Disabled Military Retirees Betrayed By Gutless Republicans
DECEMBER 21, 2013 BY
This
week, the Senate voted across party lines to pass a bill that would
reduce the cost of living adjustment (COLA) for military retirees,
including disabled retirees and survivors. The Washington Free Beacon reported that a provision in the Ryan-Murray budget agreement no longer exempts disabled retirees and survivors. The original agreement stated
that “This would not affect service members who retired because of
disability or injury.” After the bill passed the House, the new summary removed
the exemption granted to disabled retirees and survivors. It would be
too easy to accuse just one party of this chicanery; for remember, this
was a bipartisan effort endorsed by Mr. Obama.
Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been desperately trying to prevent the cut in
COLA for military retirees by advocating the halting of entitlements and
tax refunds for illegal immigrants. Sen. Sessions pointed out to
his colleagues that “It’s not correct, and it should not happen.” For
the Democrats, vets and spouses are easy targets, like stealing candy
from a baby on Christmas morning. Instead of cutting welfare benefits
and tax emptions to illegal immigrants and other entitlement abusers,
the GOP establishment and Democrats will gladly take the money from the
vets and families. They need the money to pay for the new budget while
leaving civilian employees’ and other (intentional) deadbeats’ COLAs
intact.
Technical Error?
Sen. Murray said “I want to make absolutely sure today that they know that a provision included in this deal that mistakenly included disabled retirees and survivors for changes in the pension growth will be addressed in short order following passage of this bill.” Her only mistake was that the bill wasn’t written in cursive, so the low information voter wouldn’t be able to read it. The omission had to be deliberate. It is too big a blunder to be a “technical error.” All amendments proposed to eliminate cuts were blocked by Democrats. Sen. Murray argued that any attempt to amend the deal was an effort by Republicans to kill the entire bill. The lying Murray knew all along.
Sen. Murray said “I want to make absolutely sure today that they know that a provision included in this deal that mistakenly included disabled retirees and survivors for changes in the pension growth will be addressed in short order following passage of this bill.” Her only mistake was that the bill wasn’t written in cursive, so the low information voter wouldn’t be able to read it. The omission had to be deliberate. It is too big a blunder to be a “technical error.” All amendments proposed to eliminate cuts were blocked by Democrats. Sen. Murray argued that any attempt to amend the deal was an effort by Republicans to kill the entire bill. The lying Murray knew all along.
Cowards
Republicans of both houses quickly caved in fear of another shutdown. They would rather screw the vets, like the ones who tore down the barriers during the Obama-orchestrated shutdown. The Democrats were only doing what they do best–retaliating against anyone who stands up to them. And the establishment GOP was too ready to join them. Instead of saying no, Congressman Ryan caved to well-known Osama bin Laden supporter Sen. Patty Murray.
Republicans of both houses quickly caved in fear of another shutdown. They would rather screw the vets, like the ones who tore down the barriers during the Obama-orchestrated shutdown. The Democrats were only doing what they do best–retaliating against anyone who stands up to them. And the establishment GOP was too ready to join them. Instead of saying no, Congressman Ryan caved to well-known Osama bin Laden supporter Sen. Patty Murray.
News
analysts have been debating that either the Republicans are too
shell-shocked from negative press, or they may actually agree with the
Democrats on cutting military retirement benefits to fund Obamacare for
the deadbeats. I tend to think the later; to quote Sen. John McCain, “We
cannot have continued increases in costs and benefits forever because
of our inability to fund our national security.” This will be the man
who will write the bill eliminating medical benefits for retirees,
spouses, and VA patients.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/disabled-military-retirees-betrayed-gutless-republicans/#T9gUylkdTMzsAPms.99
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