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Posts Tagged ‘military compensation’

  • Budget 2011: The Obama Five-Year Defense Budget Plan Is Worse Than a Freeze

    Posted February 1st, 2010 at 3:30pm in Protect America 1

    The Obama Administration has been quick to point out that it has exempted the defense budget from its proposed freeze on other elements of discretionary spending in its budget. While the Administration has announced in the budget that it is requesting a $33 billion supplemental appropriation for defense in the current fiscal year and [...] More

  • ‘Veterans for Welfare’

    Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 4:28pm in Entitlements, Protect America 31

    From the comments on the so called Webb GI Bill: I am an active duty military officer with multiple Iraq deployments and continuing an active duty career. It is time for veterans to be intellectually and philosophically honest and oppose this new brand of federal welfare sweeping through Congress in the name of patriotism and “serving those [...] More