'll see how dire this is allowed to become...

Why on earth should they be short in the pay accounts, for pity's sake? All military pay [not just the Army's] got covered in the regular Defense Appropriations Bill, with the possible exception of activated Guard and Reserve troops, and hazardous duty pay ... they shouldn't be running that short anywhere close to so soon.

This is ridicules. Hey I understand we have a line of credit with the Chinese.

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Originally posted by Ol_Doc:
This is ridicules. Hey I understand we have a line of credit with the Chinese.

What does this quote from the article mean?

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Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Tuesday that if Congress does not pass the $1.8 billion Global War on Terror (GWOT) supplemental, the U.S. Army will be unable to pay troops in mid-June and may be forced to make a reprogramming request that would borrow from Navy and Air Force payroll funds.

It means that the administration has been been barrowing funds from the normal military appropriations without Congressional feedback or approval. You know, lying, violating the Constitution...

And of course blaming the opposition! How creative!

Dave

it this a joke.....too much incentives to stay in and NOT enough guts to do the right thing.......

why not just tell the bad guys that we're out of bullets...maybe we can borrow some bullets from another country...Let's start pumping that Iraqi oil and putting it in our tanks, sell enough to pay our troops all a bonus...and quit *****-footing around. The GWOT is a threat to all freedom loving people..and I think OPEC is just as threatening as the Terrorist...maybe more so...putting the world in economic turmoil. Democrats wake up....what are you thinking.??

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Originally posted by papakeck328:
why not just tell the bad guys that we're out of bullets...maybe we can borrow some bullets from another country...Let's start pumping that Iraqi oil and putting it in our tanks, sell enough to pay our troops all a bonus...and quit *****-footing around. The GWOT is a threat to all freedom loving people..and I think OPEC is just as threatening as the Terrorist...maybe more so...putting the world in economic turmoil. Democrats wake up....what are you thinking.??

Democrats wake up??? Who has been supporting the oil producers worldwide. Who's family does business with the Saudis? And, in fact, the Bin Laden family?

it is too bad, if you vol. for four years in the army at the end of four years your contract is up but no you can get out, cause we dont have enought soldiers, so you have to stay in...wait a minute, my contract only calls for four years..ha...now you might not have the money to pay me in june...you might have to go to the sister services to borrow the money...ok what is wrong with this picture....

Hey, admit it...it sucks all the way around and is the result of abysmal planning!

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Originally posted by JimSorber:
Hey, admit it...it sucks all the way around and is the result of abysmal planning!

Perhaps, abysmal "deliberate" planning would be a more appropriate term. Military pay is a part of the normal military appropriations. The administration is now putting the opposition party on the spot, "either vote for our supplemental appropriation, or we will announce that you're against paying our men and woman in the military."

Neat!

Dave

Maybe we should try to find those billions we lost.

This is great! My EAOS in less than a year... and if the Army borrowing money from the Navy's payroll funds mean that my pay is somehow affected by this... this could mean that people from ALL services could be walking!

Man, I tell you what - with gas prices, now this, among other things - has this country ever been in worse shape?

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Originally posted by Yggdrasil:
This is great! My EAOS in less than a year... and if the Army borrowing money from the Navy's payroll funds mean that my pay is somehow affected by this... this could mean that people from ALL services could be walking!

Man, I tell you what - with gas prices, now this, among other things - has this country ever been in worse shape?

Unfortunately, yes.

Doesn't surprise me in the least that the Army is out of money. what does surprise me is they may try to borrow from the Air Force, historically the most fiscally irresponsible of all the armed forces. The Army is the next most irresponsible and has been since WWII

A cure called impeachment would get it setteled real FAST!!

All patroll funds are on deposit with the Treasury Dept.
Gates is log-rolling the issue. As per the Bush script blame anyone for anything, but at all costs absolve the administration. When the outcome is undesireable from the Bush-babies' perspective, invent an artificial catastrophy.
If Congress is as smart as they should be (to have gotten elected in the first place), they will call the bluff and not pass the supplemental appropriation. No funds for Iraq. No funds for "GWOT", another figment of their imagination. Terrorism is criminal behavior; treat it as such. They are criminals; don't elevate their status above common criminal.
This is Bush business as usual and needs to be met as a bluff and an outright lie.