Posted on 12/24/2013 10:52:47 AM PST by SkyPilot
Veterans and conservatives are expressing outrage toward House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). The cuts to retired service members pensions embedded in the budget deal cut by him and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) elicited an overwhelming surge of social media responses.
Members of the retired armed services community and conservatives across America are swarming Ryans social media accounts to express their disgust. Thousands are stepping up to rip Ryan over the deal. For example, one disabled veteran, Nicole Vaccaro Julian, wrote Ryan that his actions have cost him her support. This disabled vet will no longer support you! Vaccaro Julian wrote.
Another, retired Air Force veteran Paula Benway Flores, wrote that she hopes Ryan is removed from public office. I never want to see your face again and hope we can get you out of office quickly, Benway Flores wrote. Faking to care about your fellow Americans and backstabbing the very people who give you your freedom. You make me question what I ever fought for and why I sacrificed my life and time away from my family.....Mr Ryan you DISGUST me with your fake integrity."
Mac Cochran, a retired U.S. Army sergeant, wrote that Ryan is not friendly to veterans. Paul Ryan, you are no friend of the Veteran, Cochran wrote. How dare you take money from those that have risked everything to defend this Nation and what it represents...shame on you. Sergeant First Class US Army Retired.
Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Justin Maloney wrote that Ryan has betrayed him and other veterans. "Paul Ryan, I just stopped liking you. I feel betrayed, Maloney wrote.
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If I read pension cuts one more time I’m going to scream. It’s a one percent change in the rate of increase beginning in 2015.
Ryan is an A-hole as big as Soetoro.
For the average guy who doesn't think its a big deal never wore combat boots.
I wore combat boots for 6 years.
I read that some deem them not necessary in the age of COSTCO and Sam's Club.
The future of policy in DC from the big parties are austerity measures that involve “cuts” to programs along with higher taxes.
This is what Ryan and Murray just did with their “bipartisan” deal with most of their respective parties members in the House voting for it.
In the Senate, 36 Republicans opposed it, but for most of them it was a show they were putting on.
Changing the way the COLA is calculated was also proposed as a way to extend the life of social Security.
27 years and counting.
My gut is telling me that both parties are gaging the backlash from this episode before targeting Social Security COLA in the near future. Forbes' Robert Laura wrote about it last weekend
Military Retirement Cuts: Prelude To Coming Social Security Changes
Congress is full of a bunch of snakes in the grass.
That's still a cut from what we were supposed to get. Don't fall for government bafflegab.
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
Ryan doesn't care. He wants to use this betrayal as a springboard towards screwing us all further.
Merry Christmas.
Get ready to scream. It is a cut in their future pensions. By reducing their COLA by 1% they are reducing the pensions until they reach 65.
All true, but never forget that he had help - a lot of RINOS are enjoying some time out of the mix even though they voted in the House or tried their "I voted for cloture but didn't vote for it" yo-yo-s in the Senate.
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