Posted on 10/20/2023 11:29:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some members of the U.S. military, especially those serving at some of the most expensive duty assignments, are set to receive a cut in monthly allowance designed to offset the high costs of living.
According to a report from Military.com, the Defense Department will make a second round of cuts to troops’ overseas cost-of-living allowances (OCOLA) next month, with the final cut coming on Nov. 15 and affecting members’ Dec. 1 paychecks.
It seems a bit odd — unfair, even — that those who are already sacrificing to protect their country are being asked to take multiple cuts in pay by the very nation that they are serving. All the more so since, despite Bidenflation, so many others are getting freebies. Students are having their government loans forgiven, addicts are receiving free crack pipes and other accoutrements...and illegal aliens are getting cash and services thrown at them as if out of an industrial-strength Pez dispenser run amok.
The state of Illinois, for example, is providing up to $9,000 in rental assistance over a six-month period, including assistance with moving in and a starter kit to furnish the apartment. The Prairie State is funding temporary housing for “migrants,” including rented apartments and homes. Moreover, the city of Chicago has allocated an additional $4 million to assist migrants in obtaining temporary housing, to add to the $38 million contributed by the state.
Perhaps if our military members serving overseas who’ve had their pay cut went AWOL and came across our southern border in the guise of illegal aliens, the Biden administration might fly them to the Land of Lincoln and set them up in a nice abode, partially furnished.
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Have they totally forgotten how a military sells the notion of re-enlistment? This is not that.
Is this the same cut our Embassy personal are facing! What about the guy who fuels John Kerry’s jet? Times are tough for the little people…. Pass the Grey Poupon dear…..
This is just disgusting. I am so done with these Leftists pukes.
Cutting our military paychecks to pay for Ukraine’s?
And the brilliant affirmative action SecDef (Austin) wonders why the
DOD is having a recruiting problem. When you add this to the witch hunt for “white supremacists” in the military and the woke indoctrination, it is easy for any thinking person to see why there is a recruiting problem.
Did all the Ukes we’re paying take a cut?
And perish the thought of giving Hamas million$ if not billion$. Of course Joe probably doesn’t get 10% of military pay...
Ooops, I meant “And perish the thought of NOT giving Hamas million$ if not billion$. Of course Joe probably doesn’t get 10% of military pay...”
No one in their right mind would join today’s military. The DemocRATs will abandon you faster than the Clinton/Gates/Biden types will accost your daughter.
Will someone please explain this statement?
The cost of living is going up, so we’ll cut your pay? WTF?
Biden and Obanma are trying to destroy the military.
How is this not a breach of contract between State Department of Education and the School District and the taxpaying citizens of the District?
Sorry. Previous thread.
The ONLY people the Biden regime and most of congress prioritize are Illegal Aliens, Ukraine, and Israel. They say the Hell with America and its borders.
So am I.
Any time a democrat gets into office, the military gets screwed.
Any time a democrat gets into office, the military gets screwed.
A pay cut to the military is designed to offset the high cost of WHOSE living? This is either a serious misprint or an indication of the total loss of any common sense. When you get below a certain rank in the military a pay cut can be certain disaster. To some of the higher ranking, it might mean a change in life style, but they would still get by I think. Right now, with recruiting down, this is idiocy. When they recruit for the military, one starts out in the lower ranks. If that means not making enough to get by, where’s any incentive to join? Or were the geniuses thinking of “joining” as meaning to volunteer to fight our country’s often ill-chosen battles free of charge? In case of drafting this could only mean putting insult to injury.
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