AP forgot to add, “and Merry Christmas!”
AP numbers are bullshit. An E-1 makes $1,500 a month, or $18K in annual pay. E-1 w/o defendants live in the barracks and eat in the mess hall. Medical care in at the base clinic or hospital. So that is a take home pay of about $1,200 or less a month.
Not really sure what that has to do with cutting retiree pay. An E-7 with 20 years gets about $2,100 a month before taxes, or about $25,000 a year per tax. Not too bad, but being too young to also get SS, you can’t live off it.
And unlike welfare, there is no extra money for the kiddies.
I would not have a problem w/ this if everyone else in govt. took a cut too, including all social programs.