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 $2.15 an hour.
Read those miniscule numbers again and then go to the next page for more.
True. While I was on active duty as an Officer in Charge of an 80 person unit, I had many E-4 and below that received foods stamps. On more than one occasion I paid the electric bill for younger Sailors with a wife and babies because they couldn’t afford it and it was cut off. Because I was responsible for my people, I was responsible for their safety and welfare. If they had to deal with not being able to keep their families warm, they couldn’t perform duties as effectively because of worries. So, I paid the bills out of my pocket. This should never have to happen.
He has the power to veto. What about his Executive Orders he uses to give HIM what HE wants?
No it shouldn’t. I was E-4/E-5 stationed in Cali and a single mom at the time. Housing pulled 2100 out of my pocket that was supposed to cover electric and water etc. Next thing I know they wanted an additional 171 dollars for overages in electric. Which would have meant no AC for me…ever. We lived upstairs in a two bedroom apartment with p**s poor insulation and no double pane windows. The wholes for curtains were so big and filled with plaster than anything I tried to hang in front just pulled or fell right back out of the wall making the holes even bigger. When someone came to replace a plug cover I got a look at wiring that hasn’t been replaced since the 70s. But when I got there they were repainting the outside to make it look pretty. You can only polish a$#%&!@*so much. I was a Seabee…and that building had so many code violations it wasn’t even funny. But instead of helping and renovating the building to make it more energy efficient (because that’s why we were charged overages) they just pulled more money out of our pockets. I refused to pay unless the building was put back to code and made more energy efficient so they took it out of my last check.
I recieved 340 dollars in BAS…spent almost 400 in groceries every two weeks for just the two of us. However I was one dependent short to receive assistance.
The move from Gulfport to San Diego, cost me my house because I had shitty rentees. Yes my fault. I couldn’t take them to court because I had no money to fly back and forth.
As a disabled retired Veteran, my only income is VA disability and SSD. I elected disability pay over my retired pay because it is not taxable. However, I have to give my ex-wife half of my disability because federal law says if you were married for 8 years or more whole active duty then retire, your ex gets one half of your retired pay or what it would be from your disability pay. The military is the only ones this law pertains to. My doctors will not allow me to work nor could I. My ex works and lives very well. Oh, she gets my funds until she or I die. If she remarried, she still gets it. So, any little pay raise helps when you live on disability.
Remember the Republican, Tea Party led gov’t shutdown, which caused the sequestration? Well, that cut military spending drastically. A bill was introduced to take the retirees cuts out, but both Dems and Repubs voted against it. Blame it on Washington, all of ’em. You deserve what was promised to you from the US gov’t. Our gov’t has an issue with honoring agreements and treaties. Just ask the native Americans. Where has our sense of respect and honor gone……. Thank you for your service. I apologize for our gov’t. This needs to be fixed!
Oh vomit is a traitor.
How are they even standing behind this puke knowing where the lions share of what should be their pay is going
thats bs
Lol, this isn’t even true. The military has had the highest pay since the Reagan administration. Why not post content that is plausible, instead of fulfilling your demographic’s sense of hatred for Obama. I’m not for Obama, but I’m not for outlandish “news” sources either.
bastard needs to be hung