Seems like Lindsey Graham thinks military retirees aren't paying enough for their healthcare. Nice.
Sure, there are benefits to serving your country: tax free shopping, free healthcare on active duty, generous retirement, and sometimes active-duty housing benefits. But military families give up a lot, too: limited autonomy in key life decisions, military salaries that are not comparable to analogous ones in the private sector, preventing you from retiring when you want, the possibility of being called back to active service after you've retired, and so forth.
But when my Dad joined up, free healthcare for life was what he was promised for himself and my Mom. And every few years, that promise gets whittled away. They don't phase it in, either- everyone gets hit by the same rule. The deal you signed up for when you enlisted gets unilaterally and retroactively rewritten...AFTER you already upheld your side of it.
If it were a civilian contract, it would be illegal.
Now comes this:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/...ust-pay-more-for-health-care.html?ESRC=dod.nl
When times are tough, even certain GOP candidates think everyone must adjust their belts. It's just that with policies like this, the little guys get to tighten theirs, while the guys at the top have to let them out because they're getting too snug...
If only there were a way the government could raise its revenues to pay for all the things it committed to do for "We the people"...
Sure, there are benefits to serving your country: tax free shopping, free healthcare on active duty, generous retirement, and sometimes active-duty housing benefits. But military families give up a lot, too: limited autonomy in key life decisions, military salaries that are not comparable to analogous ones in the private sector, preventing you from retiring when you want, the possibility of being called back to active service after you've retired, and so forth.
But when my Dad joined up, free healthcare for life was what he was promised for himself and my Mom. And every few years, that promise gets whittled away. They don't phase it in, either- everyone gets hit by the same rule. The deal you signed up for when you enlisted gets unilaterally and retroactively rewritten...AFTER you already upheld your side of it.
If it were a civilian contract, it would be illegal.
Now comes this:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/...ust-pay-more-for-health-care.html?ESRC=dod.nl
When times are tough, even certain GOP candidates think everyone must adjust their belts. It's just that with policies like this, the little guys get to tighten theirs, while the guys at the top have to let them out because they're getting too snug...
If only there were a way the government could raise its revenues to pay for all the things it committed to do for "We the people"...