Not content with reducing military levels to dangerous and even suicidal plateaus of pre -WWII strengths but with cutting personal pay for military personnel who will put their lives on the line ad infinitum; Obama now plans as well on cutting the military retirement pension plans to involve personal contributions from their newly lowered rates of pay for their service.

I believe that little gambit of our Fuhrer is not going to be totally legal as it has always been my understanding that when military pay rates are being computed, there is an imputed deduction before applying the new levels. I hope someone of knowledge in these matters checks that out before a double dip deduction is damnably decreed by ‘der dictator’.

According to Investors Business Daily (IBD) online posting of March 14, 2014, “Obama Cuts Military Pensions, Exempts ObamaCare Subsidies” that is what will happen; i.e., “cut by 10 percent the military pensions of those who served their country while giving public employees a break by exempting their ObamaCare subsidies from sequestration.”

As IBD points out in their posting (see above) the cuts to the military are egregiously unfair because military retirees along with active duty military members being non-union, are not allowed to strike or even participate in collective bargaining. The labor unions cover public sector employees who will retain their union benefit plans. This could create a huge schism where military personnel who are theoretically on duty 24/7 and expected to put their lives on the line for their country will be considered less than second class citizens when compared to their civilian labor union co-workers, who enjoy the protections of strong and forceful labor unions while at work in the same proximities and under the same roofs.

So much for our government’s creation of incentives to recruit and keep men and women in our military branches of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Some of the military entry rank pay grades during compulsory service days (draft) were really ‘ultra’ low compared to public sector wages. But after years of earning barely ‘out-of-poverty’ pay levels, a compassionate America realized the value of our entry level military ranks who were the fodder from which our future leaders were chosen and pressured federal government leaders to loosen the purse strings for those who sacrificed so much for their country.

-SNIP-

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