[2ndDivisionVet]

There are Obamaites in the military and amongst veterans, too, sadly. Not every veteran is a conservative. Oliver Stone was in Vietnam.

[CitizenUSA]

I agree the country needs to roll back quite a bit of spending, but as you wrote, it's a matter of priorities. Military pensions and health benefits are earned. They aren't given to someone, like welfare, simply for being born or having children. As you well know, you have to sacrifice your freedom in order to fight for freedom, obeying the orders of those appointed over you and complying with all the additional rules and regulations of military service that are not expected of civilians. When they call you in the middle of the night and tell you to be on a plane to some third world hell hole in 4 hours, you go. So, yes. We need cutbacks, and I'm not even opposed to increases in Tricare fees. However, there's a whole lot of cutting that should be done first before we start asking on military members to shoulder more. That's pretty much the issue here. It's not so much that fees need to be increased. It's about the military being the #1 target for cuts while the crony capitalists, favored unions, and dependency classes apparently continue to get a free ride!

[OafOfOffice]

I was thinking he was a union plant for Obama. Then I wondered if it would affect only new military and not the present retired.

My husband is military but not retired military so it won’t affect us. We have private HC insurance Obama is destroying that as we speak.

The agenda is we all will be under Obama government control in the end.

[OafOfOffice]

Oliver Stone was in Vietnam. My husband just said as I read that to him, "don't we know that. He (Oliver Stone) wants everyone to believe the move 'Platoon'was the way everyone was in Viet Nam."