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CNN: Panetta to Recommend Pay Cut For Military
CNN ^
| Wednesday, February 6, 2013
| Barbara Starr
Posted on 02/06/2013 9:37:42 AM PST by kristinn
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This Ain't Hell: "This from the guy who used to spend $36,000 every weekend to spend it with his family while the people he commanded were stuck in a faraway **** hole and wouldnt see their families for months at a time. Now hes suddenly worried about defense spending."
My comment: Troop suicides aren't high enough for Obama? I can't recall a time where a commander-in-chief cut the pay of the military during a war.
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:37:48 AM PST
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
But Federal Employees still get automatic COLIs (raises) ??
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:41:32 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
To: kristinn
My God, is there no end to what these ba$tards will do to our military, our families, our country, and our homes? Is there no end?
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:41:47 AM PST
by
laweeks
To: kristinn
“Just days before he leaves office...”
Coward.
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:42:32 AM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
To: kristinn
This is one of those government ‘cuts’. Where it’s still an increase, but not as much as usual.
To: kristinn
RAT math...if I’m reading this right, a 1% increase as opposed to a 1.7% increase is a cut.
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:43:23 AM PST
by
stylin19a
To: kristinn
Our soldiers should be better off than those on Section 8, EBT cards, Welfare, and SSDI.
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:44:25 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: kristinn
Did they already cut the military increases over the last couple of years? I wish I could say I was surprised,,but I’m not. Scumbag Panetta. Meanwhile, Gov Quinn in Illinois wants to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10 an hour. Again, who is surprised?
To: kristinn
An absolute outrage! If there are any pay-cuts, let them start with the White House, Congress and the civilian bureaucrats all of whom collectively hang like an albatross around the Nation's neck!
Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!
Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:44:43 AM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:49:41 AM PST
by
Nachum
(The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
This guy is an idiot!
IF your gonna cut, cut those Congressmen, Senators, and the Executive Branch!
To even think about cutting Service Personell pay is treason!
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:56:06 AM PST
by
Conserev1
("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
To: sickoflibs
COLI has been frozen for about 3 years now ...
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:56:58 AM PST
by
dartuser
("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
To: sickoflibs
govt employees have too high a pay system as it is, along with outrageous benefits and pensions....
but why in the world would they even consider cutting military pay and not fed employee pay?.......it's an obscenity...
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:57:20 AM PST
by
cherry
To: laweeks
My God, is there no end to what these ba$tards will do to our military, our families, our country, and our homes? Is there no end?
Look at it this way, it all favors the citizens when the tyrannical government tries to order a pissed off military to shoot on it's own people. They'll polish off the ones giving the orders instead, out of retribution for all that they did during this regime.
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:57:20 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(All we are saying, is give a high cap piece a chance.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Coward." Yes he is. But the "man" that ordered him to do this is a way bigger coward.
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posted on
02/06/2013 9:58:20 AM PST
by
Jaxter
("Pro Aris et Focis")
To: kristinn
But this article says military pay will still rise.
It will be a 1% hike instead of 1.7%. They're calling that a "cut".
To: stylin19a
While I don’t approve in this case, he is at least being consistent in calling a reduction of a planned increase a spending cut...they do it all the time. This is what Democrats do: Reductions in planned increases are a CUT.
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posted on
02/06/2013 10:00:35 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: cherry
but why in the world would they even consider cutting military pay and not fed employee pay? I'll take things that begin with the letter "U" for $100 Alex.
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posted on
02/06/2013 10:01:33 AM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: cherry
but why in the world would they even consider cutting military pay and not fed employee pay? They're going to have to find $50 B or so in cuts on the domestic side too.
It hasn't been mentioned as much because they're trying to browbeat the GOP to back down on sequestration by hammering only military stories, but Obama will eventually have to come up with cuts on his side...which are domestic cuts.
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