Pete
12-14-2014, 05:35
Commissary money restored, base tobacco prices rising
http://www.svherald.com/content/guest-columnists/2014/12/12/392656
"House and Senate conferees negotiating a package to fund the Department of Defense through September 2015 have protected commissary operations by restoring 90 percent of a planned $100 million cut.
Once again lawmakers thwarted a cost-saving initiative targeting military compensation and endorsed by the Joint Chiefs as a way to dampen personnel costs so more dollars can be spent on training, weapon buys and other readiness accounts being victimized by arbitrary “sequestration” cuts...."
Couple of points are made in this story.
1st - Both the R's and D's see the military budget as low hanging fruit.
2nd - In the war on tobacco you don't hear any talk of cutting that family of products from EBT Cards (not SNAP).
3rd - "...have protected commissary operations by restoring 90 percent of a planned $100 million cut...." A few more years of "...restoring 90 percent..." and you-re talking some serious cuts.
http://www.svherald.com/content/guest-columnists/2014/12/12/392656
"House and Senate conferees negotiating a package to fund the Department of Defense through September 2015 have protected commissary operations by restoring 90 percent of a planned $100 million cut.
Once again lawmakers thwarted a cost-saving initiative targeting military compensation and endorsed by the Joint Chiefs as a way to dampen personnel costs so more dollars can be spent on training, weapon buys and other readiness accounts being victimized by arbitrary “sequestration” cuts...."
Couple of points are made in this story.
1st - Both the R's and D's see the military budget as low hanging fruit.
2nd - In the war on tobacco you don't hear any talk of cutting that family of products from EBT Cards (not SNAP).
3rd - "...have protected commissary operations by restoring 90 percent of a planned $100 million cut...." A few more years of "...restoring 90 percent..." and you-re talking some serious cuts.