All "untouchable" - but our nation's heroes are on the block again, and again, and again under this Administration.
No chit. They already cut our benefits. No Cost of Living Allowance for the last three years. Reason: The cost of living in the US has not gone up the last three years. I am wondering is there are two United States because the one I live in all the prices has risen ovet the last few years.
Not to mention the billions or is it trillions we have spent on foreign aid and defending nations that not only hate us but are wealthy. What have we got out of it? loss of lives of our military...now they want to cut them again? look at Kuwait...we saved their asses and when we asked them to invest in our economy they said NO...they are investing in Asia!!!!!!!!!! retirees colas have been frozen and prescriptions have gone up by 2 dollars additional on each one...btw...MEDICAID has a huge amount of fraud and some pop out one baby after another on the taxpayer dole...get foodstamps, wic, etc on top of that...at least medicare is paid into by the recipient. We have tricare and still pay 1300 a yr deductible on medicare..we dont consider it an entitlement...24 yrs and 3 tours in Korea and 2 in Nam...with the lower wages and earned pension
Yes, I’m a military retiree so I have a dawg in this.
I can see them raising the Tricare for life premiums and that saving a lot of money. That’s probably fair. None of us signed up for that benefit. Quite frankly, when I signed up, there wasn’t a monthly payment for healthcare so it was never talked about. However, they shouldn’t mess with the pay!! That was something promised to us. We did our part in fighting this countries wars, now it’s time for them to do their part. I also don’t understand how they want to do this 401k thing in the future how that will save money. When they’ll be paying this out to everyone who signs up, be it for 20 or 3 years. Unless people signing up for 3 or 4 years get practically nothing.
What did anyone collecting SSI before 65, or Medicaid or foodstamps or housing do to deserve their “benefit”? Cut there first!!! Also, if you’re going to ask us to sacrifice, how about raising your own premiums? How about cutting the benefits to the union workers in the government?
Larry Korb, quoted in the article, is a perfect example of somebody gaming the system to secure a number of federal pensions without seeing a day of combat. Larry was also one of the primary water carriers for homosexualizing the military. It’s a shame guys like this are heard from so often and yet men like Generals Krulak, Pace and Mixon are never from again.