The first thing I've heard Pelosi say that I agree with...

[9andaWiggle]

These fucking scumbags knew about this 2 years ago and didn't give two shits about our service members to correct the problem. Every single one of these pieces of shit should be voted OUT of office two weeks from now! NO MORE ENCUMBENTS, KICK THEIR ASSES OUT NOW!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...-plan-veterans-bonuses-back-article-1.2844189

It's towards the end, the last paragraph. The only smart thing I've heard come out of her mouth.

 

[Djarum300]

Would the soldiers who got improper bonuses re enlist if they weren't getting them? Why were the soldiers ineligible for these bonuses? If an employer over pays by accident, the employer can ask for the money back. But that's different than signing a contract to do something with the expectation of a bonus.

In the long run, if something happens in the future needing quotas, then service men and women will be reluctant to re sign.

 

[Djarum300]

I found this:

"After being told he qualified for a $15,000 bonus as a special forces soldier, Mr. Richmond, an Army sergeant first class, reenlisted and deployed to Iraq, where he sustained injuries to his back and brain when a roadside bomb detonated."

http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/102...rd-vets-ordered-to-repay-reenlistment-bonuses

So then the recruiter screwed up. Was the bonus in the contract signed? Probably not.

 

[9andaWiggle]

Overpaying by accident is different than telling them face to face you'll get this amount, then giving them that amount. That makes it sound not so much like an accident... It sounds like a bait and switch to fuck over the people you need most. People you sent into great danger, some of which sustained life altering injuries and some who may have never come back. It's lower than low. It's absolutely disgusting. And who gets punished? Not the two faced sons of bitches that are at fault!

Like you said... I don't know why anyone would enlist these days seeing how the government takes great joy in screwing over those it depends on most. I guess hillary isn't the only heartless, elitist bitch in DC that sees the peasants as disposable fodder.

 

[AlwaysWrite]

One of the only times I have ever agreed more with the Democrats than the Republicans is with regard to their respective positions in the right-to-die legal case involving comatose Terri Schiavo that ended with her "pull-the-plug" death in 2005.