Posted on 11/29/2010 7:29:22 PM PST by GailA
The second-ranking House Democrat said Monday that President Obama’s move to freeze the pay of civilian federal employees should also be extended to military personnel.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said including the military would have increased savings and add “an element of fairness." He made the comments in a statement about he president’s announcement of a two-year pay freeze.
“While I appreciate that the president reduced the length of his proposed pay freeze from three to two years,” Hoyer said in a statement, “it would have produced significantly more savings had that sacrifice been shared between federal civilian and military personnel — with a strong exception for the members of our military and civilian employees risking their lives on our behalf in Afghanistan, Iraq, and anywhere else they are serving in harm's way.”
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Give me a freaking break! how dare he even compare the military with federal workers.
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....
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Panel calls for 3-year freeze on military pay
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.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
What “military benefits” don’t you agree with?
Name’um please in order of your priority.
They deserve all they are getting and more.
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.
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!
Thanks GailA.
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Our Military is UNDER attack by these socialists.
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.
Words fail me
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.
How about the Congress stops putting earmarks in the Defense Department budget - earmartks for non-defense items.
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.
Dear Steny;
Eat me!
Strongly worded message follows.
MB26
So far, I've been in the military for 14 years. I have yet to see benefits which are out of hand.
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