{"id":39834,"date":"2014-02-16T07:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39834"},"modified":"2014-02-16T07:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T12:04:33","slug":"obama-restores-cuts-to-cola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39834","title":{"rendered":"Obama restores cuts to COLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that President Obama restored the planned cuts to future cost of living allowances for widows, retirees and disabled veterans yesterday when bills were flown to California for his signature, you know because he was on a golf weekend there.<\/p>\n

Separate legislation passed in December would have held annual cost-of-living increases for veterans age 62 and younger to 1 percentage point below the rate of inflation, beginning in 2015. The measure was designed to hold the line on the soaring cost of government benefit programs, which have largely escaped trillions of dollars in deficit cuts over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The cuts were enacted less than two months ago, with a projected savings to the government of $7 billion over a decade. Veterans groups and some lawmakers said the cut was a mistake, and they began campaigning to have the benefits restored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While it’s good that thy restored the reduction before it could affect anyone, the Congress and the president shouldn’t have done it in the first place. It just demonstrates that the politicians are more than willing to make the easy decisions to screw troops and take the politically expedient route rather than make the difficult choices which might endanger their own pay checks.<\/p>\n

It was the Veterans’ Service Organizations that got this issue the press that it deserved and, consequently, forced the change. The MOAA, The American Legion and the VFW have been very vocal about it in the past several weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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