Obama cuts military pay raise by half

[Lovebears65]

Here is a thought. CUT YOUR PAY Obama.. Why cut the raise to the military who are dying to keep YOU SAFE ..Obama slashes proposed military pay raise almost in half - Wilmington Conservative | Examiner.com

 

[J.E.D]

Obama writes Congress in support of 1 percent pay raise for federal employees

President Obama told congressional leaders late Friday that he intends to give federal employees a 1 percent pay raise starting Jan. 1 because Congress has taken no action on the issue.

Obama had announced in his budget plan in April that he wanted to end a nearly three-year pay freeze for the federal workforce. But since Congress has not passed a spending plan for fiscal 2014, the president is required by the end of August to come up with an “alternative pay plan” to avoid a legal trigger that would automatically raise federal pay in line with private-sector salaries. That trigger could, in theory, give federal workers a raise of about 34 percent.

Obama, bowing to budget constraints and political pressure, announced in 2010 that pay rates for federal employees would be frozen for 2011 and 2012. Congress then passed a law initiating the freeze and has continued it this year.

 

[MeBelle]

Obama writes Congress in support of 1 percent pay raise for federal employees

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In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Obama said civilian federal employees “have already made significant sacrifices as a result of a three-year pay freeze.”

Union leaders praised the order as a welcome effort to restore the practice of paying federal employees an annual raise.

“Although the one percent is a pitiful amount that doesn’t begin to compensate for the furloughs and three years of frozen pay, it is a welcome development,” J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a statement.

A temporary spending agreement for most agencies is silent on a raise. Appropriations for other agencies left room for one, but require them to rein in their spending to compensate for the additional cost. The exception is the Defense Department; a Senate committee approved a funding bill this month that includes a 1 percent increase for civilian and military personnel, as recommended by the White House.

Civilian federal employees, who belong to a union are much different than military personnel.

 

[g5000]

Here is a thought. CUT YOUR PAY Obama.. Why cut the raise to the military who are dying to keep YOU SAFE ..Obama slashes proposed military pay raise almost in half - Wilmington Conservative | Examiner.com

The President has not had a pay raise since he took office.

In fact, the last Presidential pay raise was in January 2001.

No sitting President can receive a pay raise.

 

[g5000]

Before anyone screams, "IMPEACH!!", here is the relevant law:

(e) Presidential Determination of Need for Alternative Pay Adjustment.—
(1) 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, the President shall prepare and transmit to Congress before September 1 of the preceding year a plan for such alternative pay adjustments as the President considers appropriate, together with the reasons therefor.
(2) In evaluating an economic condition affecting the general welfare under this subsection, the President shall consider pertinent economic measures including the Indexes of Leading Economic Indicators, the Gross Domestic Product, the unemployment rate, the budget deficit, the Consumer Price Index, the Producer Price Index, the Employment Cost Index, and the Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures.
(3) The President shall include in the plan submitted to Congress under paragraph (1) an assessment of the impact that the alternative pay adjustments proposed in the plan would have on the Government’s ability to recruit and retain well-qualified persons for the uniformed services.

37 USC § 1009 - Adjustments of monthly basic pay | Title 37 - Pay and Allowances Of The Uniformed Services | U.S. Code | LII / Legal Information Institute

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Good ol' Obammy. Can't cut worthless bureaucracies or feather-bedded military expenses. No, sir. Cut them pay raises and furlough employees -- they don't count for much, anyway.

What an asshole.

 

[bodecea]

Once again, a fail thread from Lovebear. The President has no power over pay for the military....it's all on Congress. He can push, he can conjole.....but the purse strings belong to Congress.

 

[Sallow]

Once again, a fail thread from Lovebear. The President has no power over pay for the military....it's all on Congress. He can push, he can conjole.....but the purse strings belong to Congress.

Thanks to the Republican/Conservative sequester, we are cutting government expenses.

Ain't you folks proud?

 

[bodecea]

Once again, a fail thread from Lovebear. The President has no power over pay for the military....it's all on Congress. He can push, he can conjole.....but the purse strings belong to Congress.

That's to the Republican/Conservative sequester, we are cutting government expenses.

Ain't you folks proud?

I simply cannot understand why the OP, being a military spouse, doesn't know about how military pay raises are done.

 

[KissMy]

Obama's military spending is almost double that of other presidents.

President George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney & Colin Powell cut the defense budget by 25 percent.

President Dwight Eisenhower, a five-star Army general and lifelong Republican, slashed defense spending by 27 percent.

Richard Nixon, also a Republican and Eisenhower’s vice president, cut the budget by 29 percent.