Posted on 10/22/2016 7:15:19 PM PDT by Chode
Yes. Added.
thx...
What loans? Where are the loan agreements? What were the interest rates?
Liberals are a disgusting lot. That state government is hemorrhaging money (like sex change operations to inmates and free tuition for illegal for example)These bonus overages are a mere drop in the bucket that can be easily overlooked and written off for the good of the patriots who sacrificed so much to go to war. Put it up to a prop vote and see the reaction.
this is a move by the left to dispirit members of the military and try to make them lose faith in the institution
According to this three-year-old story, in addition to Jaffe, three captains pleaded guilty to fraud, paid restitution, and served two to four days in custody and got a year's probation. About 115 guard members, including 80 officers, also engaged in willful misconduct.
The story leads with the example of a married couple, a staff sergeant and a sergeant, who were promised $20,000 in student loan repayments, when they signed up in 2008. Payments have been suspended, and wages garnished.
But unless they were somehow in on the fraud, I believe they should get what they were promised and not have to repay a dime!
pretty much
not the safest of spaces...
If the National Guard members of California were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, then they became members of the U.S. military under the jurisdiction of DOD.
Did California pay the enlistment bonuses, the US, or a combination of both?
Anyway, let them keep the money. They earned it.
I’m the father of an Army Reservist whose unit was activated in October, 2002, and my son and a few others of the 299th Engineers, MRB, became among the first US soldiers into Iraq on 3/20/2002. Now that unit is being sent back to Iraq.
If you pay these people to enlist, damn it, let them keep the money.
Another way California Marxists screw the military.
Ask the illegals to return their welfare payments first.
Then change/amend the law, retroactively to stop screwing our warriors.....Hillary loses 6 Billion and nobody bats an eye and they probably have maybe 10 Million that they "just have to retrieve"....
Obnoxious is what obnoxious does....
Obama handing out $18,000 to illegals
Obama’s List of Most Disrespectful Insults to the Military
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need to spread this far and wide ... and lay it at the feet of hillary / 0bama
make sure they know what they’re getting if they don’t vote Trump
The mistake was the Guard’s. The limitations time is over.
These mistakes should be forgiven the individual soldiers who almost to a man did not know the $ figure when they entered a reenlistment office to reenlist. They went by what they were told.
I would forgive the debts.
Thank God for DAV/Wounded Warrior, etc., but it's obnoxious that the vets need outside charities to be taken care of.
Trump would pay them himself.
If he did that, I think his numbers would surge like never before.
What would the total tab for this “mistake” amount to? A few million, at the very worst?
The Pentagon spends how many billions a year? I know there is no actual, known amount on Pentagon spending, but this would amount to a “rounding error” by any reckoning. Doesn’t matter if it’s California or the federal, they both deal with uniformed personnel.
Some brass hat needs to transfer the necessary funds and make this silly issue go away. Let them keep their money, for criminy sake.
100%
Amen
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