[bestintxas]

to reduce spending on the backs of those in harms way while not addressing those on welfare who do nothing to earn money disqualifies this idiot from ever being President.

We already made the mistake of electing someone like that and are still paying for it.

[VRWC For Truth]

He’s as big an A-Hole as Soetoro.

[Steve_Seattle]

I checked a couple of sources and got figures of 21 million and 26 million for the current number of veterans. I took a number somewhere in the middle - 23 million - and divided $6 billion by that number. My answer was $260.87 per person. How are they coming up with these $100,000 per person figures?

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm still trying to figure out the math on this proposal. The article references a potential cut of $100,000 on a pension that would have earned $1.8 million before the cut (reducing the pension to $1.7 million).

It also talks about someone serving from 18 to 38, retiring at 62, and so forth. When you retire from the military, do you begin earning your pension immediately, even if you are only 38 or 40? If so, using the figures given in the article, someone who retires at 38 would collect $1.8 million over 24 years, and $1.7 million in the new system. But if the actual COLA is 2.5%, and they get 1% less (1.5%), that would cut the annual pension COLA by about $700, or about $16,000 over the 24 years from age 38 to age 62, at which time (according to the article) the veteran would be reimbursed for that difference. And is a military pension currently about $70,000 a year? That's the number I get using the figures in the article. So I think the article is very confusing because the numbers don't add up. How could a 1% reduction in the COLA add up to $100,000? Only if we have very high inflation? Even then, at 62 the veteran would get it all back.

[minnesota_bound]

I am tired of gimmicks and double dealing crooked politicians.

[Just mythoughts]

Yet this former GOP-e veep nominee inflated his marathon time. I knew then he was a liberal!

[TomasUSMC]

coal in sock moment