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Location: Displaced Iowegian | This is outrageous that thousands of CA soldiers are being required to pay back a bonus that they received to join and fight ..... If they refuse to pay, they can be charged interest, wage garnishment and tax liens .......
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Report-California-Soldiers-Ordered-to-Repay-Enlistment-Bonuses-398046881.html
Please sign this petition ......
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reverse-decision-forced-thousands-military-veterans-repay-bonuses-they-received-going-war
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Done  |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | It's a national disgrace.
I signed. |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | Thats dicusting. I SIGNED,thank you for posting |
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 To the Left
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Location: Florida | How could this happen? All over the country and not found for 10 years! The instructions given to the state National Guard comanders must have been wrong or misleading. This is horrible, there should be a statute of limitations that would cover this. |
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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | I signed. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | I'm sure the White House will be on this like a duck on a Junebug.
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Please post the petition link on your FB .... I would rather see a hundred links pop up on my feed than more Trump/Hillary posts..... |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | I have yet to read or see anything that explained how this happened.
The over payment that is |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | 1DSoon - 2016-10-24 2:54 PM I have yet to read or see anything that explained how this happened.
The over payment that is
This article gives a little more insight as to how they supposedly over paid .....
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | Sadly Congress has know about this for years and failed to act. Par for the course. |
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Location: CTX | NJJ - 2016-10-24 1:17 PM Please post the petition link on your FB .... I would rather see a hundred links pop up on my feed than more Trump/Hillary posts.....
Signed and shared on my fb. This is a total disgrace!!  |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Another kick in the gut to our military.
Signed.
Thanks for sharing.
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Location: Texas | Signed |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I went and signed again.. |
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 Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
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Location: Florida.. | they no doubt will hand over to the care of refugees... yes a slapin the face.. pathetic scroundrals.. |
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Location: Arkansas | Done. Our government is a shameless hussy |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | How much more crazy can stuff like this be? Disgusting!!!!!!! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Hope that everyone gos back and votes again |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | I find it strange that threads here that "bash" Hillary or Trump get more response than a disgrace happening to our military.....Even the "Walking Dead" thread got more traffic........SMH !!!
Edited by NJJ 2016-10-25 9:02 AM
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Location: Utah | Done and thank you for posting. |
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To the Left
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Location: Florida | I heard on the news last night that this is the fault of one government official's criminal actions. Not sure what that means but the impression was someone did it to help one person and everybody got sucked in. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | NJJ - 2016-10-25 8:59 AM I find it strange that threads here that "bash" Hillary or Trump get more response than a disgrace happening to our military.....Even the "Walking Dead" thread got more traffic........SMH !!!
I had already read about and discussed it on FB. I signed the petition, although change.org isn't really legit since there's no signature verification, and petitions can be edited after people have signed. IOW no one will take it seriously. I do hope our govt does the right thing and lets the soldiers keep the money they earned. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I've gone back a few times checking to see how much the numbers have changed for the votes, moving pretty good, I have voted every time I gone back to check. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Three 4 Luck - 2016-10-25 10:33 AM NJJ - 2016-10-25 8:59 AM I find it strange that threads here that "bash" Hillary or Trump get more response than a disgrace happening to our military.....Even the "Walking Dead" thread got more traffic........SMH !!!
It has jumped from 3000+ votes to 24,000+ in a little over 24 hours but there are several petitions listed on the same subject.
Edited by NJJ 2016-10-25 5:50 PM
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Location: So. California | It's an absolute disgrace!! We should be calling our Congressmen and Senators and DEMAND they correct this. They are the ones who make the laws after all....
If they can quickly pass a "tax allowance" law for the Olympians, they can quickly pass a fix for this situation. The government LIED when these men and women enlisted. THEY need to fix it!! |
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Location: north dakota | I voted and shared on FB |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I wonder if Obama likes seeing this. He's probably thinking it takes at least some of the focus off the latest ObamaCare news, which is disastrous. It wouldn't surprise me if he figured us peons can't focus on more than one disgrace at the same time. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | NJJ - 2016-10-25 5:49 PM Three 4 Luck - 2016-10-25 10:33 AM NJJ - 2016-10-25 8:59 AM I find it strange that threads here that "bash" Hillary or Trump get more response than a disgrace happening to our military.....Even the "Walking Dead" thread got more traffic........SMH !!!
It has jumped from 3000+ votes to 24,000+ in a little over 24 hours but there are several petitions listed on the same subject.
My bad. The one I saw was was change.org. I'll go sign this one too. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I was watching on our news last night about a soldier going threw this mess, hes saying that when they did get these bonus they got taxed on them so they didnt get the full bonus, but the pentagon whats the full amount from the men and women that were payed to them befor the taxes were taking out. What the He**!!!
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2016-10-26 9:28 AM
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | It was just posted on Foxnews that they have stopped this and are not going to try and collect. |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/26/carter-suspends-pentagon-s-demand-return-cash-bonuses-to-california-soldiers.html
DEVELOPING: The U.S. Secretary of Defense said Tuesday that he is ordering the Pentagon to suspend its effort to recover the decade-old reenlistment bonuses paid to thousands of California Army National Guard soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
About 2,000 soldiers were recently told they had to repay the cash bonuses that, in some cases, amounted to $15,000 or more.
Ash Carter, the secretary, said in a statement that there is a process in place to assist soldiers who seek relief of such obligations, and in this case, “hundreds” of Guard members have already sought and have been granted relief.
“But that process has simply moved too slowly and in some cases imposed unreasonable burdens on service members,” the statement read. “That is unacceptable.”
Carter did not mention any timeframe that the suspension will expire, but he insisted that it will be in place until he is “satisfied that our process is working effectively.”
Faced with a shortage of troops at the height of the two wars, California Guard officials offered bonuses of $15,000 or more for soldiers to reenlist.
A federal investigation in 2010 found thousands of bonuses and student loan payments were improperly doled out to California Guard soldiers. About 9,700 current and retired soldiers received notices to repay some or all of their bonuses with more than $22 million recovered so far.
Soldiers said they feel betrayed at having to repay the money.
"These bonuses were used to keep people in," said Christopher Van Meter, a 42-year-old former Army captain and Iraq veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart. "People like me just got screwed."
Van Meter said he refinanced his home mortgage to repay $25,000 in reenlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments that the military says was improperly given to him.
The California Guard said it has to follow the law and collect the money.
"At the end of the day, the soldiers ended up paying the largest price," Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California Guard told the Times. "We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts. We just can't do it. We'd be breaking the law." |
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Location: The edge of no where | My question is what about the $$ they've already collected from the soldiers? That should be returned to them.... this is such a disgrace to us all! Of all the ways they could save $$, they're stooping to this crap? WTH? |
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SHAMEFUL .....Soldiers must pay back bonus!