{"id":21443,"date":"2010-12-08T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21443"},"modified":"2010-12-08T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:55:40","slug":"lowest-military-payraise-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21443","title":{"rendered":"Lowest Military Payraise in 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Drudge a link to a piece by Jack Cafferty <a href=\"http:\/\/caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/12\/07\/lowest-pay-raise-for-military-in-nearly-50-years\/\">over at CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration has proposed a 1.4 percent pay raise for the military in 2011 \u2013 the lowest since 1962, when they got no raise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this is CNN after all&#8230;&#8230;who&#8217;s to blame for the meager raise?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As our government plans to extend tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, they&#8217;re also proposing the lowest pay raise for the military in almost 50 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s the evil rich people&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s estimated that an increase from 1.4 to 1.9 percent would cost taxpayers $350 million next year \u2013 compare that to the tax break deal which some say will cost $900 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s that much change in the ashtray of the stimulus bill if the President wanted to bump up the raise but hey, don&#8217;t let that change the narative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Drudge a link to a piece by Jack Cafferty over at CNN The Obama administration &hellip; <a title=\"Lowest Military Payraise in 50 Years\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21443\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lowest Military Payraise in 50 Years<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443","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\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}