How about working to bring back American jobs?
Just saying...
“If you like your salary grade, you can’t keep it.” - B.O.
Tell your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, cousins and neighbors to stay as far away as possible until a real American sits in the White House again, and no, that doesn’t include Hillary.
Fuster Cluck on the way.
And, if this were Ancient Rome, the soldiers would quickly find a solution to the problem.
The benefits of the Military are being severely cut. We promise these benefits to the men and women who, in exchange, will lay down their life for this country. I am so ashamed this fraud has control of so much. Americans deserve better.
Cut these instead:
EPA
Interior Dept
HHS
Commerce
Dept of Energy Suppression
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
This is about as stupid as the board asking a department VP why his overhead and cost of sales went up when he quadrupled revenue and increased profit by five times.
Of course labor is going to increase as a percentage of total cost if you cut way back on capital programs.
Idiots.
How about kicking out the useless civilian bureaucrats that infest the Pentagon and give the warfighters raises?
I’m a military retiree who has very major health issues caused by my service. Up to this point, I have been very happy by the way my country has taken care of me, what with my pension and Tricare health coverage...
But this just takes the cake.
I have lots of anger at Obama and the democrats, but I really blame all my countrymen and women who vote for these idiots. These dumb f@#$ks learned NOTHING from WWII or 9/11.
I wish to hell I let the Commies and Terrorists get all their nasty, self-centered, stupid-asses, I really do.
I spit on them. They do not deserve an honest man’s protection.
i believe dempsey is the type of general who would fire on american patriots if ordered too.
We’re still in a war, as much as that fact is covered up. My brother is headed to Afghanistan after Christmas.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there are any voluntary early-outs in effect? It wouldn't surprise me...piss off the good troops, then give 'em a way to get out now. Why wait for their contracts to run out?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Cut the pay and benefits of the soldiers, and reduce the number of combat units, while buying weapons systems costing much more than comparable weapon systems; thus making the Defense Department into a ATM machine for the crony capitalists; for some examples:
The Formididible-class frigates of Singapore $350 million versus Littoral Combat Ships $700 million.
F-35A $150 million and F-35B and F-25C $200 million versus F-18/E Super Hornet $70 million.
The new Ground Combat Vehicle at twice the cost of the German Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
Why can’t this administration cuts benefits and salary to employees of other governmental departments? Why doe sit have to be the military?
To reduce costs, get rid of the females, quit accepting so many married men, and turn it into a lower paid, but more elite and focused, masculine world of warriors.
Make the young men want to go in, as warriors, to join something rare and special, that marks them for life as part of the warrior class, and quit attracting the single moms and entire families.
But now with Obama they can ‘love’ the ‘person’ of their choice in the military, and make a show of it.
That makes up for it.
I think the military is too top heavy. WWII generals had almost 10x as many men under their command. The navy has almost as many admirals as we have ships. Start from the top and pare down. Many Generals should be Cols, Cols should be Lt Cols etc. We shouldn’t touch the enlisted pay or benefits, but I think we need to rethink the way we run the whole process. I also think we need to have some rules on what retired senior military should be able to do when they leave the service. Too many boondoggles are being created due to the old boy network.
As a recently medically retired vet, the care I received during the PEB/MEB and now at the VA are disappointing and costly to all veterans.