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Hoyer: Military should also see pay freeze
The Hill ^ | 11/29/10 | Russell Bermann

Posted on 11/29/2010 7:29:22 PM PST by GailA

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1 posted on 11/29/2010 7:29:27 PM PST by GailA
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Give me a freaking break! how dare he even compare the military with federal workers.


2 posted on 11/29/2010 7:31:15 PM PST by Ballygrl
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while I probably agree that military spending and benefits are way out of hand, isnt’ it odd or telling that Hoyer would wait til after the election to bring this up....


3 posted on 11/29/2010 7:33:21 PM PST by cherry
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To: GailA; Traveler59; Nachum; submarinerswife; katiedidit1; GOP_Harley_Guy; Jim Robinson

THIS FIRST ARTICLE IS COPYRIGHT BANNED for posting!

Panel calls for 3-year freeze on military pay

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/11/military-debt-commission-recommendations-111010w/?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4ce34e2da0c73365,0

Debt Panels Target Military Retirement
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2634670/posts

Bambi is saying one thing, Hoyer is saying another. Neither is to be believed or trusted. Our Military is UNDER paid as it is.


4 posted on 11/29/2010 7:34:25 PM PST by GailA (NO JESUS, NO CHRISTmas!)
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To: GailA
I have the ill fortune to be one of this loathsome POS swine's constituents. Get with it Hoyer - the person who signs up with the military writes a blank check to the USA - secured by his or her life. A better idea: Roll back the exorbitant salaries paid to Congresspeople and Federal Judges, none of whom are subject to the proposed freeze.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
6 posted on 11/29/2010 7:36:52 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: cherry

What “military benefits” don’t you agree with?
Name’um please in order of your priority.


7 posted on 11/29/2010 7:37:25 PM PST by TaMoDee
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To: GailA
{expletive} - NO!

They deserve all they are getting and more.

8 posted on 11/29/2010 7:38:05 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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PENTAGON CONSIDERS HEALTHCARE FEE INCREASE FOR MILITARY... DEVELOPING...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2634150/posts

This is the article Drudge is siting.
Gates Seeking to Contain Miltary Health Cost (TRICARE)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/us/29tricare.html

There are MORE links in the FR thread.


9 posted on 11/29/2010 7:39:25 PM PST by GailA (NO JESUS, NO CHRISTmas!)
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To: Ballygrl
Hoyer is a Democrat. He has expenses to be covered ~ or rather ~ he needs to cover up some expenses ~ like maybe some serious Cost Over Runs at General Motors.

We'll find out in January won't we.

In the meantime all you people clamoring for cutting federal employee pay were sounding very disingenuous when you kept exempting the military. Those Democrats don't see the difference; don't want to imagine there's a difference; and to be "fair" they'd like to emasculate the military and reduce the soldiery to penury ~ to be poetic about it.

That's like it used to be and they want to return to that.

You helped them get to that point!

10 posted on 11/29/2010 7:43:11 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks GailA.


11 posted on 11/29/2010 7:43:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: GailA
Bambi is saying one thing, Hoyer is saying another. Neither is to be believed or trusted. Our Military is UNDER paid as it is.

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Our Military is UNDER attack by these socialists.

shovel ready-1sm

12 posted on 11/29/2010 7:44:37 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: ConorMacNessa
The members of Congress receive compensation that cannot be changed until after the next election. It's in a recent amendment to the Constitution ~ first proposed as part of the Bill of Rights.

The federal judges can not have their compensation diminished. That too is in the Constitution ~ put there by the Founders.

No doubt they were in error.

13 posted on 11/29/2010 7:45:28 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: GailA

Words fail me


14 posted on 11/29/2010 7:45:28 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I totally agree. Only the Top Brass make the big bucks, if you can call working for below civilian wages big bucks. Mid ranks and lower are the ones that will really hurt...food stamps, families in tent cities. Go back to living conditions under slick willie and carter.

They are going after Navy Chiefs E7-9...attrition..to many of them..and I suspect it applies to the other branches also. That tidbit that Chiefs were in the cross hairs was on the front of the Navy Times last week when I went to the Commissary.

As you can see from the other links I posted it’s not just a pay freeze they are going after but their health care too.

Senior Chief (Ret.) wife.


15 posted on 11/29/2010 7:46:00 PM PST by GailA (NO JESUS, NO CHRISTmas!)
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16 posted on 11/29/2010 7:46:09 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: GailA

How about the Congress stops putting earmarks in the Defense Department budget - earmartks for non-defense items.


17 posted on 11/29/2010 7:46:58 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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To: Ballygrl
"Give me a freaking break! how dare he even compare the military with federal workers.'

Union workers to boot.

Are there some federal civilian employees in Afghanistan and Iraq? Sure. But they are an absolutely minuscule, microscopic percentage of the entire federal civilian workforce. Moreover, they could be (and are) compensated on an adhoc basis when in harm's way. But, the sacrifice of our uniformed service members is unbelievably more comprehensive even when not in a combat zone, compared to the "sacrifice" of their prima dona civilian colleagues.

18 posted on 11/29/2010 7:49:14 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: GailA

Dear Steny;

Eat me!

Strongly worded message follows.

MB26


19 posted on 11/29/2010 7:50:24 PM PST by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: cherry
while I probably agree that military spending and benefits are way out of hand

So far, I've been in the military for 14 years. I have yet to see benefits which are out of hand.

20 posted on 11/29/2010 7:54:12 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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