The Daily Background
| Bush Administration illegally depriving troops of mandated pay raise
by Arlen Parsa
Check out an exclusive new piece I just wrote for The BRAD BLOG in which I reveal that the Bush Administration is illegally depriving our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan of salary increases mandated by law. No media organizations seem to have noticed this yet, and I discovered it through an in-depth investigation of the military pay that I’ve been working on for several days now. Here’s a teaser:
Recently the Bush Administration and Democratically-controlled Congress were at odds over how much to pay US soldiers serving in the most dangerous places in the world: Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress said that the troops should get a raise of 3.5%, while the Administration said any raise higher than 3% was not deserved. Administration officials even bluntly said the White House “strongly opposes” giving the troops that extra 0.5%.
Although Democrats have been arguing for the 3.5% raise, what neither they, nor any news organization seems to have thus far noticed, is that the Administration’s meager compensation plan would be, in fact, illegal.
Read the full article here.
