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.
This is a bogus site!
SLAVERY ANYONE?
This is typical. What a disgrace he is!
Why don’t we cut Obama’s pay and the NFL, NBA AND MLB and give to the men and women who protect our country!
cRIMINAL CONDUCT BY THE SO CALLOEEC cINc!!
Doug, did you actually work 24-7? is that how you come up with 4.80 / hour. E7 pay over 10 years is over 60k for base, bas, and bah, not including health care which us civilians. Most GS employees in the commands I was in, weren’t allowed OT.
Where are you CONGRESS!!!!
Could we please do the drop Hillary in any zone and she will fix it thing, then our military can stay home…
Before you get all bent out of shape, take a deep breath, count to ten and then look at the facts, keeping in mind that reducing the size of a raise is not even in the same ballpark as cutting pay. The President, FOLLOWING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PENTAGON, sent the Congress a proposal to cap military pay RAISES at 1.3 percent. That is 1 per cent less than what House Republicans want to provide, exactly the same as what Senate Republicans are backing and 0.3 per cent MORE than what is being proposed for other federal employees. According to the Military Times: “House lawmakers have voted for budget plans that would provide a 2.3 percent pay raise for troops … but Senate proposals so far have backed the lower 1.3 percent plan.
“For an E-4 with three years of service, the difference between the two potential pay raises would total about $268 a year. For an O-4 with 12 years, it would be about $838.
“Pentagon leaders have noted that troops will see a pay raise under either plan, and insist the smaller increase is needed to help keep modernization and training accounts solvent. The higher 2.3 percent raise will cost about $4 billion more over the next five years than the Pentagon wants to spend.”
Someone needs to cut his pay!!