Outgoing House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, says President Barack Obama’s move Monday to freeze the pay of civilian federal employees should apply to military personnel as well. To be sure, military and civilian personnel serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other life-threatening spots should be exempt, he says, according to The Hill.
An inclusion of the military would boost the savings and add “an element of fairness,” Hoyer says.
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"an element of fairness" I like that Steny baby. Its fair to be shot at, sleep outdoors, and to risk your life everyday while you have dozens of perks and a lifestyle that most cannot imagine. Hope you sleep real good tonight you hypocrit.
ReplyDelete10:23 I think you need to read it again. It says that those serving in life-threatening spots would be exempt.
ReplyDeleteI also read the article and while it is big of steny to think our military fighting wars should be excempt, I feel the entire military should be exempt - with the exeption of the higher paid postions. The military that may be home right now.....are just getting back from the war zone and will be going back very soon. Their families suffer so from being so far away from their loved ones, they deserve to get paid whether they are in the States or overseas. These men and women have chosen to give their lives for the country and they have my upmost resprect.
ReplyDeleteWe have a volunteer military, nobody forced anyone to join. The federal workforce is volunteer as well, if you don't like the pay in either job then you ever should have joined.
ReplyDelete4:12 could you be any more wrong?
ReplyDeleteonly military are voluntary, a small portion of the federal workforce.
music to my ears, keyword, OUTGOING majority leader. And, he's hardly a leader. his nose is so far into a certain colon, it isn't funny!