{"id":20045,"date":"2010-08-07T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2010-08-07T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:32:59","slug":"defense-business-board-reduce-retirement-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20045","title":{"rendered":"Defense Business Board: reduce retirement benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hold on to your pension, military retirees, the Defense Department is coming for your checks as a way to cut expenses reports Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The 25-member group of civilian business leaders suggests that the Defense Department look at changing the current system, even hinting at raising the number of years troops must serve before being eligible for retirement pay.<\/p>\n

The current system \u201cencourages our military to leave at 20 years when they are most productive and experienced, and then pays them and their families and their survivors for another 40 years, committee chairman Arnold Punaro told board members at their quarterly meeting late last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So like I said years ago, somehow the only solutions the government ever comes up with to cut expenses are ways that they’d never let big business cut their expenses. Imagine what would happen to an automaker who discussed cutting union pensions. Or imagine the debate in Congress to cut their retirement benefits.<\/p>\n

Military retirees know how jealous civilians are of our retirement benefits…which, by the way, we earned. We weren’t handed these benefits for showing up one day, like a lot of SSI recipients. We ate yards of shit for years, lived like no civilian would ever tolerate to get those benefits, and now every time there’s a Democrat administration, we have to keep fighting for the meager rewards we earned.<\/p>\n

Of course, the real damage here would be retention. Who would want to work longer for less benefits like the Board suggests? They complain that the military loses experience at the 20-year mark. Who honestly thinks that the military would have higher retention with longer requirements for service towards retirement? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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