Military retireess do not depend on government. It’s the other way around.
One doesn’t spend 20 plus years in the military with government depending on them and come out with a sense of neediness.
If they don’t work, it’s because they can’t, not because they choose to take from taxpayers.
And they are not looking for handouts nor to sell their votes to Obama.
Mitt surely takes this into account, and does not include them.
Mitt’s talking about people whose votes are for sale to those who will give them stuff and who don’t care about the health or the future of the country and who wouldn’t understand austerity if they were overrun.
the military retirees are on the opposite end of that spectrum if they are even in the same universe.