Posted on 07/25/2013 4:31:10 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Obama administration is threatening to veto the 2014 defense authorization bill unless health care insurance premiums and co-pays are increased, Investor's Business Daily said Wednesday. The administration also wants to reduce the proposed 1.8 percent pay increase for military personnel.
According to the Army Times, the administration says the bill is "too generous with military pay" and not generous enough for civilian employees. The administration only wants to give service members a one percent raise.
"A 1.8 percent increase would keep pace [with] the average increase last year in private sector salaries, while the 1 percent raise would create a slight gap," the Army Times said. Obama's proposed increase would be the first raise in over a decade that failed to keep pace with the private sector, IBD said.
The administration has also proposed cost-cutting measures like increased Tricare health fees for military retirees.
Citing the Navy Times, IBD said Obama's proposal includes a freeze for 2014 for Medicare-eligible retirees in the Tricare for Life program.
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The 5000 Afghans he is importing this year alone will be getting their health care for FREE
go for it you bastard!
The Founding States made the Constitution’s Clause 2 of Article 7 to clarify the following. Congress can override presidential vetos with 2/3 majority consent of each House of Congress. So if Congress claims that Obama gave Congress “no choice” but to raise health care premiums for military personnel, then Congress is arguably not concerned about the best interests of the troops.
We need 2 separate countries now, more than ever. Put the RAT bastard demoRATs in the NE states and CA, OR, WA & IL. We get all the rest, since the libturd demoRATs are scared of nature & the outdoors anyway. Jam them into the cities and let the black thugs have at 'em.
Easy. He's a lawyer. First he lies on one side, then he lies on the other.
IMO and historically, you are wrong.
Truman was not hot-headed. Although he did threaten to kick a reporter who didn’t like his daughters piano playing in the balls. Truman was brilliant and down to earth, and left the White House as poor as when he went in it. Tell me another democrat who did that. He was certainly the opposite of Obama, because the buck did stop with him. He never tried to blame anyone else he took responsibility.
IMO DEMocrat or not Harry Truman was one of the greatest Presidents. There would be no Israel without Truman.
He made mistakes, everyone does, but he never blamed them on someone else.
**Our military will follow orders right over the cliff. **
Don’t
bet
on
that.
Permit me to share something I first found on Michelle Malkin’s site. It is from a humorous site called memegenerator, and they use the following photo of Obama with various quotes. This one however, deals with Obama care.
http://memegenerator.co/instance/35254504
Active Duty/Retiree Ping.
THIS politically correct bunch? Don’t hold your breath.
Hey, white negro—take some of those vaca funds you and your pet wookie have stolen and use THAT to fund this NECESSITY. You kind deserve to be tied to a tree in Florida during hurricane season.
The Great Divider strikes again. Racial division, social-economic division, citizen against citizen, civilian against military.
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