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I’m for responsible reforms to military retirement too, but only as long as they’re the exact same adjustments to our bloated government civil service retirement. If they want to apply a 1% reduction to all currently retired military then the same 1% reduction should be applied to all currently retired civil service — and that’s not what they did. The reduction only applies to currently serving civil service who later retire. How is that “responsible”, or fair?

[SkyPilot]

From today's headlines:

Hagel: COLA cuts won't impact disabled vets

The problem is, Hagel is fudging the facts. His DoD only wants to exempt those who were medically retired earlier than 20 years, even for a non-combat injury condition.

Hagel does not want to count VA Disabled veterans who served their 20 year commitment, even those with Purple Hearts who are 100% disabled.

The news media is swallowing this obfuscation hook, line, and sinker. ABC and Military Times are all running stories meant to convince the gullible public that "disabled vets" are taken care of and won't have their pensions cut. It is a lie.

Moreover, if what Ryan and Hagel have been saying is true, and the pension cuts are so "minor" as to not even be noticed, then why is he wandering the military hospital wards with media photographers and reporters in tow, making a big show of who compassionate he is to allow them to escape the pension cuts?