Posted on Apr 21, 2016
Congress is already squabbling over next year's military pay raise
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Just reading this article make me want to puke. The same legislators that pontificate over $15 an hour for fast food workers, want to go on the cheep when it comes to paying our military. I did the raw math with entitlements and the average PVT to SGT makes somewhere between 7 to 9 dollars an hour, particularly when on deployment.
It drives me nuts because these same elected representatives are also quick to extend unemployment and expand welfare benefits to what are (in my mind at least) the undeserving and the illegal aliens. Then they turn around and talk about cutting VA benefits and raid the Social Security accounts of the elderly.
The final insult to injury is the voting for their own pay raises while capping the pay disabled veterans, SS recipients, and active duty & reserve Soldiers. The reasoning is they need to balance the budget....get real!!!! This is a major reason I am all for term limits.
It drives me nuts because these same elected representatives are also quick to extend unemployment and expand welfare benefits to what are (in my mind at least) the undeserving and the illegal aliens. Then they turn around and talk about cutting VA benefits and raid the Social Security accounts of the elderly.
The final insult to injury is the voting for their own pay raises while capping the pay disabled veterans, SS recipients, and active duty & reserve Soldiers. The reasoning is they need to balance the budget....get real!!!! This is a major reason I am all for term limits.
Congress is already squabbling over next year's military pay raise
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Honestly, my opinion is that "Cost of Living" increases to Base Pay should be removed from the annual Legislature. We should write a singular Law that states:
"1) Military Pay will increase at a rate Commensurate (equal) with the Consumer Price Index %. On years where there is a Negative Increase (Decrease), there will be no pay increase, and it will be subtracted from from the subsequent year(s).
"2) On the year following the Census, Military Pay will be assessed to ensure that is in-line with the Civilian Market.
"3) Allowances to include but not limited to Basic Housing Allowance, Rations, etc will be adjusted based on local market conditions on a yearly basis but will increase per Para. 1, and per Federal Housing Regulations."
"1) Military Pay will increase at a rate Commensurate (equal) with the Consumer Price Index %. On years where there is a Negative Increase (Decrease), there will be no pay increase, and it will be subtracted from from the subsequent year(s).
"2) On the year following the Census, Military Pay will be assessed to ensure that is in-line with the Civilian Market.
"3) Allowances to include but not limited to Basic Housing Allowance, Rations, etc will be adjusted based on local market conditions on a yearly basis but will increase per Para. 1, and per Federal Housing Regulations."
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CW4 Craig Urban
We have put our lives on the line. Plus they want to mess with my social security. I think retirees should get the same increase as active duty.
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