Felt a need to post this due to the recent deaths of our troops in Afghanistan, the long tours and many wars being fought by America’s finest. God bless our troops and I am saddened that their benefits will be slashed. I for one am forever grateful for their sacrifices.
The product of the McConnell/Boehner super committee crap.
It looks obvious that some veterans voted the Obama way. Obama would not have gotten close if they hadn’t.
Destruction of the military is part and parcel of the whole effort to destroy the nation.
As Lenin taught the world, you have to have a revolution before you can fully institute communism - frustrated hater Hussein’s ultimate goal.
Maybe that was their goal?
Military pay and benefits just cannot continue as they are right now, but that doesn’t mean that military personnel need to get shafted in the deal. But there are some common sense changes that need to be made.
1) To start with, retirement after 20 years is nonsense. Though it is reasonable to limit military service to 20 years, there should be a direct employment conduit into federal service at the same pay grade. No more “double dipping”, however.
This can be called “lateral transfer.”
Assuming they left the military at age 40, they can still log in 25 more years in federal service before retirement.
2) Disabled veterans should still get all benefits, but in most cases through mainstream medical care, not VA, most of which was a boondoggle from the start. Granted, there still needs to be a VA, but as specialized care for veterans that would not easily be found in the mainstream and is tailored for them.
3) The US military is too expensive to use for many low intensity missions. For this reason, the US needs to contract with an offshore mercenary organization to provide boots on the ground. Likely based in the Caribbean, they could recruit from around the world, and their equipment, transport and logistics would be handled by the US military.
Instead of costing billions of dollars, using them would cost in the tens of millions. Their contracts would be strictly voluntary, however, to prevent unscrupulous US politicians using them as cannon fodder.
This would preserve the US military for critical missions.
Do you have to excerpt this?
My nephew, who had planned to retire after 20 years, just informed his dad (my brother) that he is now planning on getting out as soon as he can. The reason: he can’t stand seeing any more Marines holding hands. He only made it about half way to his 20 years. Very sad. He’s a good Marine. We’re very proud of him, he’s accomplished a lot.
Has anybody else noticed that under Obama, in time of war, pay for civilan government federal bureaucrats has gone up twice as fast as pay for thee troops?
Obama believes with all his heart that Bureaucracy is what America needs above all else. He’s actually that stupid.
As the military approaches it’s 50% female goal, including Generals and Admirals, and as they retire and become Democrat politicians, it will become the ultimate government squeaky wheel, and the pay, the benefits, the cost, and so on will become fantastic.
10 to 20 years from now we will not recognize it.
There will be plenty of volunteers looking for the gay sex.
I’ll help the VFW and the American Legion when they stop inviting the anti miltary and anti-American Obama to speak at their conventions.
Thousands of vets at these events need to stand up and turn their back to a “leader” who apologizes to the murderers of American military personnel.
Now they want to get political??? Now they want to get involved?? I have been BEGGING the VFW to just get involved, and have a look at what is really going on with this administration and it’s attitude towards our men and women in uniform..But it’s always the same...they look up from their beer and tell me we don’t get involved with politics!...
Sorry folks this gets me mad when they have this much people and clout and do nothing but watch our country dissolve from within...EXAMPLE: Recent contraception issue is really an attack/over reach, to weaken the constitution...Who defends the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic?....But yet nothing but chirping sounds from the VFW on this issue...
Along with the draft, they will use the same justification for mandatory service in a "civilian" service corp, the justification of which will be further supported by the numbers to young people who will file for conscientious objection. "Okay, don't want to serve in a military force, here is your alternative form of service . . . mandatory."
This will all be supported by the radical feminists who will insist on the conscription of females along with males. The purpose for this where the Marxists are concerned is to further destroy the family, get women out of their homes (especially aiming at traditional Christian families which still teach honor for home-oriented wives and mothers ; women who find their fulfilment in the home raising children).
Marxists like Obama's ilk must do all they can to make the federal government (soon to be a "national" government rather than federal because states rights are disappearing) our father and mother, uncle and aunt.
Whose got our troops backs? Will you help just a bit? Can you give 10 minutes of your time?
Send the following out to everyone in your ‘mailbox’ - AND to you’re representative in D.C., just to remind them that WE KNOW.
These are the men they think should have cut pay, cut benefits, longer time before retirement. Those law makers couldn’t survive ONE DAY like this.
http://restrepothemovie.com/home/trailer/
No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women and get these retirement benefits ...
” Members of Congress are eligible for a pension
at age 62 if they have completed at least five years of service.
Members are eligible
for a pension at age 50 if they have completed 20 years of service, or at any age after completing 25 years of service. The amount of the pension depends on years of
service and the average of the highest three years of salary.
By law, the starting
amount of a Member’s retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of his or her final
salary.”**************
So they have a much sweeter deal than out military and now they want to cut the military even more.
This administration HATES the military and intends to cut them everywhere they can.
Do you remember obama’s first attempted strike against the military right after he became president? He wanted to make the wounded troops pay for their treatment out of their private insurance - that scared even the dems and it didn’t get off the ground. But the mind set is there.
Even John Stewart was outraged.
This is funny - but disgusting.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-17-2009/that-can-t-be-right-—veterans—health-insurance
Meanwhile, they are trying to cut military pay and insurance again and increase their payment and retirement time. Meanwhile, they have the best insurance plans going and have rendered themselves exempt from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms.
Then, when he froze Social Security for 3 yrs, he tried to also freeze military pay for 3 yrs...that went over like a lead balloon, so he gave them the smallest increase since Korea. And all this in a time of war.
SUPPORT OUT TROOPS - Call YOUR reps.
I urge you look at this short clip of our troops in the infamous Korengal Valley, at the tiny, now famous, firebase “RESTREPO” - award winning movie available on DVD and netflix. the stars? The men themselves, the plot? Cameras running in real time, WAR as it is for our troops.,
This clip was done by award winning photojournalist, Tim Hetherington, who embedded with them for months. It’s called ‘Sleeping Soldiers” - he snuck up on them when they were sleeping - and then put their photos on screen with ACTUAL scenes from their deployment superimposed over them. It is haunting. (Tim became ‘family’ to the platoon and it’s families. He was killed in the beginning of obama’s illegal actions in Libya.)
Can you spare 4 minutes of your time to honor our troops by watching this? Maybe send it to your reps with a question?
“You want to cut these troops pay and benefits and retirement? Why don’t you cut the FAT out of your own cushioned benefits? And why don’t’ you demand that obama’s new Taliban Advantage ROE that are now killing our troops at record numbers be RESCINDED. Their blood is now on YOUR hands.”