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Obama threatens defense veto if health care premiums for military not increased
Examiner ^ | July 24, 2013 | Joe Newby

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abortion; benghazi; deathpanels; defense; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; militaryhealthcare; obama; obamacare; tricare; zerocare
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To: Red Steel

The 5000 Afghans he is importing this year alone will be getting their health care for FREE


41 posted on 07/25/2013 5:39:52 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: JoanneSD
It will take another Ronald Reagan to fix the military back right. He did more for our troops than any other post WW2 POTUS. What he helped to restore both the DEM and GOP POTUS as well as both parties in congress since 1989 have made every effort possible to destroy. I say end the Presidential and Congressional Retirement Programs before one more cent of burden is placed on our military.
42 posted on 07/25/2013 5:44:39 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Red Steel

go for it you bastard!


43 posted on 07/25/2013 5:46:49 PM PDT by ldish (The Impeachment process should be already be well underway...but trust me it will never be started!)
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To: Red Steel; All

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.


44 posted on 07/25/2013 5:48:54 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Venturer
And Truman was a liberal, hot-headed democRAT! Can you imagine what the reaction would be like if ANY Republican president at ANY time would have done this and then withheld servicing the plane. RAT bastard demturds have been getting away with sh_t like this since that party was formed.

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.

45 posted on 07/25/2013 6:05:03 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: MomofMarine
How does he sleep at night?

Easy. He's a lawyer. First he lies on one side, then he lies on the other.

46 posted on 07/25/2013 6:14:48 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: rcrngroup

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.


47 posted on 07/25/2013 6:15:07 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: txrefugee

**Our military will follow orders right over the cliff. **

Don’t

bet

on

that.


48 posted on 07/25/2013 6:26:42 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Red Steel

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


49 posted on 07/25/2013 7:21:34 PM PDT by stisidore
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To: Red Steel; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty/Retiree Ping.


50 posted on 07/25/2013 7:28:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: SCHROLL

THIS politically correct bunch? Don’t hold your breath.


51 posted on 07/25/2013 7:44:19 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: originalbuckeye

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.


52 posted on 07/25/2013 10:28:44 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: Jet Jaguar

The Great Divider strikes again. Racial division, social-economic division, citizen against citizen, civilian against military.


53 posted on 07/26/2013 7:16:11 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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