I agree that the promise was lifetime health care.
I am willing, under one condition, to take less than promised.
As one who the US Constitution actually mentions, the military, and as a retiree from the one, basic role of the US government, the defense of the nation, I actually have a solid footing for insisting that my benefits not be touched. However, I am willing under one condition.
That all other superfluous, wasteful, duplicative, fraudulent and abusive spending FIRST be cut. Cut spending to the bone, and if this country then evidence that it needs to cut more, then I will agree to a cut.
But, it’s insane for me to be cut just so some politician can waste billions on solyndras, food stamps, ssi, junkets, and economy-killing programs.
Why should I give $1000 to a guy who will waste it on caviar and shrimp at the next GSA or State Department bash?
Shouldn’t THAT be stopped first?!!
I retired back in 96 with 20, that lie that was told to so many from the 70's and back to the hero's of WWII, Korea, VietNam is a stab in the back to those.
By a congress that will not live up to it's oath to the constitution.
It is not a matter of just us, it is a matter of honor, of which these clowns in DC have no concept of.
That goes for the clowns in DoD as well, for expediency they have divested themselves of any allegiance to their oath or their service.
I don't mean the Service Secretaries because they are just politicians and as useless as the other politicians. I mean the clowns in uniform that will not stand for the troops, case in point As I write this I am in Kabul and I have never in my 30+ years associated with the mil seen such risk averse candy ass lack of spine leadership.
They are at the risk of every service member here playing some BS game with a administration that has proven to be less than above board on who they are dealing with, propping up a 7th Century (at its best) feudal corrupt administration that was put in place by another corrupt as well as its successor corrupt administration and a State Department that is walking us into several more combat operations Syria,Libya, Iran for no good reason.