They have to get the money for the tax cuts from the rich somewhere.
The Bush admin is shaking hands with the military with one hand while stabbing them in the back with the other.
So…is this a good idea? Is there really no room in the pentegon budget for this?
Of course there’s money. It’s just one more sign of how they really feel about our brave soldiers.
You’ve been beaten to it:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=204598
yawn
So it’s ok by you that Bush sends our soldiers in harms way then jerks money out from under them?
When did you serve in a foriegn war serving your country?
This will damage troop morale. Damaging troop morale gives aid and comfort to the enemy. I say that Rumsfeld is guilty of treason.
Well there isnt that much morale to damage with the number of casualties “out of war”.
All this to cut PART of a $25 million a month cost ?!! hahaa… this is pathetic. $225 per soldier. (Or should I say per target ?) This stinks of disrespect. Amazing that Bush would lose votes this way.
Well I suppose Toy Soldiers arent as important as tax cuts…
Try to be fair in your appraisal of it. Those allowances come out of the military’s overall budget. I noticed nobody saying, "Hey, some Soldiers still have to live in ‘temporary’ barracks that were put up before World War II!’ " But, I guess it’s better to keep those nifty little anti-Bush agenda items separate so as to not show what’s really going on with the complaints about the guy.
This posting brought to you by a Republican who voted for his opposition in the last election and will vote for his opposition in the next.
This is good news. Maybe these guys won’t vote for Bush in 2004. Assuming that there will be an election. I hear the Statue of Liberty is the planned target for an October Surprise terrorist attack.
Washington – The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style attacks, homesickness and 120- degree-plus heat.
Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress returns after Labor Day, the uniformed Americans in Iraq and the 9,000 in Afghanistan will lose a pay increase approved last April of $75 a month in “imminent danger pay” and $150 a month in “family separation allowances.”
_____ Ha! Do you all have the brains of a zebra?.. WANNA BET? __ 
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Just for the record: Family Separation Pay is not paid to Servicemembers who have no dependents unless said Servicemember without dependents is married to another Servicemember who is not deployed in the same theater of operations.
Another thing is that one would suppose that “imminent danger” is lessened if the opposing army no longer exists.
What’s that shrill sound?
Must be Reeder shrieking as he kneejerks his way into another Bush-hate frenzy.
Before you follow the party line fed you by the newspaper, maybe you should learn the requirements to GET the pay which is being changed…
MONTY- Thanks for your information on FS Pay.
Don’t have a cite, but the SJ Merc reported today that this issue is dead. That the Pentagon has no intention of reducing pay for soldiers.
Yeah, check the other thread. It was a dead issue before it began.
For God’s sake, at least try to complain about something real. Anyone who follows politics and thought this would last longer than the time it took to kill it doesn’t follow politics.
Surprise, surprise! Reeder chalks up another one.
His shrill shrieking has morphed into a sad bleating…
So, does anyone here think this will completely forgotten come election time? (Sadly, it probably will, but that’s another matter.)
I’m one person who hopes that such a huge voting block vividly remembers this slap in the face to our soldiers.
I still don’t see how it’s such a slap in the face & I’m military myself. There are numerous programs which, if cut completely or cut back due to budget concerns, that people will call “slap in the face” to our military. The opposing armed forces supposedly were eradicated and thus the level of danger should be lower now than when Hussein was still in power.
Just FTR: Which programs should be cut to preserve the level of this one? Would you have the Services scale back on childcare (and then say, "the Administration doesn’t care about the Soldiers’ families!)? How about housing allowances? Or even travel allowances?
I think one program that can, and should, be cut straight away is the FSA, especially the FSA to joint-military couples with no other family members (formerly called dependants).
What’s to remember? Someone leaked a bad idea by the Pentagon and it got squashed. Nothing happened.
Exactly. Run it up the flagpole and watch it get shot down.