December 17, 2013

About the new budget - aid to disabled veterans

What were these people smoking. The new Murray/Ryan budget is draconian. It slashes funds for disabled veterans but greatly extends benefits to public-sector unions. From FOX News:
Senate GOP fails in final bid to restore military pension cuts to budget bill
A final effort by Senate Republicans to halt cuts to pensions of military retirees failed late Tuesday, after Democrats blocked an amendment to the controversial budget bill.

The two-year budget agreement, which cleared a key test vote earlier in the day, was expected to get a final vote no later than Wednesday.

Ahead of the final vote, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., tried unsuccessfully to use a parliamentary tactic to force a vote on the amendment, which he wrote to undo the cuts for military retirees.

A provision in the already House-passed bill would cut retirement benefits for military retirees by $6 billion over 10 years.

Sessions wanted to instead eliminate an estimated $4.2 billion in annual spending by reining in an IRS credit that illegal immigrants have claimed.
Emphasis mine. The illegals get $4.2 billion of government cheese to secure a bloc of Democrat voters. Our brave servicemen who have put their lives on the line to defend this country get a cut? These quislings disgust me. Posted by DaveH at December 17, 2013 8:16 PM
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