This is about a contract, and breaking the contract. The government signs a contract guaranteeing these active duty certain money that they count on. They are taking that promise back. They are, and according to Hugh Hewitt, a Harvard educated, practicing lawyer, breaking that contract, an act that no corporation would do without losing the law suit.
There are many things in life that outrage us, everyday. But for the life of me, I simply cannot understand why Paul Ryan and the rest of Washington seems to take such delight in pulling out the rug from disabled military veterans.
1. Not only did Paul Ryan make the "mistake" of including disabled military while jamming through his December budget deal, he said it would be "fixed"
2. He went on Hugh Hewitt yesterday and bragged that he was voting for the $1.1 Trillion monstrosity that included screwing our military out of their full promised pensions because it "helps our disabled veterans"
3. We now found out that this is untrue - tens of thousands of disabled veterans and retired are NOT covered, because those who had completed their length of service contracts and were then injured or fought to have their disability investigated by the Veterans Administration (and won) are not exempt from the "fixed" law
I have seen many betrayals from Washington in my many years, but this is perhaps the worst I have ever seen.
Thank you for reiterating the point.
This bill takes away promised distribution of survivor benifits as well.
Survivor benifits are purchased by the military guy. They purchase a plan, which provides for their spouse after the military guy dies.
When a military guy dies, salary and retirement stops, and so fast it would curl your hair.
This provides like a thousnd dollars a month. It’s an insurance policy bought, signed, documented.
What if an IRA fund, which promised under contract, a deal, just changed the deal reducing a fixed interest rate?
Its like if a mortgage company increased a fixed interest rate just on certain people but the most vulnerable, and the most needy and the most deserving?
That’s what this is.
While people are buying all kinds of ridiculous things with food stamps, Medicare and giving federal benifits to illegal immigrants, Paul Ryan’s congressionally approved plan illegally takes money away from vets future widows, because they can.
It is the lowest thing I have ever seen done.
I guarantee, these trusting folks have no idea what was just taken from them.
The military is being robbed.
Their spouses are, in effect, paying for the wars, which, according to Ryan, is what this plan is designed to do.
Obama is a very bad president, but this should illustrate what team Romney, I opposed in congress, would be doing to us