eaglethebeagle
09-29-2012, 02:04 AM
http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120228006-billions-in-cuts-for-troops.html#UreOCKILZdGKx67l.01
Obama Wants to Cut $12.9 Billion from TroopsLiberals defend the health care of teachers, unions, and illegal immigrants. But when it comes to the troops, they want to cut.
A proposal by the Obama administration would save $12.9 Billion by 2017 from the Tricare system.
From Fox News (http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/02/27/pres-obama-cut-health-care-troops)
http://www.reagancoalition.com/images/other/fox.pngThe proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon's $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.
"We shouldn't ask our military to pay our bills when we aren't willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. "We can't keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more."
Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120228006-billions-in-cuts-for-troops.html#qiiF6hMbWeLfFKXV.99
Obama Wants to Cut $12.9 Billion from TroopsLiberals defend the health care of teachers, unions, and illegal immigrants. But when it comes to the troops, they want to cut.
A proposal by the Obama administration would save $12.9 Billion by 2017 from the Tricare system.
From Fox News (http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/02/27/pres-obama-cut-health-care-troops)
http://www.reagancoalition.com/images/other/fox.pngThe proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon's $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.
"We shouldn't ask our military to pay our bills when we aren't willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. "We can't keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more."
Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120228006-billions-in-cuts-for-troops.html#qiiF6hMbWeLfFKXV.99