{"id":28751,"date":"2012-02-14T19:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28751"},"modified":"2012-02-14T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:39:54","slug":"sure-is-dirty-under-this-bus-aint-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28751","title":{"rendered":"Sure is dirty under this bus, ain&#8217;t it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cakmakli sends us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/02\/military-dempsey-would-pay-more-for-retiree-health-care-021412w\/\">Army Times article<\/a> which tells the story of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey who told Senator Lindsey Graham today that he&#8217;d sure like to pay more for his retiree health care than we&#8217;re paying now;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In response to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who asked whether he was willing to pay more, Dempsey said: \u201cI am, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed budget, a retired Dempsey would pay an $820 annual fee in fiscal 2013 to enroll his family in Tricare Prime. By 2017, that fee would rise to $2,048.<\/p>\n<p>If Dempsey hung up his uniform tomorrow, his 38 years of service would earn him annual military retirement pay of around $219,000 a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for sticking up for the rest of us who get about 10% of that for our retirement, ya wizened old dildo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking at a news briefing on the budget Monday at the Pentagon, Air Force Lt. Gen. Larry Spencer, the Joint Staff\u2019s force structure director, said the Joint Chiefs and senior enlisted leaders support the hikes and said the increases would still leave Tricare one of the most \u201cgenerous\u201d health care plans in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with the principles that guide our budget, they honor our commitment to America\u2019s all-volunteer force and their families,\u201d Spencer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why even fucking try anymore. If these peckerwoods stick up for us any more, we&#8217;ll be thoroughly screwed. Do they plan on charging us for our funerals, too? Fucking partisan whores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cakmakli sends us a link to an Army Times article which tells the story of Chairman &hellip; <a title=\"Sure is dirty under this bus, ain&#8217;t it?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28751\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sure is dirty under this bus, ain&#8217;t it?<\/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":[86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751","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=28751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}