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http://www.military.com/news/article/white-house-confirms-shutdown-would-delay-troop-pay.html?ESRC=eb.nl
Medicare will still make payments for claims, but doctors and hospital staff may have payments delayed if shutdown lingers.
Military will only be paid 1/2 for the last two weeks of work. Next paycheck could be delayed
Federal court cases will be delayed as no one will be able to work.
Taxes filed electronically will be fine, but everyone that filed on paper may face delays on their tax returns if they filed at the last minute.
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, will not admit new patients and will stop all research. Current patients will be cared for.
Medicare will still make payments for claims, but doctors and hospital staff may have payments delayed if shutdown lingers.
Military will only be paid 1/2 for the last two weeks of work. Next paycheck could be delayed
Federal court cases will be delayed as no one will be able to work.
Taxes filed electronically will be fine, but everyone that filed on paper may face delays on their tax returns if they filed at the last minute.
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, will not admit new patients and will stop all research. Current patients will be cared for.
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Thats my bread and butter.
I wish these f**king political d**ksuckers would pass a budget.
But it seems no one wants to put the battle axe to the grindstone.
Just to let you know, that's a little offensive. More so because this morning one of my joes comes running up to me and starts crying, wanting to know how he is supposed to pay his mortgage. The reason for this? Our LES (Leave and Earning Statement's; aka pay stub) populated this am. We are deployed, away from our families, and friends for a year at minimum. The LES says that we are only getting paid until today. For the next few days, weeks, maybe months, I will be over here **** things up less, while worrying about my families livelyhood, so you can sit there and accuse me of **** things up. If I was home it'd be no big deal, I'd go find some side work, but I'm not home, I don't get to sleep with my wife or see my kids; all because I believe in what this country that I think is awesome (the country, not government) is all about! Kiss your wife and kids, shake your friends hand and be nice to your parents. Do it for me, because I would give anything to have a chance to even SEE mine right now.
I'm in the same boat DS. Had two of my soldiers asking me what are we to do? They took this deployment here so they could better take care of their families that they left back in Maryland. I'm okay because I don't depend on the government soley, but these E-2's and E-4's do. Now I'm stuck with disgruntled young soldiers that have a right to be, that I have to keep motivated. Our CO on our day off holds a formation to explain it all and to ensure we all will show up for work. And their looking at him like are you serious. Work for free and you don't know when we will get paid again. Now these are individuals who work on aircrafts. Plus we are away from our families. This is some mess...
Here are some numbers for ya.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7304300.stm
"BBC states and mind you this is from 2008: The Iraq war has proved far more costly than the US government thought when it went to war five years ago. But controversy still rages over the ultimate size of the bill for the war, with some suggesting the cost could reach $3 trillion ($3,000bn, or £1,500bn). According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the direct costs of the war on terror, which include operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, have so far have reached $752bn, if the current year's appropriation of $188bn is included. "
Now fox "news" states: "Eight Years of Iraq War Cost Less Than Stimulus Act" http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/30/cbo-years-iraq-war-cost-stimulus-act/ Now we haven't even mentioned the costs of payouts to dead soldiers and the medical costs even the costs down the road. Not to mention the costs of buidling *** over there. We are still there, and obama said that combat is over and yes I think a lot of it's bs, but really that's how it is played. We will never leave.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/little-known-fact-obama039s-failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-iraq-war
You might not like the idea of the government not being able to take care of every American, but it just isn't possible.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/86xx/doc8690/10-24-CostOfWar_Testimony.pdf
Maybe you should read the facts not some bs that is adopting a tidbit of info from a report. Just like other posts from others around here trying to push lies about medicare costs and cuts.
I'd pipe in here but you guys are covering most of the bases.
WOOOps to ya Ryan
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf
Repubs/Dems generally agreed on a number, around $33 billion, but differences still include:
- Dems want the $33 bill in cuts to come out of a general slush fund for agencies; this slush fund consists of money that may or may not ever be spent; Repubs want the $33 bill to come from agency budgets
- Dems have given in on EPA; Cap-and-trade was a loser policy idea, and they aren't about to defend EPA from Repub efforts to bar them from regulating CO2
- Big sticking point is Planned Parenthood's $360 mill funding; Repubs want to cut it, Dems are going to the mat for PP
- Reid says there's broad agreement on the cuts; Boehner says there's no agreement. Steney Hoyer, Democratic whip, comments that both men are right; there is an agreement on the number, but until there's agreement on everything, no bill is getting through.
Currently there's a bill pending in the Senate that would cut $12 bill from the budget, fund the Gov't for another week, cut funding to PP, and fund the Pentagon for the rest of the year; Reid's said the 1-week measure is a no-go, and Obama's threatened to veto it.