Benedict Ryan smiles.
Posted on 12/17/2013 6:07:16 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
It isn’t important.
Every year the USG goes out of their way to ensure the absentee ballots of servicemen overseas are not counted.
As such, the vets don’t count. Just keep your post, my son. We know what’s best for you.
Duncan Hunter, voted FOR this
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WHAT?
Nah, that is just too much...... the GOP must be dismantled and destroyed ASAP. We have two years to create a new Party.
Kelly Ayotte was on FNC trying to get this out of the bill.
She did not try at the right place.
any military benefit cut should be a secondary cut....non military should be cut first....
most of all, in all entities...schools...state...fire depts..police depts...military:....we have to say goodbye to retiring people at 20 or 30 yrs...we just have too...
Well as a US Navy Vet from the Viet Nam era, I’m very proud of my service to Our GREAT Country back in the sixties.
I did develop a hearing loss at that time and a later request to the VA developed a hearing loss due to active duty aboard ship.
I’m very proud of my service in the US Navy (63-67). My hearing loss over the years is attributed to my time in service.
From my latest hearing test last month revealed that my hearing loss has elevated from a 40 per cent loss to 70 per cent over the past two years. I will be receiving new hearing aids on Dec 20th from the VA.
I urge anyone who might have a medical/physical problem from their Service to continue applying to the VA for further treatment. Your own response may indeed set the wheels in motion for disabled veteran.
Thank You to each and every Veteran for You Service to Our Great Country. I’ll always stand with you!
Are McCain and Kerry exempt?
Yes, yet another strategy by the GOPe to throw away part of their natural base and make sure the Rats retain power.
I wouldn’t want a 60 year old fireman trying to carry me or my mom, but have had 60 year old teachers who were great... There is a difference between when teachers & public safety should be allowed to retire, for obvious reasons. However, it seems the teachers always get the better deals.
Did Duncan Hinter come out for the budget deal or something?
It hasn’t been voted on in the House yet.
Anyone who votes for this spending bill (disguised as a budget bill) needs to be removed in the coming elections, whether R or D.
The cut to the retirement for Vets including the disabled Vets is unconscionable.
I’m wrong. I didn’t realize this monstrosity of a bill already passed the house.
Sorry, you are much more current than I am. I didn’t realized the House already sold us and all the disabled Vets out.
Does it matter if they have An R or a D? This is insane.
So let me get this straight, a veteran leverages their skill and work ethic into a post military job and because of that, they are punished because they are of “working age”?
I guess the next step is to withold their “full pension” until they finally, fully “retire”?
Hell, just think of the savings, waiting for hundreds or thousands to die in the interim. And if they don’t die off before the “retirement age”, then just raise the “retirement age” until you get into the black.
And to think, there are folks on this board who believe this is perfectly reasonable.
That those who stepped up to the plate and made sacrifices in order to serve, should be the FIRST to step up and take it in the A$$ while the takers of this country feel nothing.
When you government workers take it in shorts like the military, get back to me. Got all your back pay yet from the days off during sequester?
Until then, spare me the faux rhetoric of “we’re all in this together” bullcrap.
Once again, the military get the shaft first, above and beyond every other segment of society.
When do the takers start feeling the pinch?
But welfare to illegals will continue. What’s wrong with this picture?
Everything. There is no excuse why veterans, including disabled veterans, lose benefits while illegal aliens continue to steal our tax dollars.
James R. McClure Jr.
Anti-Federalist Democrat candidate for IN9
The military does not vote for Democrats and the Democrats only do what is in their personal and collective best interests. They could care less about the military and prefer to cater to their own constituencies: the indolent, the lazy, the grifters, the criminals, the self indulgent, the useless in society.
I, a Democrat, care about our veterans. I'm running because I care and My opponent voted for this trash. I don't cater to the dependency part of society. I'm a Jeffersonian Anti-Federalist and believe in the founding ideals of a strict interpretation of the Constitution, limited federal power, and State sovereignty.
Those who have sacrificed for their country just do not count in the political equation.
They count in MY political equation. I won't turn My back on those who have sacrificed to keep America free.
James R. McClure Jr
Anti-Federalist Democrat candidate for IN9
God bless you for your service, Doc! Oohrah!
James R. McClure Jr. [CM/2, NMCB24 supporting 2MEF, Al Asad 2005]
Anti-Federalist Democrat candidate for IN9
God bless you for your service!
James R. McClure Jr.
Anti-Federalist candidate for IN9
Benedict Ryan smiles.
Schumer: Veterans Must Face Budget Cuts, Too
Everybody had to take a little," Schumer said. "They're going to have to pay a tiny, little bit into it, which they never have," he added. But Schumer maintained members of Congress should not be forced to take a pay cut. He said they have already sacrificed, since they have not seen a pay raise "in a long time," and explained most of them are paying more for healthcare insurance. "We have taken pretty big cuts," he said.
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