President Obama stated Monday that he would support a 20% pay reduction for retiring military personnel as well as redefining benefits for those that leave before achieving 20 year of service. So it’s only a matter of time before these recommendations are realized.
Obama has been cutting natural born citizens out of the military while simultaneously hiring illegal immigrants. He has also been ending highly successful military programs and allowing different components the military to simply degrade, prompting the Washington Times to state that Obama has our decimated our military, leaving the US only ‘marginally able’ to defend itself.
How does President Obama explain his intentions?
After the jump, see insights reported in the Washington Times article, including excerpts from Obama’s message to Congress:
But yet he is trying to give billions to Iran who supports terriost. Why the hell is this no good traitor still in office.
why dont they cut pay for all politicians 20%, now theres an idea.
So this has been going on for a while?
Don’t you believe now that he has an “agenda” against the US?
A REAL P***K
He needs to sign himself a 80
The green visor, Bob Cratchett budget types have been after military retirements for years and years. 50% of base pay at 20 years of service is generous compared to private industry, but private industry rarely asks their employees to die on the job, so it is a poor comparison that has always failed to gain support.
The latest spin has been that the military retirement is unfair to the majority of folks that leave service BEFORE 20 years and get ZERO pension. Current system is ‘cliff vesting’ – you get 50% at 20 years, but nothing at 19 years, 11 months. This revision attacks the 50%/20 years under guise of being fair to the folks who serve fewer than 20.
“Support the troops” is good for a yellow ribbon on your SUV… and that is about it.
Our military veterans have earned their meager retirement. How about we cut the lifetime retirements and benefits that the president, congress, house and all the government crooks retire with! They sure as hell haven’t earned THEIR retirement packages!
That’s because he’s worthless and only cares about certain topics and agendas that matter to him. I’m counting the days that this little $#%&!@* is out of office.
This story is over 5 months old. Misleading.