{"id":37577,"date":"2013-09-13T13:47:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37577"},"modified":"2013-09-13T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:59:11","slug":"here-it-comes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37577","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;here it comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got a whisper of this yesterday, but Greg sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20130912\/BENEFITS05\/309120021\/Obama-Changes-compensation-should-grandfather-current-troops\">The Army Times<\/a> which says that the President has authorized the Military Retirement and Compensation Modernization Commission to begin making recommendations him for an overhaul for military pay and benefits compensation;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Commission\u2019s recommendations for change must grandfather any currently serving members and current retirees in the current military retirement systems, but may allow current service members and current retirees the choice to change to your proposed retirement system,\u201d the letter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, so those of us who &#8220;got mine&#8221; feel better that they say they won&#8217;t change the current system? Well, read this;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the commission likely will have to recommend shrinking the current package to some degree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, of course, because they can&#8217;t balance the budget on the backs of veterans with recommendations that won&#8217;t be used for another 20 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>The intent here is clearly to destroy retention and readiness. How will a new retirement system improve national security, along with all of the other new bullshit coming out of this White House and pack of spastic colons? Are they planning to do the same for the retirement system in Congress &#8211; because that program needs some serious reform, too. Same with the retirement system for Presidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a whisper of this yesterday, but Greg sends us a link to The Army &hellip; <a title=\"&#8230;here it comes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37577\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;here it comes<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577","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=37577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}