U.S. Coast Guard commandant Admiral Karl Schultz sent out a letter to his guardsmen acknowledging their first missed paycheck and letting them know that he is working with service organizations to get donations to tide them over.
“Today you will not be receiving your regularly scheduled mid-month paycheck,” Schultz wrote. “To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nation’s history that service members in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in government appropriations.”
He added, “It is also not lost on me that our dedicated civilians are already adjusting to a missed paycheck — we are confronting this challenge together.”
Read the letter here:
“¡Follame! Podría haber sido dueño de la Guardia Costera.”
— El Chapo, last week, in New Jersey.
If Coast Guardsmen have any time after their extra-curricular careers as Mystery Shoppers maybe they can hold a bake sale.
So, under Trump, America has literally reached the stage of that Reagan-era bumper sticker:
But not in a good way…
"I’ll never forgive [Barack Obama] for what he did to our United States military.”
Donald Trump
Forgiving himself is never a problem for Trump.
That is a nice gesture from USAA.
I’m a little surprised that banks have not publicly stepped up to announce no fee/no interest payday loans to any federal worker that has a checking account with direct deposit. That can’t cost much to set up and would result in a customer for a lifetime. To sweeten the deal, maybe use the USAA funds to offset the banks cost for setting this up and subsidize interest for such a program.