Posted on 09/17/2014 12:12:07 PM PDT by pabianice
September 5, 2014
On August 29, President Obama sent a letter notifying Congress that he is using his authority under law to cap the active duty military pay raise at 1 percent in 2015.
Typically the active duty pay raise is determined by private sector wage growth, measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Cost Index (ECI). The ECI calls for a 1.8 percent pay raise in 2015.
However, the President has executive authority to make an alternative pay adjustment if he considers it necessary due to national emergency or economic concerns.
This is the second consecutive year the President used his authority to implement a lower pay raise.
From 2000 to 2012, Congress worked hard to eliminate a 13.5 percent military pay gap with the private sector caused by repeatedly capping military raises in the 1980s and ‘90s.
But the restoration of military pay comparability with the private sector is under threat. Pay has been capped for two years, and the administration’s FY 2015 budget proposes to continue caps for a total of six years.
Earlier this year, the House rejected the administration’s pay cap and authorized a 1.8 percent raise in its version of the FY 2015 defense authorization bill and appropriated funding to pay for it. The Senate Armed Services Committee supported the administration’s 1.0 percent cap.
To reverse the President’s decision to cap pay in 2015, Congress would need to override the President’s authority to alter the pay raise from the ECI.
MOAA President Vice Adm. Norb Ryan, USN (Ret) responded to the President’s announcement, saying “Pay raises for the military, just like those of average Americans, are important for retention. It’s a fundamental principle of sustaining the all-volunteer force… History has shown that once Congress starts accepting proposals to cap military pay below private sector growth, those caps continue until retention and readiness are compromised.”
Comparability can’t work unless it’s sustained through both good and bad budget times.
- See more at: http://www.moaa.org/Main_Menu/Take_Action/Top_Issues/Serving_in_Uniform/Compensation/President_Caps_Military_Pay.html#sthash.7vm9vBgi.dpuf
But he has time to advocate for McDonald’s folks to get $15 an hour.
In Obamaland money cannot be wasted on paying our military when it is needed to provide free everything to moochers and illegals.
I guess they won’t get hazard pay for ebola exposure either.
Yet, payments to welfare recipients have increased over 30% under his administration. Since when is it a “right” in this country to have a free cell phone from the gov’t? This jerk needs to be impeached...we can’t afford to keep him in office.
Meanwhile:
US to send 3,000 troops to Ebola danger zone as Obama admin shuffles military’s mission in Africa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204440/posts
The turkey needs the money to increase benefits for his social welfare programs
I didn’t listen to his speech at MacDill AFB earlier today (not sure why he was there - probably had a fund raiser nearby and could use the stop at MacDill to write off the AF1 expense), but I suspect he didn’t include anything related to the article you posted in his speech.
His speech should have been something to the effect of:
1. No boots on the ground in Iraq, instead I’ll put 3K boots on the ground in Africa and subject them to a deadly disease.
2. No increase for the military, but $15/hour for hamburger flippers, because they put their lives on the line every day with the hot grease.
Apologies if I’m a bit incoherent/rambling, I’m so ticked right now as an Air Force brat to a lifer AF serviceman.
Meanwhile, bonuses are being handed out at the IRS and EPA.
This despicable creep is abusing our military. He and his henchmen are trying to destroy it by sending it on fool’s errands such as fighting Ebola in Africa.
Meanwhile, back at the refugee camp formerly known as America, we don’t have the money to deport illegal alien invaders back home to Mexico but Mexico can airlift “THOUSANDS” of tourists out of Cabo. That’s some weird sh*t, man. It’s a wacky world out there.
Obola ware strategy:
The reason we’re so dangerous is because we’re totally harmless.
Cheech Marin
ware= war
The spread of the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 is thought to be caused by soldiers incubating it, and the virus mutated. They spread it unknowingly...
"The close quarters and massive troop movements of World War I hastened the pandemic and probably both increased transmission and augmented mutation; the war may also have increased the lethality of the virus."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
How can this be???? All lies I tell you!!! Clown Prince nobama and his racist grifter wife, mooch-elle, have reassured us many times that they love the military.
What has been the history of military pay increases over the last 20 or 30 years?
Is there a chart that shows the percent increase in military pay over those years?
Never mind to Liberia to ‘fight’ ebola!
Just like carter did to us in the 70’s.
Bet his Golf and Moo-Chelles vacation $$$ didn’t get c apped.
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