{"id":16982,"date":"2010-01-26T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16982"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:47:11","slug":"smaller-payraise-for-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16982","title":{"rendered":"Smaller payraise for troops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16569\">I wrote that retired military checks got smaller this year<\/a> compared to last year, despite the fact that our costs of living had risen &#8211; 2.7% the last six months of 2009 according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. Well, now it&#8217;s time for the active duty to shoulder their part of the White House budget, too, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=67539\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House will propose a 1.4 percent military pay increase in 2011, which if approved would be the smallest since the start of all-volunteer military in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>That figure represents a steep drop from the 3.9 percent boost troops saw earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials said the 1.4 percent figure, which will be included in the fiscal 2011 budget to be unveiled Monday, is based on projected private sector wage increases for next year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So even though the cost of living is increasing, the cost of living increases are decreasing. I think I said back in 2008 that the first people to bear the brunt of Democrat spending increases will be the military and retirees. I&#8217;m not prophetic, I&#8217;m just speaking from experience. Keep that in mind when you listen to the State of the Union Address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I wrote that retired military checks got smaller this year compared to &hellip; <a title=\"Smaller payraise for troops?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16982\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smaller payraise for troops?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}