Stop Attacking Our Military

     The relentless assault by the Obama Administration against the U.S. military has endangered both the nation, and the nation's defenders.

       The  White House's proposed  $400 billion budget cuts over the coming twelve years falls in far too great a proportion on the Department of Defense.  The potential cuts are so severe that Admiral Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has actually suggested the possibility of cutting the pay and benefits of servicemen and women.  The problem is, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are already underpaid, and many live in substandard housing, at a time when they are being worked and deployed at an excruciating pace.

     Of course, far less dramatic cuts are threatened to a whole host of other programs that politicians hold dear;  programs that are little more than bribes to home district voters to shore up their re-election bids.

     At a Congressional hearing held on June 1, Democrats opposed the idea of making the unions representing NON-military federal employees pay for the time those employees spend on union activities, a reasonable cost-saving concept initiated by F. Vincent Vernuccio III of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.  However, those same Democrats have traditionally supported cuts in the defense budget that could lead to slashing the pay of our  service people, who, of course, are not unionized. The fact is, unions traditionally contribute heavily to the Democrats, and military personnel do not.  So the Democrat members follow the money, to the detriment of America's safety.  That's disgraceful.