Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)
It makes me angry, the institution of bean counters and careerists ignoring the extreme wrong of making the Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airman who serve our country pay a huge, deeply moral busting, price for THEIR MISTAKE is just - WRONG!
You guys screwed up, you paid that bonus to all those soldiers, THEY KEPT THEIR PART OF THE CONTRACT, and you should just eat the costs and call it a LESSON LEARNED. You implemented the program and it was FLAWED, it would not have happened if you did what the military is supposed to do as professionals; planned, planned, and planned until it was right THEN and ONLY THEN implement the plan.
So, when I read how the Secretary of Defense was suspending all actions toward collection I said, Yea! Then I read the article and found his response a “MISDIRECTION” to take the issue out of peoples minds so LATER they could go back to collecting the money from the soldiers, etc.
He said, according to the article, “Carter said he's ordering the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service to "suspend all efforts to collect reimbursement from affected California National Guard members" until he's satisfied that the process has become more efficient and fair.”
BULLSHIT SIR, make those who created and implemented the flawed plan take the proper responsibility for their mistake, don’t take it out on the soldiers! They screwed the pooch, so let them eat it and you sir should eat it as well as a part of your budget. Call it a mistake and let the costs be absorbed in the Departments overall budget. Your misdirection of “until he's satisfied that the process has become more efficient and fair,” tells me that you still want to lay the responsibility for leaderships mistakes on those who requested and were granted the bonuses, it was your flawed plan that got things wrong, not the soldiers.
Your statement should have been, “I want to thank those soldiers who, without malice and aforethought, rightly took the bonuses, reenlisted and served and I want to personally tell you all that because we, the leadership, made this mistake will absorb the lost costs in our budget. Your service, dedication and honor should not be besmirched so we can lay off blame on you when it is my responsibility as Secretary to make things right, morally and honor bound right!”
You also said, "Ultimately, we will provide for a process that puts as little burden as possible on any soldier who received an improper payment through no fault of his or her own," Carter said. "At the same time, it will respect our important obligation to the taxpayer." Your responsibility to us, the taxpayer, is to own up to YOUR mistake. To put as little burden as possible on any soldier would be better served by saying, “We shall not put this burden on the soldier, we will take responsibility for our mistake as our obligation to the taxpayer.”
Get some guts, gets some intestinal fortitude and own up to your mistake and leaderships mistake in implementing and processing the program! Shame on you for letting this go on for so long, you did that because the outcry became to loud so now you act, shame on you!
(Note: Keep this kind of stuff up and one day you will find NO MILITARY to defend our way of life; PPPPPP - piss poor planning promotes poor performance)
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