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12 April 2013

A Truth Journal: More WTF? More Cool From Team Obama Giving Up Salary Money in Show of Sequestration Layoff Solidarity?

President Barack Obama waits for a heavy rain to pass before crossing West Executive Avenue from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to the West Wing of the White House, March 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

12 March 2013, West Wing Wait: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

A Truth Journal: More WTF? More Cool From Team Obama Giving Up Salary Money in Show of Sequestration Layoff Solidarity?: From Denny: America, forget about political optics, sliding our way this entire past week was more cool from the Obama White House channel.

Yes, it's true. There actually are federal officials giving away their money back to taxpayers. Happily blame Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter for starting this trend when they jumped up and volunteered to put some skin in the sequestration game.
(See this post for details.)

"Yes, don't ask of your country what they can do for your wallet but rather volunteer some of your paycheck back to your country's wallet" may be the new political trend? One thing is for sure, these Democrats definitely make the Republicans look like the usual stingy political losers flying their freak flags on the national political highway.

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03 April 2013

A Truth Journal: Cool WTF? Government Officials Are Voluntarily Giving Up Salaries Back to Taxpayers?

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A Truth Journal: Cool WTF? Government Officials Are Voluntarily Giving Up Salaries Back to Taxpayers?: From Denny: Just when we are all so furiously angered at the selfishness of our government officials for the usual screw-ups, pure laziness and lack of will to make positive corrections, there happens to be two of them that rose above and beyond the call of duty. Yes, there are two federal officials that have landed in the Admiration Corner today. These two men are class acts.

Turns out the sequestration mess caused high levels of Pentagon civilian employee furloughs - to the tune of 750,000 people. The plan was to lay off these unhappy folks for 22 days but that has been cut back to 14 days. Still, it isn't easy to lose one of your paychecks - even though it's spread out over many months through September.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that huge block of civilian furloughs will save $2.5 billion for the Pentagon budget. The sequestration across-the-board budget cuts went into effect on 1 March which amounts to $41 billion. This $2.5 billion employee furlough will be tacked to that reduction.

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Helping homeless female military veterans come home. Started up this foundation charity when I read about how 5,000 or more female military veterans are homeless, most due to having been raped while serving in the military.

Currently, the Pentagon is not helping them as active women service members only make up 15 percent of the military. Their needs involve the issue of PTSD. The Pentagon is falling down on helping ALL soldiers with PTSD as thousands commit suicide every year from being denied help for eight months or longer after returning from a war zone.

This little foundation charity is working off the model of giving its profits to those charities who are working to help those suffering from PTSD and homeless female military vets. For those of you who are already supporting this funding effort, thank you! Please tell your friends and let's pull together to get our former service members properly housed and the medical help they need.

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