MOAA defends military benefits to cost-cutters

The Military Officers Association had to explain to law makers what "earned by service and sacrifice" means but they should have understood this all along. This is what they were promised and what they earned. Any law maker forgetting what we owe to them should be forced to walk up to a combat veteran after his/her 3rd, 4th, 5th or more tour and explain why the government can't afford to take care of them if they need it. They should have to explain to a young wife after her husband was sent to Afghanistan with the National Guard unit again why she can't afford to take care of her family or why her husband won't have a job any more when he comes back home. Maybe they should have to tell a widow or a Mom how much the sacrifice of their solider meant to this country when the men he served with can't get what they need when they come home. Do you think these "law makers" would find it so easy to say that other law makers need to find the money to pay for it all first? This debt was owed the day they were sent into combat!

MOAA defends military benefits to cost-cutters

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jul 1, 2010 13:15:16 EDT

Current and former service members and their families understand the need for federal fiscal responsibility, but they don’t believe their benefits should be the first place the government looks when it tries to cut spending, a representative of a major military association told a federal budget commission.

Speaking Wednesday before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Steve Strobridge of the Military Officers Association of America said his organization “believes strongly that there is a fundamental difference between social insurance programs that are made available to every American, and programs such as military and veterans’ compensation that are earned by service and sacrifice to the nation.”
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MOAA defends military benefits to cost cutters