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	Name:	4691 -
	Subject:	Military Pensions after 20 years service
	Date:	9/12/2011 1:39:09 PM

I think my main point is missed on this thread. I am a fiscal conservative. My personal definition of that is that I believe we should PAY today for what we SPEND today. NO EXCEPTIONS short of an unavoidable war. We should not continue to buy on long-term credit and make our children and grand-children pay for it. I don't care so much about the cost of the military retirement system as much as I care that it, like almost all government programs, is not adequately funded to cover future liabilities. I'd like to see the current pay increased for all active duty and especially their current benefits improved; not just for the smaller group that stay long enough to retire. But the cost of the military must be managed and controlled the same as any other expenditure. We should maintain a military that we can afford. Each government program is a sacred cow to some group out there. So with respect to military pension, there are some that will take the position that its worked well for over 100 hundred years as-is so there is certainly no reason to re-evaluate it; and there are others that believe it should be re-evaluated from time-to-time same as any other cost. I am in the latter group. MrHodja's last paragraph sums it up well in my opinion.

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Military Pensions after 20 years service - 4691 - 9/8/2011 11:30:50 AM

Military Pensions after 20 years service - MartiniMan - 9/8/2011 3:59:43 PM

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Military Pensions after 20 years service - MartiniMan - 9/9/2011 8:20:35 AM

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Military Pensions after 20 years service - MAJ USA RET - 9/10/2011 9:33:43 AM

Military Pensions after 20 years service - 4691 - 9/12/2011 1:39:09 PM

Military Pensions after 20 years service - Talullahhound - 9/13/2011 8:12:01 PM

Military Pensions after 20 years service - MAJ USA RET - 9/14/2011 2:47:48 PM

Military Pensions after 20 years service - MrHodja - 9/8/2011 5:13:39 PM

Military Pensions after 20 years service - Talullahhound - 9/8/2011 11:32:49 PM

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