Posted on 09/06/2015 9:59:29 PM PDT by Nachum
As most Americans are unaware, by federal law those serving in the nation's military are suppose to receive a yearly pay raise in accordance with a formula utilized by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The House of Representatives traditionally uses whatever figure the BLS sends them to factor into any given Fiscal Year Budget to be sent to the Commander-in-Chief. But Barack Obama has again decided to use an emergency loophole in the US Code to keep the formulated pay raise from the troops.
Yet as reported by the Alabama Media Group (The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, the Mobile Press-Register) on Aug. 31, 2015, members of the Armed Forces will see a barely visible 1.3 percent increase in their proverbial pay envelopes starting New Year's Day. But as reported by the Heritage Foundation on Aug. 7, 2015, those in the service were initially slated to receive a 2.3 percent hike in pay.
With the Family Obama still shaking the sand out of their shoes from yet another taxpayer subsidized Cape Cod vacation, Obama used the Chief Executive's "economic emergency" provision to bypass the BLS formula, the House of Representatives, and Title 5 U.S.C., sections 5303(b) and 5304 (a) to cut military pay. Citing multiple sources here, Obama used the same excuse to slash the legally mandated pay raises from Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015.
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“...yet funds untold numbers of Somali and Syrian muzzie-trash immigrants into the USofA, as well as countless disease-ridden, vermin infested illegal alien invaders across our southern border and I ask why hasn’t this lawless, unConstitutional dirtbag been
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Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
* been impeached?
Active Duty ping.
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To think of all the funds going to illegals and welfare queens and congress and the 0’s billions in clothing, and letting our Military do with out sufficient pay is a BIG CRIME and a DIRTY SHAME. This is not just the DemonRats but the gope too. Not just the RINOS either. Just greedy politicians.
And the taxes will take HALF that 1.3 percent pay raise. Military should not have to pay income taxes. Just Medicare.
Military use to have a perfectly good system for those type, GET RID OF THEM.
I’ve seen officers so far. Not so much enlisted but enlisted has less power.
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