Obama plans on cutting military pay raise in 2014...

It seems very inappropriate to inform Congress you are cutting military pay raises at the same time you are asking them for permission to put the military in harm's way. Of course we shouldn't be surprised. Obama really hates the military.

Via Newsmax:

President Obama has told Congress he will cap next year’s pay raise for U.S. military personnel at 1 percent instead of boosting pay by 1.8 percent as called for by a federal law.
The president’s move will negatively impact American combat troops scheduled to remain in Afghanistan through 2014.
The federal law says military pay raises must be based on the Employment Cost Index compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which ties military raises to private sector pay growth. Under that formula, military personnel should be getting a 1.8 percent pay raise beginning in January 2014, CNS News reported.
But the law also states that the president can inform Congress of an alternative pay adjustment “if because of national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, the president considers the pay adjustment which would otherwise be required by this section in any year to be inappropriate.”
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Shameful: Obama Has Top General Tell Troops in Afghanistan They May Not Get Paid (video)

President Obama and democrats clearly know there is enough money to pay the troops, interest on the national debt and social security. Where we would fall short is paying all the bureaucrats working at EPA, State department and other government agencies. President Obama would also have to delay the rest of the failed stimulus spending and 'so called' green energy projects. Is a shutdown starting to sound better?

Via Jack Hoft:

Public Divided on Pay Cuts For State Employees

Only 40% of adults favor a 10% across the board pay cut for public employees. Government has grown so large over the last few decades, almost everyone has a friend or relative on the public payroll.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 40% of Adults favor a 10% pay cut for all state employees to help reduce state spending.  Forty-one percent (41%), however, oppose an across-the-board pay cut like this.  Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure.  (To see survey question wording, click here.)

I think most Americans have trouble coming to grips with how overcompensated public employees are.

Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available. 

These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

When you combine wages and benefits, an average worker made $108,476 and that data is from 2008. A average worker in the private sector only made $69,928 combined.

Oh My! Media Matters Calls Rand Paul Claim Federal Employee's make Twice Private Sector False, But True

Federal employees make over twice what private sector employees do. The average federal worker takes home $123,000 in combined pay and benefits. Rand Paul made the claim on FOX News:


Liberals immediately tried to disprove this, but facts are facts and the average federal employees does make $123,000. After some mind-bending mental contortions. liberals are now trying to claim it is false because it is an apples to oranges comparison. In an article titled "Fox's "brain room" parrots Rand Paul's false talking points on federal pay", media matters quotes Politifact for support of their loony theory.

[I]t's important to understand that a big reason for the disparity is the different mix of jobs in the federal work force. It has more higher-paying white-collar jobs...

Liberals are arguing you can't compare federal job pay to private because federal workers have higher paying jobs. Doh!

Liberal Newsweek's Mickey Kaus has been forced to concede Rand Paul was right.