{"id":39972,"date":"2014-02-23T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39972"},"modified":"2014-02-23T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:23:34","slug":"hagel-to-beg-for-personnel-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39972","title":{"rendered":"Hagel to beg for personnel cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

AW1Ed sends us a link from Fox News<\/a> that reports Chuck Hagel, the Secretary of Defense is going to Congress tomorrow to beg for massive cuts to personnel costs in the Defense Department, including cutting the growth of pay, increases in retirees’ out-of-pocket healthcare costs and cuts to housing allowances. I don’t see any other department heads lining up in front of Congress to slash personnel costs in their particular departments. But, there’s Hagel, the former enlisted soldier, begging Congress to screw the shit out of his employees.<\/p>\n

“This is a real uphill battle with Congress,” said Mieke Eoyang, a former Democratic congressional aide and director of the National Security Program at Third Way, a centrist think tank in Washington.<\/p>\n

“God bless [Mr. Hagel] for trying to get a handle on these costs,” she said. “But in this political environment, in an election year, it’s going to be hard for members of Congress to accept anything that’s viewed as taking benefits away from troops.”<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials say that they recognize the political realities, but emphasize that declining military spending makes trimming costs even more important this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, God Bless Hagel for screwing his troops, the little weasel. But, not to worry, Hagel is going to request a freeze to those six-figure general officers’ pay for a whole year, so they will be seen as sacrificing along with their troops [insert eye roll here]. I wonder if any of those civilians who are driving hard to the boards for military pay cuts are offering up their own salaries and benefits to the budget axe.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine the EPA administrator or the Education Department director making a plea like this to Congress? To slash the pay of the stank-ass hippies who work in those agencies? Or in this foundering economy, the Executive Branch asking for smaller COLA increases? Or Congress planning to reduce their personnel costs? Seriously. Why do Americans think it’s perfectly fine to screw the troops, but leave the useless bureaucrats untouched?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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