Bush 'strongly opposes ' military pay increase of 3.9%.

[cayuga]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/23/military-pay-cut/

`snip`

"Military Pay: The Administration strongly opposes sections 601 and 608 of the bill. The additional 0.5 percent increase in 2009 above the President’s proposed 3.4 percent across-the-board pay increase is unnecessary, as are increased pay raises in the outyears. The 10th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation reaffirmed that the overall military benefit package provides a good quality of life for servicemembers and their families. While the Administration agrees that military pay must be kept competitive, the 3.4 percent raise, equal to the increase in the Employment Cost Index, will do that. The cost of these provisions, above the President’s Budget request, is $293 million in FY 2009 and $8.3 billion from FY 2009 to FY 2014."


Obviously some over-inflated elitist with several homes, numerous autos, a trophy wife, vacations on isolated private islands, a wine cellar, on off-shore bank account, a private chef, and a huge golden parachute needs the money much more than those who daily put their lives on the life so that jerks like that can live like that.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Support Our Troops!

:eyes:

[Booster]

2. Thanks for posting this. I sent it to everyone on my email list

saying "if you agree with Bush, don't send me any more emails saying how much you support the troops".

[marmar]

3. Worthless POS.....

:argh:

[GodlessBiker]

4. It's hard to verbalize how offensive this is, when 700 billion is being bandied about.

[prayin4rain]

5. ah that's the valiant patriot i know him to be! n/t

[Canuckistanian]

6. This REALLY demonstrates their heartlessness, especially today

And it shows where their TRUE priorities lie.

"The troops" are just stage props to them.

[doc03]

7. But he can give a trillion dollar blank check to

Wall Street.