[xzins]

These people knew they were punitively targeting veterans for cuts relative to the rest of the federal workforce. Nonetheless, they supported the December deal. Now they are using the omnibus to reinstate that funding, forcing members who never backed the deal in the first place to vote for the behemoth or be seen as opposing pension funding for disabled veterans. Of course, nobody has the courage to reinstate the pension spending by eliminating refundable tax credits for illegal aliens.

The republican establishment is full of cowards and haters of the military. Restoring funding to "disabled" vets doesn't really even do that....only to those medically retired from the military.

It gives the appearance of standing against those who stole veterans' money in the first place, but it doesn't restore that money at all. Don't be deceived.

And, like this article says, that "disabled veterans" wording is a cynical tool being used to force our representatives to vote for a 1500 page law that they haven't even read.

Paul Ryan is stealing 600 million a year promised to those who would go to war and giving it to deadbeats instead. The Wall Street Journal says that the government spent 2.2 billion last year alone on ObamaPhones. Does Miss Thang deserve her welfare free phone 3 times more than a wartime veteran does the deferred payment that you promised? Hell no. Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and John Boehner sell-outs. It's that simple. They aren't worth one minute of the air it takes to keep one single veteran breathing.

[blueunicorn6]

Retired Veterans suffered, sacrificed and risked for their country only to see their money used to buy Democrat votes.

[Cyber Liberty]

Paul Ryan strikes again. The GOPe is a gift that keeps on giving (to the liberals).

[SkyPilot]

The projected Federal spending for the next ten years is a conservative $15 Trillion (I believe it will be much higher than that).

The cuts to military pensions COLAs "saves" at total $6 Billion over those entire ten years.

We are hundredths of decimal points here in "savings."

I have gone over this in my head a thousand times - "Why are they doing this?"

The only answer I can come up with is that they want to use this camel's nose under the tent to completely decimate military pay, pensions, benefits, and health care in the very near future.

As Hugh Hewitt told Paul Ryan yesterday, they could have thrown out and fixed this pension debacle in 5 minutes by inserting language into the 1,500 pages of the Appropriations bill. Paul Ryan flat out refused to do so, and said they had "a couple of years to study the issue and possibly re-look at it."

It is the military families that I feel sorry for the most.

Betrayal cuts the heart deepest.