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Ryan defends military benefits cuts (Proposed "fix" will NOT cover disabled retirees)
The Hill ^ | 22 Dec 13 | Molly K. Hooper

Posted on 12/22/2013 11:43:30 AM PST by SkyPilot

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To: RKBA Democrat

I know what you mean, same here. It helps to just distance myself, but the ‘rats won’t leave it there, they are determined to drill their tyranny down into people’s personal lives if they possibly can, they don’t want anyone to live and let live, they want to force acquiescence.


41 posted on 12/22/2013 2:36:45 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Lazamataz
Forgot to mention in my month as King and making all that happen, I would step down and retire to Figi after appointing decent Constitutional men to keep my dictates in line. If they screw up from there, well, I'm in a hut just off the water.

Got your vote for me as King? I vote for me! Got signs?

42 posted on 12/22/2013 2:38:03 PM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever!)
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To: USNBandit

“Goes after military retirees, won’t touch Obamaphones, fraudulent child tax credits, Medicaid fraud. $6 billion dollars over ten years. The last 4 month budget deal included $2 billion for a public works project just to buy off Mitch McConnell.”

The GOPe is more concerned with illegal aliens than they are with taxpaying citizens in the middle-class. After all that has been asked of the military in the last 10+ years, this jackass decides to play with fire.


43 posted on 12/22/2013 2:54:36 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: A Navy Vet

I would vote for all of that.

Good list.


44 posted on 12/22/2013 3:00:20 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: A Navy Vet

Repeal the 16th and abolish the income tax.
Privatize and phase out social security and medicare.
Enforce the 10th amendment.


45 posted on 12/22/2013 3:11:28 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SkyPilot

Hey, Ryan—why not concentrate on cutting benefits for Congressmen and retired Congressmen? Oh—that’s just too close to home.


46 posted on 12/22/2013 3:44:19 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: DJ Taylor
Chief MSgt Wooten says it all in post #20. Thank you for posting that.

I don't know what will happen, as another Freeper said, $6 Billion over 10 years is absolute pocket change to the Federal government. The only "logic" I can think of as to why in the hell they would do this to our retirees and currently serving active duty is this: they want to decimate military pay, health care, tuition assistance, retirement, disability pay - ALL of it, and they used this excuse of jamming this provision in the budget a few days before Christmas (and facing a huge budget deadline) to get the camel's nose under the tent.

47 posted on 12/22/2013 4:01:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Remember when the military and vets voted overwhelmingly Republican??

Those days are likely over.


48 posted on 12/22/2013 4:31:33 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Diogenesis

RINO’s are determined to give the Democrats a supermajority in 2014


49 posted on 12/22/2013 4:33:15 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: SkyPilot

mittwit romney ryan jr.


50 posted on 12/22/2013 4:39:17 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: GeronL
Remember when the military and vets voted overwhelmingly Republican?? Those days are likely over.

If the Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan think that by betraying a group of Americans who have given so much to this nation is a recipe for victory in 2014, they are sadly mistaken. This will go down in political lore as one of the most stupid miscalculations in history.

51 posted on 12/22/2013 4:41:05 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Lazamataz

Complicit Party is exactly right.


52 posted on 12/22/2013 4:47:01 PM PST by thestob (Paul Ryan is determined to destroy this country)
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To: thestob

Ryan is just marching to the K Street drummer here. Donors and appropriators wanted new defense spending. Dems said fine but you have to cut something else in DOD. So Ryan happily drops this FU bomb on the vets to get a deal with spending for his K Street buddies and big donors.


53 posted on 12/22/2013 4:54:05 PM PST by lodi90
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To: SkyPilot

Hey Paul. Why not allow your employers to cut yours and the rest of the congressional retirement pay? Is that on the cutting board? Why not? I think it’s time for term limits. Three two year terms in the house and two terms in the senate with a lifetime term cap as stated & NO CONGRESSIONAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Oink Oink Paul Ryan.


54 posted on 12/22/2013 5:02:47 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: SkyPilot

Here is what Paul Ryan didn’t tell you: military pensions, since 1984, have been pre-funded. Each year the military sets aside the money needed to fund future retirees. That fund is in the black. There is no shortage of money to fund current retirees at the full rate promised.

However, by cutting the COLA, Congress can take money out of the pension fund, since it is now ‘overfunded’.

This is simply a raid on the pension fund ALREADY paid for by the US taxpayer. If a CEO raided the pension fund to pay current operating expenses, what would people say?

That is what Paul Ryan has done. He is selling out retirees and raiding the pension fund that pays our retirement so he can pull $600 MILLION out each year to pay for current expenses!

For the record, my last combat tour was Afghanistan when I was 49. So much for retiring at 38...


55 posted on 12/22/2013 5:06:22 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: SkyPilot

FU Paul Ryan!

Possibly the stinkingest piece of excrement in congress.
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56 posted on 12/22/2013 5:17:08 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s him for sure!


57 posted on 12/22/2013 5:17:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Theodore R.

I didn’t know she switched parties. When did she do that?

If they went after all federal employees, I bet they could count on a lot more than 6 billion, but they only want to go after the military. This guy is a jerk. I hope he loses his seat. I think I would vote for a Dem rather than see Ryan get reelected. We just don’t need anymore false conservatives. And I used to think he was one of the good guys.


58 posted on 12/22/2013 5:36:08 PM PST by FR_addict
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ryan can go to hell on a sled. He is totally finished politically. He is a total Rockefeller liberal. Purge him soon.


59 posted on 12/22/2013 6:27:34 PM PST by SADMILLIE (r)
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To: SkyPilot

I voted for my last RINO in Mitt Romney!

I will never again grab the ankles for a back-stabbing, POS, RINO like Paul Ryan!


60 posted on 12/22/2013 7:03:21 PM PST by Artcore
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