Posted on 12/23/2013 4:34:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's actually a one percent cut in the rate of increase beginning in 2015.
Ryan is as big an A-hole as Soetoro. Fire his azz.
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I miss ‘ol Nixon. Can you imagine what they would done to him if he’d done a tenth of what the current occupant has been doing?
No joke.
Drawn and quartered?
Keel Hauled?
Tarred and feathered?
Or....they would have just hanged him for TREASON.
Then again, he was a White guy, Patriot and a Vet.
I think the headline is wrong. It’s retired veterans who are getting screwed. The rest of us veterans are waiting for ours.
NOW we see why the government wants to disarm vets.
From the article:
Murray, for her part, promises a fix only to exempt disabled veterans.
That is not correct - Murray has backed off from even alleviating disabled veterans of the cuts to their retirement pensions. She and Ryan are now spewing rhetoric to cover their butts, by saying that "those service members retired for medical reasons."
2nd Division Vet, you and I both know that is a very small group of individuals, many of those medically retired before 20 years had non-combat related conditions (such as cancer, Lupus, or other ailments), the process is laborious, and it does not cover to retirees who have legitimate combat or service related injuries and who fought the Veterans Administration for years to get even a small percentage rating acknowledging their injuries. God bless our medically retired military - they earned that right to retire early, but the public should NOT be fooled. Ryan's bread crumb offering "fix" to our military is only a smoke screen
Ryan and Murray and hawking this proposal to quell the public outrage. It is deceptive, and it is further evidence of their complete malfeasance.
Even as I type this, they are scheming.
By excluding the proposed "fix" to only medically retired, Hagel can screw over the military to the full intent - and this was the purpose of this entire sneak attack. He intends to use this "victory" of making retiree pensions degraded through inflation to even further erode all benefits for retired and currently serving military: TRICARE, compensation, further retirement changes, housing, eliminating civil service retirement for veterans, eliminating concurrent receipt of VA payments to disabled retirees, elimination of military pay raises altogether, and increased taxes on the military troops and retirees (although they won't call it a tax).
This pension theft must be eliminated for all military. If there are reforms to be made, they need to be properly vetted in the public sphere, and if they are introduced in an honest manner (unlike this budget deal abortion), then veterans and military serving will at least know what to expect and plead for fairness and equability.
The fight has only just begun. The first thing we should do is pray. If God Almighty is before us, we cannot be defeated.
"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
Romans 8:31
The second thing we should do is join a veterans or military advocacy organization.
The third thing we should do is contact our Senators and Representatives.
I guarantee you that they, and their staffers, are reading the news posts and the comments. I have. They are OVERWHELMINGLY filled with outrage from the American people. Still, that is not enough - as Washington DC holds the people in contempt. We must politically fight them. With God's help, we will win.
Good for you.
Usually, those people working the phones must log in the reason for the person receiving the call said they would not donate. The RNC uses this as an informal "poll" of where they have gone wrong.
I pray your conversation was repeated 1,000 times by other real Americans.
Very poignant - thank you. Merry Christmas.
I had to move a few years ago - the town I lived in started to go rapidly downhill. Crime went ballistic. We discovered that a town several miles away had closed its housing project - and the Federal government gave them all Section 8 vouchers to move into three different apartment complexes in our town. It didn't take long. The schools became violent and unsafe for even little children. Illegal drugs and the drug trade became epidemic - even in parks adjacent to several homes. Two subdivisions that had basketball courts that the residents paid for became overrun with gangs.
Yet - these programs are not cut, but disabled military and military retirees are.
Not to the New York Daily News's credit, Sheenhan is a democRat...
And I can't believe it, but I support her bill! I REALLY hope some Republicans of the Conservative stripe join her!!!!
Merry Christmas :>}
I would write my RAT “representatives” and dress them down as they deserve, but they have no shame anyway, so I’ll save my energy...
What a damnable piece of legislation...rot in hell Ryan and the rest of you bastards who signed on to this.
Spit!
And you as well!
She is up for re-election this year and was a big lying proponent of Obamacare and is feeling the heat!
This act is an attempt to make up for six years of betraying America and the State of New Hampshire. It will not work!
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