{"id":13951,"date":"2009-08-26T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13951"},"modified":"2009-08-26T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T18:32:47","slug":"what-economic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13951","title":{"rendered":"What economic problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ya know how folks are always saying that the only reason recruitment and reenlistments are so high in the military is because there’s a bad economy and fewer job opportunities – so the military doesn’t need to pay retention bonuses? In fact, retention bonuses were the first thing that Murtha targeted last December<\/a> when he started looking at military budget cuts.<\/p>\n

With an unemployment rate reaching 10%, Congress feels the need to pay bonuses to their aides, though according to Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A month after they voted to punish some corporate executives for taking hefty bonus payouts, members of the House of Representatives quietly gave their own staffers a new potential bonus by making even their top-earning aides eligible for taxpayer dollars to repay their student loans.<\/p>\n

The change, which took effect in May, means House employees earning up to $168,411, or the top level, are now eligible for government-funded subsidies to help pay down their student loans.<\/p>\n

House officials defend the change as a job-related benefit necessary to keep the government competitive in the hiring market – the same argument corporate chieftains used to defend their own pay scales. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can you imagine how tough it must be to make those college loan payments on a meager $188k pay check? It’s no wonder Congress thinks that people making $65k need government health care. <\/p>\n

But I guess Congress keeping some drone to fetch their over-priced coffee employed is more important than keeping that trigger-pulling buck sergeant whose troops would follow him into the bowels of Hell and back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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