I always find it amazing when this Congress decides to do something they consider constructive……most times it is not constructive at all. When they take on ways to cut spending it is always someone who is their bread and butter voter and they almost always get away with it.
Take for instance our military…..back when I was a soldier the re-enlistment talk was about how if you lasted until retirement that you would have all the benefits that you had in the military…..total medical, dental and a good pension and the big one, an education, for when you retired at an early age…..I never fell for the BS and now the Congress wants to stick it to the military once again……..
McClatchy is reporting……..
Congress is considering changing, for the first time in decades, the way service members get retirement pay.
Military retirement now carries an all-or-nothing pension plan that requires a minimum of 20 years of service. The new plan would cut those pensions to 40 percent of pay from 50 percent, and create a matched 401(k)-style plan open to all service members.
The new retirement rules would affect all troops enlisting after the new plan is put in place in October 2017, Military Times reported. Troops already in the ranks could opt into the new plan or stick with the current “cliff vesting” system, it said.
Everyone who runs for public office in The United States ought to be required to have served in the military honorably before they get elected to offices where they can get the power to screw the military over — and that includes the Office of The President as well.
Having served honorably, actively and for a full term or more in the military ought to be a mandated requirement for anybody to even qualify to run for public office in the first place.
I agree……as it is now….too many that have NO idea what it means to be a soldier control the lives of soldiers…..that should be unacceptable to every American.