Posted on 09/13/2022 2:37:09 PM PDT by george76
Nobody joins the US military to get rich. Military members and their families make incredible sacrifices on a daily basis, and none expect to earn their fortunes in the service. But no one joins the military to be on welfare or food stamps either. Yet that’s happening today in the US military under Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
An official US Army web site recently featured a posting advising soldiers to apply for food stamps.
This is unfortunately not unprecedented. During the Jimmy Carter administration in the late 1970s, a period widely acknowledged as one of the lowest points for the armed services, many service members ended up on food stamps. But it remains a national disgrace.
The Biden administration’s budget request for 2022 was $6 trillion. Last year, the administration’s “American Rescue Plan” was a supplemental budget outlay of $1.9 trillion—on top of regular government spending. In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration sent over $50 billion of aid to Kiev. We left behind $80 billion in military equipment when we abandoned the fight in Afghanistan.
Now Biden proposes transferring the student loan debt of thousands of college graduates to taxpaying citizens to the tune of somewhere around $400 billion. That means the average taxpayer will foot an additional $2500 for that giveaway.
The government is throwing around money like a drunken sailor while actual sailors, soldiers, airmen and Marines don’t have enough money to feed their families. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was no where to be found, while this money was being spent. He certainly hasn’t publicly fought for the troops under his command.
Austin has spent a lot of time and effort imposing COVID vaccine mandates and woke indoctrination training on the force, leading to a crisis in recruitment efforts. Were those projects so time consuming that he just forgot to look out for the welfare of the troops?
A proper Secretary Defense would have marched into his boss’s office and told Biden that it is morally repugnant to allow soldiers to be reduced to food stamps and asked him to help people in uniform as much as he has decided to help college graduates who took out loans to go to college.
Did it not occur to Austin that somewhere in all the trillions of dollars there might be maybe a billion or two to make sure our men and women in uniform can feed themselves and their families?
Should Congress change hands after the mid-terms, Austin should be held to account for his flawed priorities and the utter lack of leadership now reaping disastrous effects upon the all-volunteer force.
Waffle House?
Updating his CRT training?
‘Satisfying’ his ‘husband’.
Lord Austin doesn’t care.
This takes time to do carefully.
Where the Hell are his latex gloves?
Ah, yes. Steve Austin's loser younger brother.
He was last seen pulling chicken scraps out of the dumpster
behind the Church's place in Dickinson, Texas.
Observers stated that he was very awkward climbing in and
out of the dumpster and exhibited no Bionic abilities.
Defense Sec. Austin is in way over his head and just coasting, ready to do or say whatever Gen. Milley tells him to do or say.
There’s that Mystic Knights of the Sea getup again.
AP photos aren’t allow on FR...FYI
No, that means every single man, woman, and child will pay that.
The average wage earner will pay $6000 each. (assuming 1/3 of the country works)
He may have used them up last night.
have PT standards been relaxed?
Joke knows the military as a whole is not a big block of his supporters. It’s all about votes and staying in power, as usual.
ASSOCIATED PRESS AUG. 15, 2022 12:13 PM PT
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said Monday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, is experiencing mild symptoms and will quarantine at home. It’s the second time Austin has gotten COVID-19.
In a statement, Austin, 69, said he is fully vaccinated and has received two boosters. He said he’ll quarantine for the next five days in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and “will retain all authorities and plan to maintain my normal work schedule virtually from home.”
Austin said his last in-person contact with President Biden was on July 29. In January, Austin also contracted COVID after receiving a booster in October. “Now, as in January, my doctor told me that my fully vaccinated status, including two booster shots, is why my symptoms are less severe than would otherwise be the case,” Austin said. “I will continue to consult closely with my doctor in the coming days.”
;-)
Probably in a corner somewhere picking his nose
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