Military tuition assistance cut
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SAN ANTONIO - The sequester spending cuts are taking their toll and no one is feeling them more than the military.
Active service military members in the Army, Navy and Marines will no longer get assistance to further their educations.
All three have suspended their programs until the nation's fiscal situation clears up.
At Fort Sam Houston, soldiers had until March 8 to apply for tuition assistance. Those who missed the deadline can no longer qualify.
Those currently receiving assistance will not have it renewed at the end of the semester.
Currently, 20 percent of the Army population at Fort Sam Houston receive tuition assistance.
A spokesman for Joint Base San Antonio said more than 24,000 members of the military based at Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston had been eligible for the program.
The Air Force has not made any announcement about its tuition assistance.
Congress gets paid for life yet our Military can't get an education.......Cut pay to those in Congress..... at least cut there benefits that we pay for......This is sic...
SAN ANTONIO - The sequester spending cuts are taking their toll and no one is feeling them more than the military.
Active service military members in the Army, Navy and Marines will no longer get assistance to further their educations.
All three have suspended their programs until the nation's fiscal situation clears up.
At Fort Sam Houston, soldiers had until March 8 to apply for tuition assistance. Those who missed the deadline can no longer qualify.
Those currently receiving assistance will not have it renewed at the end of the semester.
Currently, 20 percent of the Army population at Fort Sam Houston receive tuition assistance.
A spokesman for Joint Base San Antonio said more than 24,000 members of the military based at Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston had been eligible for the program.
The Air Force has not made any announcement about its tuition assistance.
Congress gets paid for life yet our Military can't get an education.......Cut pay to those in Congress..... at least cut there benefits that we pay for......This is sic...
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Hail, Hail!!!
I also heard from a returning vet that they revoked his conceal and carry and do not allow any purchase of guns. Every returning soldier considered a domestic terrorist.
Things are turning very weird lately :fp:
I work with active service as well as veterans... this is a new one on me.
I'll check around.
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Also... To address the original poster... This is part of the thing that Conservative Republicans argue against.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Agency: Veterans Affairs
Spending: $137.4 billion
Percentage Change from 2012: 10.6 percent increase
Discretionary Spending: $61 billion
Highlights: Obama’s budget reflects the growing number of veterans who will need health care through the VA. The budget projects that about 610,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will get health care through VA’s hospitals and clinics this fiscal year. The budget seeks spending increases for virtually all health services provided, including a 5 percent increase for mental health services, which has become a top priority among congressional oversight committees, and a double-digit increase for health programs designed to assist female veterans.
The budget also proposes $1 billion over five years for a Veterans Jobs Corps, a new initiative that would put veterans to work rebuilding roads, trails and other infrastructure on public lands.
The budget seeks a 33 percent increase in spending to combat homelessness among veterans. The administration has set a goal of eliminating homelessness among veterans by 2015. The money would be used to hire coordinators who will help veterans with disability claims, housing problems and other needs. Additional money would be provided to non-profits that help house veterans and their families.
Obama also is seeking more money to deal with the growing number of disability claims that the department is getting from veterans. Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are filing claims that include about 8.5 disabilities per veteran, a rate nearly double that for claims from veterans of previous wars."
If you want to complain to someone, start with Rep. Bohner. He's the one that did not want to discuss anything on the cutting board.
Hail, Hail!!!
You forgot... WE hire them.
Hail, Hail!!!
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
didn't the republicans offer Obama the ability to make all the decisions on the cuts?
wouldn't have been any discussions then, President Obama could have made the cuts where he saw fit.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
I wonder what Michelle and her buds got planned on my dollar, maybe Paris?
and I was just thinking about a tour of my country's White House ... damn....
who would have thunk it.
do you really think the republicans would offer that power to obama unconditionally?
they have fought him tooth and nail on everything, even the things that they themselves originally came up with, voted on, and passed, only to withdraw support when obama agreed with them that it was a good idea or good for the country.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
And that is the root of the problem. Both sides worried more about "political pitfall" then the country they have been elected and PAID to serve.
It will be the little folk suffering no matter what.
I'm fine with budget cuts. I'm not fine with the people in charge of making those cuts basically not making a decision on what gets cut and what doesn't.
Maybe they're responding to constituents who don't want to be effected by the cuts? They're aren't many fields where if a person does their job, there's a big risk of losing that job.
The only catch is that he would be the one making the choice on where to cut as far as I know. Which is a political pitfall all its own. But there both sides are again, playing political games while Rome is burning. He should have taken it and cut spending where he wanted it cut. Pitfalls or not, the president doesn't get that power ever and he could have made some solid tough choices to cut 85 billion out of 3.7 trillion.
exactly. This shit has to happen, tuition assistance is great WHEN WE CAN AFFORD IT. Things have to go...non-essential programs have to be cut down while we get our budget in order.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
refer to the gop wanting to repeal obamacare and cut medicare and medicaid. they or their family members will never need those programs directly, so gut em, right?
you can't call for across the board spending cuts and then bitch when cuts are made.
i agree with what someone said above about this maybe keeping people from enlisting. smaller military makes it more difficult to wage war. if you cut education funding you disincentivize people from joining.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
When I was in, 25 years ago this october , we were given to one chance option during bootcamp.
I have yet to hear from my company about this, as we have a vets program that vets can take advantage of.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
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memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I'm going to have to look that one up.
But, the political climate, as it exists today... does anyone see the John Bohner lead House giving any omnipotent powers over budget spending cuts to the President? I heard Bohner doesn't care much for the President.
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If you have any references, I'd appreciate them... i'm feeling kinda lazy today.
Hail, Hail!!!
Note , I am in no way well versed in all the theater. Kind of a shameful turnoff for me.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Yes... poor little Mom and Pop Aerospace Giant Lockheed/Martin. What ever are they going to do without taxpayer contracts to make military hardware to fight a conventional war in Europe with the non-existant Soviet Union? Poor little multi-billion dollar Lockheed/Martin.
Hail, Hail!!!
More of an opinion piece on it but spells out some of the offerings
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3913
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
This is from the actual Congressional Record...
( ref. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z ... 00016:@@@X )
I have highlighted the last action and current status... which is basically, nothing. The Senate is doing what they do best... NOTHING.
S.16
Latest Title: A bill to provide for a sequester replacement.
Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 2/27/2013) Cosponsors (2)
Latest Major Action: 2/28/2013 Senate floor actions.
Status: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate.
ALL ACTIONS: 2/27/2013:
Introduced in the Senate. Read twice. Pursuant to the order of 2/14/2013, as modified on 2/26/2013, Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 19.
2/27/2013:
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S927)
2/27/2013:
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S927; text: CR S927)
2/28/2013:
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S990-991)
2/28/2013:
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 38 - 62. Record Vote Number: 26. (consideration: CR S991; text: CR S991)
2/28/2013:
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S991)
Hail, Hail!!!
yeah, the president threatened to veto it if it ever reached his desk
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
1... cut all foreign aid
2...prosecute ALL government employees milking the system and have them pay restitution by confiscating all property like they do with the drug dealers..
3...Cut all vacations and unnecessary travel paid for by American Tax Money
This could save a few billion.
I don't see why the people that put there life in danger for EVERYONE should be denied education.... especially when special arrangements have been made for illegal Immigrants so that THEY may receive an education....
all of that money tied up in antiquated weapns systems left over from the cold war is just a waste. all of that money tied up in nuclear weapons that we are never going to use is just a waste. i say we stop being so paranoid that we are going to be attacked and put that money to better use taking care of our people and creating jobs. no foreign country will ever invade us militarily, so thinking it will happen is just paranoia.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The $396 billion program is already seven years behind schedule and 70 percent over initial cost estimates.
"We'll try to protect F-35," Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's top arms buyer, told a defense conference. "There's no question about its priority. Despite sequestration, we'll still have a budget that's adequate to support F-35."
Kendall and other U.S. military officials spoke out in support of the program as it faces potentially damaging budget cuts that could lead to further delays and cost increases.
Kendall said the F-35 program still required much hard work on technical issues, noting that testing of the new radar-evading fighter was only about one-third complete. But he said the U.S. military needed the new fighter jet's next-generation capabilities.
"It is a transforming aircraft. It will give us dominance in the air, probably our most single important conventional warfighting capability for the foreseeable decades," he told a conference hosted by Credit Suisse and consultant Jim McAleese.
A congressional watchdog agency said on Monday that the Pentagon needs to budget $12.6 billion each year through 2037 to finish developing and paying for all the fighters it plans to buy. The Government Accountability Office report put the program's total cost at $400 billion"
ref. http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-vows-pro ... nance.html
Hail, Hail!!!
THIS... is the Big Picture:
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This is how the 'Everything Else' piece of the pie is distributed:
So... WHERE do you think we shoud cut?
Hail, Hail!!!
If I blindly through a dart at that pie chart I'd probably hit that orange red section, I'd make a cut there. The USA will be very safe if those cuts are made in the military. My question is why are we so scared of cutting the military budget it's not that this country will become a RED DAWN.....?
WOLVERINE!
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Wouldn't military be a part of defense spending? Therefore it shouldn't even be in "everything else"...
The 'Everything Else' part is Descretionary Spending of the entire budget. The Big Green slice (20% of the overall budget) goes for military Mandatory Spending. That is the part that we have to pay for... most of it being to fund the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and paying for all of the hardware that we are obligated to pay for.
Think of it as you household budget... you HAVE to pay the mortgage/rent, insurance, utilities, etc... That is mandatory spending. The rest is at your descretion... food, clothing, concert tickets, etc...
The military part of the budget is the bulk of our descretionary spending... think of the big green slice of pie as the amount you need to pay for that fleet of Ferarris in your driveway. And the Military spending part is what you plan to spend this year on those Ferrarris... new rims and tires every year, those slick leather Recaro Seats you want, diamond encrusted radio knobs and 900 dollar silk floor mats that need to be replaced every 2 weeks.
So... you can either cut the amount of food you give to your entitled lazy children... or quit buying silk floor mats... your descretion.
Hail, Hail!!!