Posted on 01/15/2014 7:21:15 PM PST by SkyPilot
The feedback continues, with a bunch of military veterans and family members asking me how I could defend the callous COLA cuts to military pensions by way of explaining why Congress is trying to undo them. Another reader email:
I strenuously object to being asked to sacrifice any more! I risked my life in two deployments to war zones, sacrificed my health (I'm also a disabled veteran), and jeopardized my relationship with my family for my country. I find Congress' latest demand a kick in the gut. We veterans and retirees have sacrificed enough without having to endure the pain of COLA cuts. Congress must first reduce the COLA for all current federal retirees (including members of Congress) and Social Security recipients and demand additional sacrifices from non-military Americans. Or better yet, I'm sure there are $6 billion that could be saved by closing corporate tax loopholes, cutting farm subsidies to wealthy corporations, etc. There are at least $6 billion in waste in the defense budget alone. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will cost at least $400 billion, and it doesn't even work! But military veterans and retirees should be the last group Congress asks for more sacrifice.
If I've heard this much, I can only imagine what Republicans have been getting in their voicemails and inboxes. On The Hugh Hewitt Show yesterday, Paul Ryan was handed the hideous job of defending the cuts against a host who found them morally outrageous.
"Had Mitt and I won that election, this would not be required," said Ryan. "This would not be necessary."
Hewitt wouldn't have it. "This will destroy retention," he said. "It will destroy morale, and it is deeply unfair to the American military which has sacrificed more than anyone else."
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The stupid. It burns.
As for my attitude, it’s the opposite of yours. My attitude is about not electing idiots to rule us. As for you, look up the powers given to congress. They are DESIGNED to stop people like Obama. God what did you learn in school?
bingo!!!
Pure Kabuki theater.
Seems self evident. Some aren’t too swift I suppose. Too bad they have to revel in it.
bovine excrement
The Gop runs the House.
Where are peoples’ minds that they let the GOP be such utter, historic, Shakespearean level wimps. They are King MacBeth.
I had to listen to that wimpy Bill Bennett yesterday take on a breastfeeding housewife asking him to back off his criticism of Ted Cruz.
Bennett, hung up on her for his answer He couldn’t have won he shut down the government, it was a losing stance.
Wimps.
Remember the Ryan plan early 2011 and revived a few times like just a year ago?
He balanced the budget and reformed Medicare by just cutting some social programs that Dems love, it also cut taxes and spent more on the military while balancing the budget. It restored medicare funding from cuts too, while saving it.
And with medicare he reformed it with a plan where no-one over 55 would be affected at all, when only those over 65 get medicare. That was magic, true magic.
Man this place went ga-ga over that.
He was the conservative boy wonder budget guru, on Rush, on Hannity, on Levin, praised by them all. He was magic.
How could this happen?
DUHHH! Fools follow false heroes off a cliff every time.,
“So you are not now and never were in the category of having voted for a candidate that could conceivably have beaten Obama. Which makes your claim devoid of substance.”
That’s funny from someone who effectively voted for Obama. How do you like your handiwork, hmmmm? Happy now?
two decent men who didn’t fit their virginity test
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Oh its worse than that dearie...
I don’t know about Ryan but your boy Willard has been working at the world’s oldest profession his whole adult life...
Exactly right!
Romney is far too leftist for me, and the fact that he was lying to my face about his views doesn’t help matters.
Even if you support “moderate” candidates how would you trust the guy who is pretending to be a conservative? “He’s lying, so I can still vote for him”... I mean, why would you knowingly vote for a bald-faced liar??
I could not pull the level for a liberal liar like Romney, he did not deserve my vote. He did not earn my vote. He did not get it.
Those who did not vote for Romney are Obama supporters.
Ridiculous RINO empowerment.
“This is about a contract, and breaking the contract”
Governments are not bound by contracts. When will people start understanding that simple fact? Never, apparently.
For years the 80% rule was in play. Where do you suppose Romney hit on that scale.
Of course his single digit is lost on the true believers. They can name what exactly that he did they support while Gov?
Yet we were supposed to believe he would magically be better than the man his record mirrors.
Can’t fix stupid.
“God what did you learn in school?”
Not to associate with those who establish purity tests while choosing the least pure to rule over us.
So what you are saying is that even with a big HOUSE majority the GOPe are wimpy losers and should not even try to stop Obama and the Democrats?
Then why should we vote for them?
Yep
What is surprising is how many on FR were so willing to do so, my real question has now become “what has happened to FR”
The opposite of purity is corruption. Save your purist crap. 80& is far from purist.
“My attitude is about not electing idiots to rule us.”
You did elect an idiot to rule us. Obama. Nice work.
They did not support Clinton, that’s the point. Veterans got behind Romney as the GOP foisted him on all of us.
They’re not going to fall for it again, I can say that. Not one of them is happy for supporting Ryan, and they are not happy with the GOP right now.
so, what’s your point?
Romney pushed and way outspent every candidate on the stage relentlessly.
He was brutal. And cowardly.
And he was a typical GOP, bully your constituents and cower like an amoral beggar ushering the democrat into office, and out of any criminal charges.
whatever your point is, I’m not interested.
Insane.
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