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FW:  FROM THE 9.12 PROJECT

Breaking News: Chairman JCS says ACTIVE DUTY PAY CUTS NECESSARY & VETERAN & ACTIVE SERVICES TO BE CHOPPED $1/2 TRILLION

 

UPDATE: June 6, 2011(D-day anniversary)


Mullen Says Pay, Benefit Cuts 'On the Table'


The Pentagon's top officer said Thursday that service members will likely see cuts in pay and benefits as the military plumbs its budget for nearly half a trillion dollars in savings over the next 12 years.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen warned against taking the "relatively easy" choice of cutting hardware while maintaining the increasing costs of paying and providing ongoing health care to troops and retirees.

"Two of the big places the money is, is in pay and benefits," Mullen told defense reporters at a June 2 breakfast meeting in Washington. "And so when I say all things are on the table, all things are on the table.".....

Read more at:
http://www.military.com/news/article/mullen-says-pay-benefit-cuts-o...

 

 

 

Healthcare Cuts Loom For 130,000 Vets, doctors and nurses and services pending cuts.

The House Bud­get Com­mit­tee recently announced plans to cut $6 bil­lion from VA Health­care for 1.3 mil­lion vet­er­ans who are in Pri­or­ity Group 7 and 8. Roughly 10 per­cent of these, some 130,000 vet­er­ans, will be forced out of the VA sys­tem with no avail­able alter­na­tives. Vet­er­ans from Group 7 & 8 have either a 0 per­cent service-connection or no service-connected rat­ing. While this does not mean the vet­eran is fit as a fid­dle, it does imply they do not need the amount of care needed for other vets. These vet­er­ans [already] pay co-pay and have incomes over $32,000 and net-worth under $80,000, depend­ing on geog­ra­phy. In other words, they aren’t dirt poor but cer­tainly not wealthy, either.

The Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office believes the U.S. can save $62 bil­lion over the next 10 years by remov­ing ser­vices for these vet­er­ans alto­gether. Accord­ing to the agency, 90 per­cent of the vet­er­ans in ques­tion have access to some form other health­care other than VA funded. How­ever, the CBO does not com­ment on whether the alter­na­tive health­care is afford­able.

Read more at Military.com

http://tinyurl.com/3jhx3au

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That sucks and is probably a ploy to justify increasing the Debt Limit.