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CNN: Panetta to Recommend Pay Cut For Military
CNN ^ | Wednesday, February 6, 2013 | Barbara Starr

Posted on 02/06/2013 9:37:42 AM PST by kristinn

Just days before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is recommending military pay be limited, effectively decreasing troop salaries next year.

Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1% increase in 2014. The Pentagon has calculated that the Labor Department's 2014 Employment Cost Index is expected to be above 1% but wants to still cut back on pay because of "budget uncertainties," a department official told CNN. In 2013, a 1.7% increase was approved, based on the index, which has been the basis for military pay for the last several years.

Three Pentagon officials have confirmed details of the plan to CNN. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have also agreed to Panetta's proposed pay plan. Final approval for the pay would come from Congress in the form of the 2014 budget.

The recommendation is tied to the Defense Department's 2014 budget recommendation, which was expected to be sent to Congress this month, one of the officials said. But the officials acknowledge it is going to be seen as an effort to push Congress to stop the automatic budget cuts that could go into effect if no deal is reached on spending reductions.

(Excerpt) Read more at security.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 113th; bhosecdef; defensespending; hasan2; leonpanetta; panetta; usmilitary
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To: cherry

Numbers. There are more active duty. I’m only talking Dept Of Defense fed employees. The civilians pay have been frozen for a while now. You only get step increases if elegible. Mil retirement pay have been frozen too. They claim it’s because the cost of living have not increased the last three years. No idea what drugs they are smoking.

I think last year there was a retiree pay increase but medical costs went up so it was a net zero.

I’m kinda happy because I know a few who voted for this.


21 posted on 02/06/2013 10:04:22 AM PST by USAF80
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To: kristinn

The government found something they want to cut! Shocker that it is this.


22 posted on 02/06/2013 10:05:43 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Jaxter
"But the "man" that ordered him to do this is a way bigger coward."

And furthermore:



He is the Spawn of Satan!



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

23 posted on 02/06/2013 10:06:55 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: kristinn
The NOW hags should be squealing!

The pay 'cuts' just happen to coincide with women getting combat status.

The glass ceiling rears its ugly head again!

24 posted on 02/06/2013 10:09:26 AM PST by JOAT
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To: kristinn
Call your representatives! Call the WH!! Call the MSM!! We demand our troops, our police, our firemen, our teachers be paid!!! Put pressure on the Old White Man's Party so they'll cave in even more to the Dems need for more (new)taxes!! /sarc

What does Panetta have to lose politically for this timely scare tactic? Dear Leader will just blame the rich (while continuing to screw over the middle class). Win-Win.

25 posted on 02/06/2013 10:09:44 AM PST by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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To: ConorMacNessa
The military is our country's flesh and blood treasure .... willing to give their LIVES to protect us ... they and their families pay the highest price and then they get treated in such a shabby, shameful manner. The country should rise up and demand better for them.
26 posted on 02/06/2013 10:11:54 AM PST by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: kristinn

Should not be cutting military pay. Should be a Constitutional Amendment limiting Congressional raises to 1% per year. You know, perhaps all of us should hold an annual vote for their raise?


27 posted on 02/06/2013 10:14:09 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: kristinn

This will free up more money to pay that $50,000 to those imaginary pig farmers who don’t know the front end from the back end of a hog. They need more money to buy votes.


28 posted on 02/06/2013 10:15:17 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: kristinn

“during a war”

Okay, but this war, or these wars, are more “wars” than actual wars. They could go on for generations like the “cold war.”


29 posted on 02/06/2013 10:16:05 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: kristinn
Iran announces today that it is fully nuclear.

What's our response? Cut the muscle and feed the fat.

30 posted on 02/06/2013 10:16:40 AM PST by BigFinn (bigHat wisdom: Always drink upstream from the herd.)
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To: kristinn

Executive and Legislative Branches first.

Limit AF-1 flights as well


31 posted on 02/06/2013 10:18:04 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: laweeks

“My God, is there no end to what these ba$tards will do to our military, our families, our country, and our homes? Is there no end?”

There is.

It will come when they have
- dismantled the military
- broken up your families
- taken possession of your homes, and
- destroyed the country.


32 posted on 02/06/2013 10:22:21 AM PST by Road Glide
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To: laweeks

Calm down a bit, there. Nobody raped your mother. This is one of those gubmint “cuts,” whereby it goes up, just not as much as previously planned. It’s a bit silly to get all up in arms about, considering: a). we’re broke, and b). they’re so far away from being paid a market wage that anywhere we set it is arbitrary.


33 posted on 02/06/2013 10:22:46 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: kristinn

What has been the average raise in the private sector?

In many areas, a 1% is typical.


34 posted on 02/06/2013 10:24:53 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: cherry

“why in the world would they consider cutting military pay and not fed employee pay pay?”

Votes. Military employees are fewer than federal employees in general.

By the way, when you hear military pay you think of Johnny what got his gun, but it’s probably one out of a hundred or some ridiculous figure that are actually in harm’s way. Most of them are bureaucrats or humps just like everywhere else.


35 posted on 02/06/2013 10:29:06 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: kristinn

Panetta isn’t recommending anything. It’s the traitor in chief that is doing it. Panetta is just his little minion.

Both are cowards of the worst sort.


36 posted on 02/06/2013 10:30:40 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Conserev1

I don’t know about the prez, but I think it’s illegal to cut Congress’ pay in the middle of the game, and that’s because of how we wrote the law intended to forestall pay hikes.


37 posted on 02/06/2013 10:31:11 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: kristinn

Why not recommend a pay cut for the House and the Senate?

And the C-i-C?


38 posted on 02/06/2013 10:36:48 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: kristinn

Only in Washington is a 1% increase in pay, a pay cut...


39 posted on 02/06/2013 10:37:40 AM PST by green iguana
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To: kristinn
comment self deleted to save the mods the trouble
40 posted on 02/06/2013 10:40:40 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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