“I’m one of the guys paying for it. There aren’t enough of me to pay all of the folks like you everything you want to get.”
You are one of the guys who promised to pay the bonds that the retirement pension fund consists of...so are you a liar?
It was pre-paid, and the US has not yet defaulted on our debt. The only sense in which you pay anything currently is in honoring the bonds sold to the trust fund.
“Explain that to your grandchildren when you hand them the bill.”
My kids were in the military. And my grandkids will grow up knowing how to pay their bills and keep their promises. It is a pity you do not know how.
“We don’t have the money, not for all the Federal, military, state and municipal retirees to get million dollar pensions.”
The military pension is the only one mentioned that has been fully funded all along. That was one of the reasons I trusted it - because it was prepaid, and backed with the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
Now you want me to feel sorry for you because you need to honor the bonds you issued. Well, I think you must be a pathetic weasel to complain about paying back the money you borrowed from military veterans.
And you STILL refuse to say what good things Congress will do with the “savings”. You also fail to explain why only the military needs to “save” the money.
I’ll make you a deal. I’ll take a 20% cut in my retirement, when the folks on SS, welfare, and all federal employees also take a 20% cut. When it is across the board, and goes to cut the debt, we’ve got a deal. Until then, you and your Democrat friends are simply attacking their betters out of hatred and envy so you can shovel the money to people you like better.
Which will it be - tax refunds to illegals who don’t pay taxes ($4,200 million each year) or the military retirement system ($600 million each year)? It seems you prefer the illegals...and you are a FREEPER!
Good Lord, but our country has gone to hell! Even Freepers want to punish the military and reward illegals!
“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll take a 20% cut in my retirement, when the folks on SS, welfare, and all federal employees also take a 20% cut. “
You very likely won’t have to take even this reduction in increase (known as a “cut” amongst government check recipients of all kinds). Nobody will get even a small haircut. It’ll just keep rolling along.
Until it stops.
Then what do we do?