Via Newsmax:
President Obama has told Congress he will cap next year’s pay raise for U.S. military personnel at 1 percent instead of boosting pay by 1.8 percent as called for by a federal law.
The president’s move will negatively impact American combat troops scheduled to remain in Afghanistan through 2014.
The federal law says military pay raises must be based on the Employment Cost Index compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which ties military raises to private sector pay growth. Under that formula, military personnel should be getting a 1.8 percent pay raise beginning in January 2014, CNS News reported.
But the law also states that the president can inform Congress of an alternative pay adjustment “if because of national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, the president considers the pay adjustment which would otherwise be required by this section in any year to be inappropriate.”
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BGP,
ReplyDeleteYou just don't get it.
By only getting a 1% raise, they become eligible for a Government program.
I'm waiting for the military to cut all personnel down to 29.5 hours a week, so they don't have to offer health care.
And then the Government steps in to give health care to all military personnel.
Get with it BGP, you don't know how it works YET?
I think you need to go back to the re-education camp.
Notice how they say cutting the pay RAISE to ONLY 1%?
ReplyDeleteBut when you cut a raise in the budget, it's called destroying the middle class.
Go figure