Democratic leader one-upps Obama's federal pay freeze. Steny Hoyer calls for military pay freeze!

[Better Believe It]

Hoyer Calls For Military Pay Freeze
By Jeremy P. Jacobs
November 29, 2010

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) one-upped Pres. Obama's proposed pay freeze on Monday, saying that military personnel serving outside of Afghanistan, Iraq or any other dangerous area should also be subject to the freeze.

"There has been parity between civilian and military pay raises for 22 of the past 28 years in which raises were authorized, and hundreds of thousands of Federal civilian employees work alongside military employees in the Department of Defense and other agencies," Hoyer said.

Obama's pay freeze is projected to save the government $5 billion in the next two years, $28 billion over the next five years and $60 billion over the next 10. That represents just a fraction of the current $1.3 trillion deficit.

Hoyer did not say in his statement how much more applying the freeze to military personnel would save the government.

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/11/hoyer-calls-for.php

And the race is on to see who can be the biggest deficit cutting hawks! BBI

[rocktivity]

1. I know how Obama can easily one-up Hoyer

Call for executive, legislative and judicial branch pay freezes, too!

:evilgrin:
rocktivity

[FarCenter]

2. How about a rollback for Congressional salaries?

Most Members of the House and Senators are millionaires. How about "means testing" their compensation?

[movonne]

5. YES....YES...YES...

[Better Believe It]

6. And next month call for pay, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts !

And that will certainly help pull the rug out from under Republicans who want to lead the campaign against "entitlements".

And extend the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires for two years!

That'll be even better!

[NoPasaran]

3. There seems to be an epidemic of brain freeze going around

Maybe they should get Gaddafi's nurse to check it out.

[NightWatcher]

4. Obama hates the military...the papers would all read

how about we say "Screw the 15,000 millionaires and billionaires and allow middle class and those getting shot at in Afghanistan and Iraq to be able to afford groceries"

[sinkingfeeling]

7. At least freeze the Pentagon and DOD civilan employees.

[Arctic Dave]

8. Sounds good to me.