Bush Balks at 3.5% Raise for Our Troops.
Writing by Marq on Wednesday, 18 of July , 2007 at 1:13 pm
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Reason 12,349 as to why the Republicans hate the troops. The Democratic Congress has in the Defense Appropriations Bill a 3.5% pay raise for the troops starting in October, the start of the governments fiscal year. Bush thinks this is far to much for our troops. How dare the troops who are asked to do 15 month deployments in Iraq, with only a few months at home before they do it again, ask for a raise.
I kid you not, this is sick! 3.5% is nothing, and trust me, I was a troop, they make nothing! Bush has a new motto for the troops, “Nothing is to good for the men, and nothing is what they are going to get as long as I am president”
The Honolulu Advertiser as a good breakdown
Technorati Tags: 3.5%, Bush, Hate, Military, pay raise, republicans, troopsTalk about lousy timing. With President Bush’s popularity scraping bottom in opinion polls, with U.S. casualties rising in Iraq in a force surge that has stretched tours to 15 months, the Bush administration has said it “strongly opposes” key military pay and benefit gains tossed into the fiscal 2008 defense bill.
Initiatives the administration opposes include:
- A military pay raise for next January of 3.5 percent versus 3 percent endorsed by the White House.
- Lowering the age-60 start of reserve retirement annuities for reserve component members by the length of their future mobilizations.
- Expanding eligibility for Combat-Related Special Compensation to service members forced by combat disabilities to retire short of 20 years.
- Directing pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide the Department of Defense with same-price discounts for Tricare retail pharmacy network that are provided on medicines dispensed from base pharmacies.
The administration also grumbled that the Senate intends to block for another year Tricare fee increases for under-65 retirees and dependents.
The objections appear in a “Statement of Administration Policy” from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget delivered to Senate leaders as they opened floor debate on the defense authorization bill.
A day later, Senate Republicans, at White House urging, blocked amendments that would have shortened Iraq tours for U.S. ground forces and slowed the frequency of war deployments.
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