VSOs push back on Defense budget

I hate Rick Maze, he’s the most dishonest reporter on the staff of Military Times, and he’s blocked my email address, the prick. But he wrote this article at Military Times on the American Legion’s and Military Officers’ Association of America’s concerns about balancing the federal budget exclusively on the backs of veterans. So if you read something that might sound opinionated in the article and it doesn’t have quotes around it, that means Maze made it up in his own mind then regurgitated it on to his monitor. I’ve dealt with that liar before;

“By increasing, and in some cases quadrupling, health insurance fees for military retirees, you are sending a powerful message to those in uniform and to their families that their decades of service and sacrifice are unappreciated,” said Fang Wong, the the Legion’s national commander, of the Pentagon’s plans for higher Tricare fees for working-age retirees.

Wong also said the Pentagon proposal to create a Retirement Modernization Commission to recommend changes in retired pay could “encourage people to leave the military for a safer and less demanding career in the private sector.”

Yeah, well, Commander Wong was in the room at the same time I was when President Obama told us to our faces that he wouldn’t balance the budget on the backs of veterans;

The president of the Military Officers Association of America called the proposed Tricare fee increases a “breach of faith” and accused the Pentagon of using “bait and switch” tactics because modest increases were approved last year and were believed to be the final word on changes.

Norbert Ryan, president of the more than 370,000-member MOAA, said Congress ordered last year that future Tricare enrollment fees be capped at no more than the cost-of-living increase in military retired pay, but now the administration is proposing massive fee increases to be phased in over five years.

Yeah, well, if all you’re going to do is sit back and snipe at the President in the media, you’re not going to get anything done. Be Dave Rehbein and stomp into the Oval Office and lay down the law. Filtering your message through partisan hack and known liar, Rick Maze, ain’t gonna help much either.

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