Article 8 10/5/12

Will candidates let returning troops fall off the fiscal cliff?

By Ron A. Astor, Special to CNN

updated 5:03 PM EDT, Wed October 3, 2012

Brief Summary : With the presidential race heading into its final stretch, both candidates vow to protect the sacred promises made to military families. But neither is offering any details on how they might support military families if we hit a fiscal cliff with budget cuts that could wipe out services for military and veterans' families.


The problem here is that no candidate is actually making a plan to integrate military family members into civilians. Many troops are having struggling to see where their future will take them because of deployment . Republicans and Democrats are saying they will do something about it but aren't really explaining how and they are not making any actions to resolve the issue yet.  After more than 10 years of war in Iraq and men and women in uniform continuing to die in Afghanistan, this silence on a national plan or funding for services only increases the stress and uncertainty that military families feel every day.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/opinion/astor-vets-candidates/index.html