Obama to Soldiers: Pay Up
Threatens to veto bill unless it hikes health care fees for service members
The Obama administration on Friday threatened to veto a defense appropriations bill in part because it does not include higher health care fees for members of the military.
“The Administration is disappointed that the Congress did not incorporate the requested TRICARE fee initiatives into either the appropriation or authorization legislation,” the White House wrote in an official policy statement expressing opposition to the bill, which the House approved in May.
President Obama’s most recent budget proposal includes billions of dollars in higher fees for members of TRICARE, the military health care system, and is part of the administration’s plan to cut nearly $500 billion from the Pentagon’s budget.
More gross news here:
Barack Obama may appear to be a liar and an incompetent failure, but he excels at the one essential skill required of all wouldbe dictators, the ability to manufacture a series of plausible pretexts he can use to rationalize his heartless tyrannies.
BO is definitely a liar. But now his hatred of the Military is is full view. And on top of that, I waould say it’s 50-50 if he gave the military a raise. Afterall, the military is just in it for the combat pay. NOT
[...] the First Street Journal, we find out that Obama wants our troops to pay higher health [...]
I just read this. Yesterday, a Reservist who has either served long enough to retire or is approaching that point, told me the Government dramatically raised his Tri-Care premium. He said it makes it almost worthless to retire from the Reserves, despite the plate in his head from wounds suffered in Iraq several years ago.