Just looked. It had 14,000 more signatures than it needed. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, myself along with over one hundred thousand service members have signed a > petition on We The People, a White House run site that allows citizens to > generate petitions. So now we wait to see if this works. > > Today this was in the news: > > The White House will have to consider reinstating tuition assistance for > troops after a petition on its official website garnered more than 100,000 > signatures. > > A petition titled Reinstate Military Tuition Assistance and block the Armed > Service Branches from any further suspension of TA was posted March 8 on We > the people. > > This White House-run website invites Americans to start petitions on issues > important to them. If a petition is able to get enough online signatures, the > White House staff has to review it. President Obama will sometimes respond > himself. > > The TA petition needed 100,000 signatures to force an official response and > has already reached more than 112,300. You can read the petition here > (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reinstate-military-tuition-assistance-ta-and-block-armed-service-branches-any-further-suspension-ta/kSyVdySm). > > Reinstating TA should be accomplished by Executive Order as Commander in > Chief, the petition states. > > In spite of our countries current economic situation and the polarizing > politics involved, Service Member benefits such as Tuition Assistance should > not be compromised as a result. Access to Higher Education is important to > Service Members as it allows for career and professional advancement. > > The Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard have all suspended TA for > the year as a way to cut costs. Navy officials are still considering their > options and have not made a d > >
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