{"id":21530,"date":"2014-01-11T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21530"},"modified":"2014-01-11T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T20:08:31","slug":"please-remember-this-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21530","title":{"rendered":"Please Remember This In November"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday the Washington Free Beacon<\/a> reported that Senate Democrats<\/a> on Thursday<\/a> blocked a Republican attempt to restore military<\/a> pensions cut in last month\u2019s budget deal. The Democrats denied a vote on an amendment that would have ended the loophole that allows illegal aliens to obtain millions in tax refunds and restored the cuts to military pensions.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Among them (the Republican Amendments)\u00a0 was Ayotte\u2019s (Sen. Kelly Ayotte<\/a> R., N.H.) measure<\/a>, which would repeal cuts to military pensions by ending a loophole in the tax code that allows illegal immigrants to receive the Additional Child Tax Credit<\/a>. Her attempt to get a vote failed 42-54, with only one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin<\/a> (W.Va.), voting with Republicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day when a common sense amendment to responsibly pay for legislation that helps struggling Americans, repeals unfair military retirement benefits and reduces the deficit can\u2019t even get a vote in the Senate,\u201d Ayotte said<\/a> in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The amendment would have repealed a provision<\/a>\u00a0in the budget deal that hits military retirees with a 1 percent decrease in their annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), which could cost servicemembers up to $124,000<\/a> in lost retirement pay. Federal civilian retiree pensions were not cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The budget agreement also did not exempt\u00a0disabled military retirees<\/a> despite early assurances from the House Budget Committee<\/a>. The cuts will save an estimated $6 billion over 10 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were no cuts made to the pensions of either Congress<\/a> or civil service employees. Civil servants have unions–the military does not. Cutting military retirement pay is a disgrace.<\/p>\n

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