They have closed the commissaries at all military bases because of the shutdown. They have never done this in a government shutdown before. Why are they doing it this time? They are only doing this for effect.
Imagine the troops overseas right now in Germany and other countries. The prices for food in Europe are outrageous. Troops rely on commissaries to be able to eat at an affordable price. They are now forced to purchase their food in the towns around them. What about the PFC that has three kids and is living paycheck to paycheck? He has to go buy his chow in a German town at three times the price of the commissary.
How would you feel if tomorrow you went to buy your food and it was three times the price? Would you still want to fight for your country? They are using the military as pawns in their game. It is a game to them. But don’t worry, Congress and the Executive Branch still get their free haircuts and all the BS that they don’t earn.
They claim they are closing the stores because they can’t fund them. These are grocery stores. What the hell are they going to do with all of the meat and produce? They will have to throw it all away.
Imagine the military spouse that works at the commissary to help make ends meet. Are they getting paid? No, but the POS’s in DC that caused this are still getting their checks.
They are only doing this to hurt people and piss everyone off.
Don’t blame the Republicans alone. Blame all of them, Democrats and Republicans and the entire Executive Branch. They are intentionally hurting people to further their agenda.
I personally will never support any of these pond scum “representatives” ever again. They do not represent me in any way.
I just spoke to my daughter who is married to an Army Medic stationed at Ft. Riley. She said they are being told that they may not get paid on the 15th of this month due to the shutdown. These scumbags are going to withhold paychecks from our troops to get their point across?
How much longer are we going to put up with this?
Here a story about the commissaries closing from The Press Enterprise - by RICHARD K. De ATLEY
The commissary at March Air Reserve Base is usually a bustling marketplace for active and retired military members and their families, but on Wednesday, Oct. 2, would-be shoppers slowed as they pulled their cars into an empty parking lot with neatly corralled shopping carts and looked into the windows of a dark store.
A large sandwich-board sign near one of the entrances read: “GVMN’T SHUTDOWN COMMISSARY CLOSED.”
Military base commissaries, where eligible shoppers can buy groceries tax-free, were closed throughout the nation Wednesday, the second day of the federal government shutdown.
About 12 million people are eligible to shop at the 246 commissaries on military installations worldwide. The commissaries typically carry everything a national supermarket chain would — including brand-name products — but at much lower prices than their commercial competitors.
Non-essential federal operations stopped at midnight Monday after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to reach a deal on funding the government past Oct. 1.
House Republicans want to repeal or delay the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare. Democrats and President Barack Obama refused. On Wednesday, Obama called Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to the White House to discuss the matter. No progress was reported.
The shutdown hit too close to home for Mitchell Geriminsky, 59, a retired Air Force veteran. On Wednesday afternoon, Geriminsky pulled up outside the March Air Reserve Base Commissary in his pickup truck and slowed to read the sign.
“This is really ridiculous,” he said.
“For them to close down and hurt the retirement community and also active-duty and reserves is ludicrous. It really is.”
Geriminsky, a Cherry Valley resident who has a business in Riverside, said he shopped at the commissary at least twice a week.
The nearby Base Exchange, which includes civilian stores, remained open Wednesday afternoon.
The military is required to sell goods at its commissaries at cost. There is a 5 percent surcharge on all products to help pay for new commissaries and improve existing ones, but no sales tax on the products sold.
Just outside the base later Wednesday, a small group of union members held signs and a banner across the street from March Air Reserve Base’s main entrance on Cactus Avenue, asking drivers to call their congressmen and urge an end to the shutdown.
The hastily organized late-afternoon protest drew only about five members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3854. They did their best to be noticed, holding up the union’s banner and signs urging an end to the federal government shutdown. Passing drivers honked and waved their approval.
“Unpaid Government Workers Can’t Buy Your Stuff,” one sign said.
Todd Shorack, vice-president of the local, said a long stretch of workers without paychecks will have a ripple effect on the local economy.
“So many people have been furloughed, and this local area is going to be impacted,” he said.
He said the civilian workers at March make purchases near the base, buying gasoline, patronizing restaurants and shopping in local stores.
Officials at March said Tuesday they could only disclose that more than 500 civilian employees at the base were furloughed Tuesday.
The base is one of Riverside County’s largest employers, with an estimated 8,500 workers including reservists, civilian workers and military units. Some civilian workers were retained as essential for various duties at the base.
Shorack said he is certain the number of furloughed civilians workers is much higher.
He said his union represents a variety of workers at the base and has about 280 members, including national cemetery workers, air reserve technicians who repair planes, and the American Forces Broadcast Center workers, where Shorack, a Temecula resident, says he worked until he was furloughed Tuesday.
He said the group plans to picket at the same spot from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily until the shutdown ends.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/moreno-valley/moreno-valley-headlines-index/20131002-government-shutdown-commissary-closed-at-march-air-reserve-base.ece
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