Military members and retirees have already seen changes to their retirement and health benefits. When I came in back in the 70s, we were promised FREE healthcare for life and a pension of 50% of your highest annual pay. Now I have to pay for what was once promised to be free, and many retirees get a pension check that is less than what they were promised when they initially enlisted.
I was lucky, I came home in one piece both physically and mentally, the same cannot be said for many others. Most of them get some kind of disabilty waiver from taxes, but to ask them to pay more for their medical bills is just not right. I do not believe you will find many pols who will support that, and NONE on the GOP side outside maybe of a few wingnuts.
Hmmmm.....I believe you would hard pressed to find any DEMS outside of a few wingnuts too. But the fact is that the ones pushing this the hardest are GOP folks, specifically Michelle Bachmann and Paul Ryan (ok....they're wingnuts).
Republicans War on Veterans Benefits Continues
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Go Republicans!
Lower my taxes and get all those vets off the public sugar tit.
Before I start cussing, answer this for me.
Company's like GM would be doing really good if not for the union retirment. Since the government owns GM why don't we kill the union poension plan and all retired people will no longer ecieve their checks. How do you feel about that chris?