Key words: Working Age
Why should healthy veterans who retire in their early 40s believe that getting a check with generous COLAs for the next 40 years is healthy for the country?
This article that uses a figure of $3700 'loss' in one year, based on a 1% lower COLA has to be doing math that multiplies 3700 by 100 equalling 370000.
Please tell me what retiree gets $370,000 a year in retirement checks.
If a Forbes writer and his editor cannot do math what hope is there for any opinion in that magazine.
Maybe because they signed a contract with the federal government. A veteran who has served the last 20 yrs. has been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan numerous times. While deployed he or she is on duty 24/7. While deployed they risk life and limb and do so with a minimum of complaining. Who is more deserving of a pension.....a military retiree or the run of the mill government employee who not only risks nothing but receives a much larger pension than a veteran in the equivocal position!!!