Team Democrat must really, really, really want to lose the November midterms, otherwise I can't imagine why they would be pushing these awful policy changes:
The Pentagon on Monday announced a budget for 2015 that would slash benefits for active-duty personnel while reducing the army’s size to a pre-World War II level.The budget, unveiled by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, would cut the growth of housing allowances for troops and their families and reduce subsidies provided to military commissaries that provide military families with low-cost goods.
In addition, the Pentagon will no longer reimburse renter’s insurance, basic pay raises will be held to 1 percent, and general and flag officers will see a pay freeze for one year.
The budget would also increase healthcare co-pays and deductibles for retirees and active-duty family members, except for those medically retired.
Sure, the Pentagon has needed to go on a diet for decades, but come on: Renter's insurance and cheap eats aren't the principal reason why we spend so much money on the military. Overpriced shit like this is. How about we try cutting out some of that before we start nickel-and-diming the enlisted men, as well as handing Team Republican yet another cudgel that they can use to beat the administration like a baby seal come November?
Then again, at least they are consistent: When they talk about "shared sacrifice", what they really mean is "austerity for all"---except for banks and defense contractors, that is.
---Baron V
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