{"id":37355,"date":"2013-09-01T08:39:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37355"},"modified":"2013-09-01T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T12:39:32","slug":"what-a-surprise-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37355","title":{"rendered":"What a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The POTUS has ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20130830\/BENEFITS02\/308300036\/Obama-orders-1-percent-military-raise-January\">1% pay raise for members of the military in 2014<\/a>.\u00a0 This is substantially lower than the 1.8% pay raise that would normally be required by the Federal Pay Comparability Act.\u00a0 Congress was notified of the decision by letter last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In that letter, the POTUS stated that he&#8217;s \u201cstrongly committed to supporting our uniformed service members, who have made such great contributions to our nation over the past decade of war.\u201d\u00a0 I have to observe that ordering a pay raise just over half as large as called for by law seems to me a rather . . . interesting way of showing that kind of support.\u00a0 But maybe that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate letter to Congress, the POTUS also recommended that Federal civilian employees receive the same 1% pay increase.\u00a0 If approved by Congress, this would be the first annual pay raise received by Federal employees since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone surprised?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The POTUS has ordered a 1% pay raise for members of the military in 2014.\u00a0 This &hellip; <a title=\"What a Surprise\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a Surprise<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}