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Remember how the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey has been lobbying Congress hard<\/a> to reduce military pay raises, change the retirement system, hike retirees’ health care costs? Well, he’s finally found something that the Congress needs to continuing to fund; generals’ pensions and the little perks that go along with being a flag officer, according to USAToday<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff petitioned Congress last month to retain privileges for top officers that lawmakers are seeking to trim, including fattened pensions and the number of enlisted aides serving generals and admirals, according to a letter obtained by USA TODAY.<\/p>\n

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“Making modest reductions to the number of enlisted aides is a common sense reform that will help the Pentagon cut costs,” said Ethan Rosenkranz, national security policy analyst for the Project on Government Oversight, a non-partisan government watchdog. “It doesn’t surprise us that America’s most senior general is opposed to a smaller staff and more modest retirement package.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I know, I could hardly believe that he’s that much of a weasel-dicked prick, either. But there you go. I foresee a bright future for Dempsey in politics. Obviously he fits under most desks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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