While shouting that the minimum wage for illegal aliens working at McDonalds should be $15. an hour, President Obama used a loophole in the US Code deter a pay raise to the military. The lower pay increase translates to a Pay Grade E-4 (Corporal, Petty Officer 3d Class, Specialist 4, Senior Airman) with less than three years in service will earn less than $3.00 an hour. Under the 2016 pay scale, a Pay Grade E-1 undergoing recruit training will be paid roughly $2.15 an hour.
Read those miniscule numbers again and then go to the next page for more.
Lacey Renae Mercer
Dum ass
Ha,ha,ha! I’ll bet half of them will vote Democratic and get another cut NEXT year ! The coal miners were told by ovomit 2008 he was going to close all the coal mines, they voted for him 2008,2012 ! You just can’t fix stupid !
This is down right ugly and sinful.
Cut his pay! They earn theirs unlike Odumba
illegal aliens should not be in this country and hell no they should not be making 15 per hour to flip a hamburger give our military what they deserve
Didn’t the$#%&!@*ask for a raise for the presidents why he’s not in prison I will never understand
Wish people would fact check before posting nonsense. Here is how military pay is determine and guess what the presidents recommendation has to be approved by congress ans guess what congress is controlled by Republicans. Pay raises[edit]
U.S. Code dictates a rather complex equation for military pay raises, based on the Employment Cost Index, a measure compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to track the costs of labor for businesses. Military pay increases by “the percentage (rounded to the nearest one-tenth of one percent) by which the ECI for the base quarter of the year before the preceding year exceeds the ECI for the base quarter of the second year before the preceding calendar year (if at all).” Specifically, the code states that the ECI for wages and salaries of private industry workers will be used.
Essentially, when the ECI goes up, so does military pay, so that military salaries do not fall behind civilian ones. For example, because the ECI increased 1.4 percent in 2009, that was the proposed military pay raise in 2010. The raise is unusually low — the smallest percent change since the series began in 1975, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The President is empowered to suggest a lower or higher pay raise, which must be ratified by Congress, in extenuating circumstances like an economic crisis. Congress can also vote to change the president’s proposed decrease or increase. For the 2011 budget, the House Armed Services Committee suggested boosting the 1.4 percent raise. But Defense personnel officials resisted, saying they would rather that money be used for other programs that benefit military families. After an 11-year string of increases that slightly exceeded average private sector annual raises, Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick said that, “We actually think we have a surplus in terms of pay.” The Department of Defense announced increases in military housing allowances, family support programs, and child care and tuition assistance for military families in the 2011 budget request, many of which outpace the base pay increase.
We need to cut his pay
Haven’t had a cost of living increase in my SS in 2 years.