Excuse me?!

There's a lot of chatter going on lately about us (military families) not getting paid as of the 15th of April. By chatter I mean from AirforceTimes, NavyTimes, ArmyTimes and so on. So far I have no found any concrete proof of this. The government did shut down once before in 1995, the military continued getting paid, albeit a few weeks late. But, will this time be different or is this all speculation? The sad part is that if this is going to happen we won't even know until it's time for pay to go through and we see 0$.

It would seem that our illustrious government can't seem to get it's collective heads out of their asses. I've heard so many different things on this subject, everything from the military, police, firefighters and others will not be getting paid yet the welfare folks will continue to get their pay checks. To me that's bullshit.

Congress, the president and the rest of our great government make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year yet they can't be bothered to take a pay cut to help our economy. Of course not, why should they when they can take away from those protecting our country? Sure, why not, they already cut our BAH, our dental coverage which wasn't much to begin with and increased our federal taxes. Why not make it so we have to scrape even more? And they also changed the minimum income for the EIC (Earned Income Credit), which means we didn't get it this year.

I'm starting to think that Obama wants only the rich and those on welfare to survive this financial crisis. Those of us who are middle class, working Americans or active duty military families are struggling in some places. Granted, not all of the financial woes are caused by the government. Look at personal spending for example, people tend to spend more then they can afford...oh...wait, that does have to do with our government, they raised the prices of everything, including gas.

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