Posted on Apr 24, 2015
Would and could a petition from us here presenting our desires and point of view make a difference?
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I personally am not good at writing such things, but we have too many very intelligent people here that can. It only takes 100,000 signatures to get it viewed by the POTUS and there are over 600,000 of us. Is it worth a shot?
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The first thing to understand is what the President does, and does not do.
Any issue presented has to be within the President's actual realm of responsibility and Power.
A great many things actually require Congress, as opposed to the President himself. Anything that has to do with Money, means Congress. That means VA, Retirement, and actually 99% of military operations require Congress.
Although the President is the CinC, he only has Operational control, not Budgetary control.
That said, I would need more information to help you word a specific request. I follow quite a few of the petitions over at We the People, and most of them do not seem to understand the above concept.
Any issue presented has to be within the President's actual realm of responsibility and Power.
A great many things actually require Congress, as opposed to the President himself. Anything that has to do with Money, means Congress. That means VA, Retirement, and actually 99% of military operations require Congress.
Although the President is the CinC, he only has Operational control, not Budgetary control.
That said, I would need more information to help you word a specific request. I follow quite a few of the petitions over at We the People, and most of them do not seem to understand the above concept.
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SFC Collin McMillion
I believe the intent would be for the POTUS to receive something that would almost require him to bring it to the attention of Congress. All the petitions I have seen or read about seem to always put him on the spot with the media, which in this case might just serve a good purpose seeing as how we are basically a united group and not just people looking for a reason to create issues with no true meaningful purpose. We are the " MILITARY", present and past. A hard group to ignore if enough stand up.
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SFC Collin McMillion
It's past time that we as a united front stood up for ourselves instead of one or two congressmen or senators falsely speaking for us and letting it get swept under the rug.
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SFC Collin McMillion
There are so many it's hard to chose, but I would the think most are concerned with VA care, benefit and pay cuts and post military options have been expressed a great deal.
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I don't think the question can be answered as a generality. If you want to petition for a pay raise I would doubt it very much. If the group would petition for in favor of a choice that was under consideration perhaps it would be heard. Certainly if it was just a petition to register a gripe it would probably not be honored.
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