“Levin initially told reporters Tuesday that he would back Ayotte’s bill, providing a big boost to the effort to reverse the military retiree cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) reduction included in the last month’s budget deal.
But a Levin aide said that the Armed Services chairman endorsed Ayotte’s bill before realizing that it restored the cuts by preventing illegal immigrants from claiming a child tax credit.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3109428/posts
If you are trying to justify your check because someone else also gets a check I’m not sure what your objective is.
We don’t have the money, not for all the Federal, military, state and municipal retirees to get million dollar pensions.
We don’t have money for illegals or obamaphones either.
We can’t pay for any of it.
So what do we do?