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Although the 2015 budget falls within the $496 billion budget cap imposed by Congress, the Pentagon’s budget plan for the next five years would exceed those ceilings by $115 billion. 

Unless those ceilings are raised, Pentagon officials said deeper cuts would be made, including reducing the Army’s active duty size to 420,000 troops.

 

Who in Congress is demanding these deep cuts? Not the President. 

 


 

 

Looks like you are as uninformed as Chaney...

 

CHENEY: They peddle this line that now we’re going to pivot to Asia, but they’ve never justified it. And I think the whole thing is not driven by any change in world circumstances, it’s driven by budget considerations. He’d much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops.

What Cheney apparently doesn’t realize is that many of the same troops that he claims the Obama administration doesn’t support rely heavily on the food stamps that he wishes to cut. A Defense Department review released last year showed that military families were more reliant on food stamps in 2013 than in any previous year, with over $100 million in food stamp spending at military grocery stores. “Food stamp usage at the stores has more than quadrupled since 2007 as the recession compounded the already difficult financial situation faced by military families,” ThinkProgress’ Deputy Economics editor Alan Pyke wrote last week.

Despite his experience in first the Pentagon and then the White House, Cheney also seems unaware that many of the troops he supports depend on the same food stamp program once they leave military service. “Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote in a recent analysis. Given the high unemployment rate among post-9/11 veterans — 9.7 percent for those who served when Cheney was in office — it’s unsurprising that many of them need assistance from the government to help make ends meet.

And in spite of the large number of former servicemen and women that count on the program, Cheney’s Republican colleagues are still fastidiously attempting to skin it to the bone. As of last November, thanks to House Republicans’ demands, veterans saw along with their fellow beneficiaries a cut of $36 a month for a family of four to $11 a month for a single person. The result: food stamps now average less than $1.40 per person per meal. Given just how sparse benefits were, at just $133 a month on average before the cut, Cheney’s protestation against Obama for wanting to provide more to those who have served comes across as somewhat unseemly.

Originally Posted by HIFLYER2:
Originally Posted by direstraits:

To be fair, lower ranked, married troops have qualified for food stamps since about 1970.

Yes and it's a sad thing and my opinion should be fixed.

 

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And when they signed up to enter the military, did they not know what their pay would be?

Considering the lowered standards for eligibility for military service, many of our troops are probably fortunate to be able to collect both a paycheck and food stamps.  That paycheck, for many of them, is more than they could get in the private sector.

 

We now have rape running rampant in the military and Air Force ICBM.staffs cheating on their training and generals being canned for  failure to sa***uard nuclear devices--all this in a military often and ignorantly praised as the finest this nation has ever had. 

Originally Posted by Contendah:
Originally Posted by HIFLYER2:
Originally Posted by direstraits:

To be fair, lower ranked, married troops have qualified for food stamps since about 1970.

Yes and it's a sad thing and my opinion should be fixed.

 

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And when they signed up to enter the military, did they not know what their pay would be?

Considering the lowered standards for eligibility for military service, many of our troops are probably fortunate to be able to collect both a paycheck and food stamps.  That paycheck, for many of them, is more than they could get in the private sector.

 

We now have rape running rampant in the military and Air Force ICBM.staffs cheating on their training and generals being canned for  failure to sa***uard nuclear devices--all this in a military often and ignorantly praised as the finest this nation has ever had. 

You know at least they are working for it and not sitting home collecting a check and creating additional dependents.

I hope we have some statesmen somewhere that will demand the following things for this budget to pass.

The IRS, EPA, whitehouse staff and secret service will have the same percentage of cuts or more to their budget and staff.

Retired senators, congressmen and presidents who recieve retirement, will recieve the same retirement benefits as the lowest retired military.

Senators, congressmen and the president will have the same premiums, deductibles and copays as the members of the military.

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