Obama Gives Military 1 Percent Pay Raise

free beacon ^ | 12/22/14 | Adam Kredo

[Nachum]

A majority of U.S. military service members will receive a 1 percent pay raise in their basic pay beginning in January 2015, the Pentagon announced on Monday.

However, those enlisted members further down the military totem poll will see no pay raise, according to the announcement.

“Basic pay for service members will increase one percent, except for general and flag officers who will not see an increase in 2015,” the Pentagon announced.

This means that an Army member with the rank of corporal or specialist will receive an additional $22.20 per month, while those service members with the rank of captain will get a pay increase of around $54.30 per month.

This amounts to an overall increase of around one percent for most service members.

A service member’s housing allowance will increase “on average $17 per month, or 0.5 percent,” according to the Pentagon.

The Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rate will undergo changes in 2015.

Renter’s insurance, for example, has been eliminated.

[LeoWindhorse]

and they let him use their gym?

I cannot imagine why .

[skinkinthegrass]

I think the salary of congress critters
should equal the salary of E1.absolutely NOT, pay them nothing!...
their pay, should be based, on the amount of Cutting/
Decreasing the (**Bloated) Federal Bureaucracy.
5,000$ (plus)/pay for cutting every 10$ mil. Federal $$$$/Bureaucracy outlays
5,000,000$ (deduction)/pay for increasing 5$ mil. Federal $$$$/Bureaucracy outlays
..also forbids them using CRs / Baseline budgeting and from taking lobbying (Public/
Private/NGOs) jobs in Wdc and "encourage" them to go HOME! after defeats/limits.
Then limit the amount of the (share of) Federal $$$$ in the NGDP
(10% best/13% good/15% least) and Repeal 16th/17th Fed. Adm'ts
Max. 12 years in Congress to limit CongressCritters' "entrenched" powers
after that, then 03 Pay; Make 'em live BOQs/cafeteria food like the 03 are Req'd

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[Shimmer1]

I’ve never thought of this before, but I wonder if they ever went to Hawaii for Christmas before when he was president, you know, when he had to pay for it himself....yeah, I thought not.

[cva66snipe]

What is the percentage increase he would like in the minimum wage and he gives people who risk their lives defending the country 1%

This one fall squarely on the shoulders of the leadership of both parties in Congress. Obama is CIC but Congress sets the pay and other compensation rates. They also say how many active duty and reserves we have.

[Tucker39]

That’s HIS version of the one finger salute to the Military, WHILE he is living large in Hawaii.....again!

[X Fretensis]

Obama did not do this. The Congress of the United States is the governmental body that wrote and submitted the budget with a 1% pay hike. If this is destruction of the military, then the House and the Senate are coequal perpetrators.

[Gaffer]

Yes, but look at what Boehner got for it.......Tenfold increase in amounts that big GOP donors can give to the GOP......

This is battle money. Money to crush those pesky conservatives they hate.

[SkyPilot]

This means that an Army member with the rank of corporal or specialist will receive an additional $22.20 per month, while those service members with the rank of captain will get a pay increase of around $54.30 per month.

Don't spend it all in one place.

Meanwhile, 49 million EBT Food Stamp takers, cost us in excess of $6.6 Billion per month.

The average "benefit" is $134 per month, and when you figure in that many welfare households have multiple people getting their "swipe" cards, the total is hundreds, per month. This is on top of TANF cash, EITC cash, Section 8 housing, Low Income Energy Assistance, Medicaid, ObamaCare subsidies, General Cash Assistance, Assets for Independence, Consolidated Community Health benefits, Maternal and Child Health Assistance, Woman Infants and Children's Program, Social Security for Refugees, Social Security for Humanitarian Cases, Social Security for Asylum, and ObamaPhones.

I bet if the media did any research, they would find that the mother of the man who just murdered two NYC cops in cold blood is a welfare leach - just the kind of woman Obama has gone out of his way to fund with Trillions.

We all know where Barry's priorities lie, and it isn't with military families.

[SkyPilot]

This screw job was a bipartisan effort.

That's true. The Republicans have been cheering cuts to the military for years now. It was the only agency that Obama was "willing" to gut, and the GOP wanted any spending cuts they could get - so they screwed over the military and their families.

Wait until February, when some vaunted "Commission" comes out with "recommendations" to gut military pay, retirement, healthcare, and to destroy the military retirement system.

[jch10]

Mine voted the same way yours did but expects people to be too dumb to see what he did. And, he’s right. They are.

I called and told his staff what I thought about it....like I always do. It makes no difference. I am getting despondent about politics.

[GreyFriar]

Just think how much could be saved if all in the military were paid the minimum wage! (sarcasm that liberals will want to make the truth)

[TheOldLady]

Outrage after outrage after outrage, following lie after lie after lie.

This man will pay, not on this Earth though, but he will pay.

[Karliner]

HEY HEY LIVING LARGE BABY.... I would say something slanderous but shall refrain...sad.

[Karliner]

Will all those Obola game pink slips to while in a combat zone get this raise before das boot?

[NELSON111]

That’s HIS version of the one finger salute to the Military

Yes and no. I'm sure this met his approval....but the 1% was the recommendation of those wonderful generals who are supposed to be looking out for their people...and was approved by both parties.

EVERYONE lined up to screw us on this one...

[Karliner]

Remove all ROE’s and make payment based on killing islam per dozen!!...Quotas baby,Where’s that Pass the Ammunition song?

[bayouranger]

They let it happen.