{"id":21593,"date":"2014-01-17T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21593"},"modified":"2014-01-17T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:07:36","slug":"we-the-people-need-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21593","title":{"rendered":"We The People Need To Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, MilitaryOneClick.com<\/a> posted the following:<\/p>\n

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Grassroots Efforts to Repeal Bipartisan Budget Act<\/a><\/h1>\n

16th January 2014 0 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Making it in the MilLife\u00ae<\/b><\/p>\n

Grassroots Efforts to Repeal Bipartisan Budget Act<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Jan 15 2014<\/p>\n

Published by Karen<\/a><\/p>\n

A provision in the Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) that reduces working age retirees\u2019 annual cost-of-living adjustment<\/a> (COLA) by one percentage point until the age of 62 has evoked outrage in the military community.\u00a0To date, over 250,000 MOAA suggested messages have been sent to Congress<\/a> on this issue alone.<\/p>\n

Leading the grassroots<\/a> efforts is the #KeepYourPromise Alliance. The alliance started on December<\/a> 14, when various military organizations pulled together a grassroots campaign stating \u201cenough is enough\u201d to the continual military benefit cuts targeted by legislators seeking to balance the national budget<\/a>. MOAA participated in a Twitter<\/a> Town Hall that took place on December 16, quickly generating over 44,327 tweets. A second Twitter Town Hall and Facebook<\/a> Spreecast took place on January 7th<\/sup> generating almost 10,000 tweets and nearly 6,000 Facebook views.<\/p>\n

\u201cMOAA strongly supports the groundswell of grass roots activities currently serving and retired military families are taking part in to voice their outrage about the COLA cut in the 2013 Bipartisan Budget Act,\u201d MOAA President Vice Adm. Norb Ryan, USN<\/a> (Ret) said.\u00a0\u201cThey also correctly surmise that this step is only the beginning, and that if they don\u2019t speak up now, more attacks on the All-Volunteer Force<\/a> will surely be easier to accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n

To join the social media action, visit and \u201clike\u201d the MOAA Spouse on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or follow us on Twitter @MOAA_MilLife.<\/a><\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/militaryoneclick.com\/grassroots-efforts-to-repeal-\u00a0\u00a0 bipartisan-budget-act\/#sthash.8nlRIYv8.dpuf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The omnibus budget bill passed by the House and the Senate is a breach of contract with the American military<\/a>. Our military has been fighting wars overseas for the past twelve years–this is how we reward them. It is a shame that the only budget cuts in this budget are to military retirement–there are no other budget cuts until later years, when Congress will probably repeal them.<\/div>\n
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It’s time for Americans to speak out on behalf of our military. There should be some serious outrage about this bill.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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