{"id":19010,"date":"2010-05-07T06:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T11:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19010"},"modified":"2010-05-07T06:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T11:32:23","slug":"webb-military-pay-rising-at-disturbing-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19010","title":{"rendered":"Webb: Military pay rising at &#8220;disturbing&#8221; rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=69827\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>, Senator James Webb, armed services personnel subcommittee chairman, held a hearing on compensation for military members;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Webb opened the hearing by saying the cost of military personnel \u2014 including pay, allowances, non-cash benefits like health care and deferred benefits like retirement \u2014 &#8220;continues to rise at disturbing rates.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same guy that bulldozed his GI Bill through Congress &#8211; the GI Bill that made leaving the military more attractive than staying. The GI Bill that was so big that the VA still hasn&#8217;t been able to administer it properly yet after nearly two years to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s investigating whether military members are making too much money. Now, I know everyone loves the new GI Bill, and I&#8217;m not arguing for it&#8217;s repeal. What I&#8217;m saying is that it appears to me that Senator Webb is trying to hobble active duty retention using compensation. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny that Congress is investigating ways to save money through personnel compensation cuts after spending last year porking up the defense bill with systems the military said they didn&#8217;t need. I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Stars and Stripes, Senator James Webb, armed services personnel subcommittee chairman, held a &hellip; <a title=\"Webb: Military pay rising at &#8220;disturbing&#8221; rate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19010\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Webb: Military pay rising at &#8220;disturbing&#8221; rate<\/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":[89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010","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=19010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}