You are wrong.
We do have the money to pay the promises made to our military retirees.
The govt. would rather spend it on junkies, communists, sluts and bums.
That is a fact.
“You are wrong.”
The numbers - deficits, debt don’t agree with you.
Overall employment trend numbers, forecasts for future business performance don’t agree with you.
Trends in government - programs, entitlements, and the appetite for more of the voters don’t agree with you.
We still have money coming in - but the likelihood that it will be set aside for the military is not very high - and the impact of debt and deficits does not spell “solvent”.
The government wastes a lot money, so does the military - that is a travesty, given the state of finances of the people who pay for it all - but it is, for now, a fact of life.
What is correct is that the government has wagered that it can cut military benefits now as a political tool so that the illusion of solvency and the illusion of austerity is communicated and reinforced to the American people. It doesn’t change the truth though, We are broke, we don’t have the money to pay everyone everything someone in government “promised” them.