Will Trump Really Use Service Members’ Pensions to Fund the Wall?

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Billie.jeens
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jas wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:12 pm
pinkbutterfly66 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:34 pm
jas wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:30 pm

no. How is that embezzlement? You make a budget and say you didn't spend it all on food and want to move it to pay a credit card. Same difference.
The same way it was embezzlement when private companies looted the pension funds of their employees. That's how. That money is earmarked specifically for pensions and should not be touched.
Government funds don't work the same way as private companies. Look at the social security pot for one example. Congress has "borrowed" from that pot for decades.
Facts have no affect on these people.
“Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats."
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"Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has also questioned the declaration, citing other sources of available funding that did not necessitate executive action. “They can get the money they need from the first two pots, the forfeiture fund and the anti-drug fund, so I’m not sure why they’d ever even get to the third one, which is stirring up the controversy,” he said, according to the Post. “But we’ll see how that resolves.”

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jas wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:30 pm Won't happen like it's leading you to believe. And before everyone gets up in arms, you need to understand that the money they're talking about comes from a pot. The pot will be cut - not anyone's current salary or pension. Dems have been talking about cutting that pot for decades and many benefits have already disappeared under Obama.
This is your way to get around the fact that Trump is making errors and bad choices constantly.
Can you post proof and a source that explains this “Pot” theory?
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Billie.jeens wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:16 pm
jas wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:12 pm
pinkbutterfly66 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:34 pm

The same way it was embezzlement when private companies looted the pension funds of their employees. That's how. That money is earmarked specifically for pensions and should not be touched.
Government funds don't work the same way as private companies. Look at the social security pot for one example. Congress has "borrowed" from that pot for decades.
Facts have no affect on these people.
“ these people “?
You mean the rest of us who use our heads and refuse to automatically approve of everything the unqualified narcissist in The White House does?
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