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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSo this fresh-faced fellow, Erik Katz<\/a>, who has never spent a day in uniform joins in with every other fucknut who thinks they know about military service and decides that he knows how to save the Pentagon from sequestration. Of course, his intellect is mud-puddle deep, so like all of the other dorks, goes straight to personnel cuts<\/a>;<\/p>\n The most significant compensation reduction option, CBO found, would come from cutting retirement pay for veterans already receiving disability payments from the Veterans Affairs Department. Prior to 2004, military retirees \u2014 former personnel with 20 years of service \u2014 had their retirement pay reduced by the amount of any VA disability compensation they also received. Moving back to that system would save Defense $108 billion over the next decade, according to CBO.<\/p>\n The non-partisan budget office said the current system compensates disabled veterans twice for their service, but the two payments reward \u201cdifferent characteristics of military service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We, in the business call it “concurrent receipt”, Erik, and it took decades to straighten that stuff out. What baby-face GWU-grad here wants to happen is veterans who are more than 50% disabled would be made to fund their own disability from their retirement pay because people who have a disability less than 50% already have their retirement pensions reduced by the amount of their disability payments.<\/p>\n You know what I would do if I was looking to save money for the government and I wanted to look like a smart guy (instead of throwing in with the rest of the hacks)? I’d stop trying to hammer the little guy. I’d write about how much money could be saved if we cut retirement benefits for Congress members. I’d figure how much could be saved if we cut costs on the lavish lifestyle of flag officers and their staffs. I certainly wouldn’t go after disabled veterans who can’t work and depend on every penny they get in return for their service and sacrifice. But, hey, how can I expect some pimple-faced, snot-nosed journalism student to understand what sacrifice means, right? Shame on me. <\/p>\n Oh, GFY, Erik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"