30 Reasons in 30 Days to Vote for Donald Trump – #11 Obama’s Disrespect for the Military and Vets

Guest post by Joe Hoft

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As we count down to the November 8th election, we will list 30 reasons in 30 days to vote for Donald Trump for President of the US.

Reason #11 – Obama’s Disrespect for the Military and Vets

Obama’s disrespect and dishonor for the military and veterans is appalling. He has consistently cut the military’s pay:

While shouting that the minimum wage for illegal aliens working at McDonalds should be $15 an hour, President Obama used a loophole in the US Code deter a pay raise to the military.  The lower pay increase translates to a Pay Grade E-4 (Corporal, Petty Officer 3d Class, Specialist 4, Senior Airman) with less than three years in service will earn less than $3 an hour. Under the 2016 pay scale, a Pay Grade E-1 undergoing recruit training will be paid roughly $2.15 an hour.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 340,000 veterans received public money for housing in 2013. And, 900,000 veterans lived on food stamps. About 5,000 active duty troops were also receiving food stamps. 

Obama had no problem cutting military pay while keeping unionized workers’ pay untouched.  He also had no problem cutting solders’ pay even while they were serving on the front line.

It is also no surprise that Obama’s spending on the military is at record lows.  The US spent more on defense in the Reagan years at about $1.1 trillion annually, on average.  It was $917 billion annually during the Carter years and $761 when George W. Bush was in office.  Obama proposed lowering military spending to $610 billion per year starting next year.  Defense expert Justin Johnson said, “As a percent of government spending or total economy, the US has not spent so little on national defense since the end of World War II.”

The problem with Obama saving money on defense is that the US is becoming weaker militarily while the world becomes less safe. Also, it’s shocking to see overall government spending going up while the military spending is so drastically cut.

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Everything Obama did was a slam on the military. Perhaps nothing more backstabbing than to set 5 of the most evil terrorists in Guantanamo Bay free in exchange for a soldier who went AWOL and who soldiers died trying to find and save.

Finally, Obama’s care for our vets, especially wounded veterans is also dreadful. 

Problems within the VA continue unabated. An internal VA audit has found that the secret waitlists occurred not only in Phoenix but at 110 VA facilities. VA officials still haven’t corrected a computer system error that led to tens of thousands of combat vets being denied VA health care enrollment, although the problem was brought to light in August.

Donald Trump on the other hand skipped a debate during the primary season and raised $6 million for veterans instead. Of course the media, rather than praising him for his efforts, twisted the entire issue.  Trump called one of these media ‘sleezy guys’ out for his shameful attacks during a Trump press conference.

Trump will treat the military and veterans with the respect they deserve. Obama doesn’t and Hillary won’t.

See also –

Reason #12 Obama’s Massive $20 Trillion Debt
Reason #13 Obama-Clinton Created ISIS
Reason #14 Trump Loves New Media – New Media Loves Trump
Reason #15 Obama’s Abysmal GDP Growth Rate
Reason #16 Trump – The Law and Order Candidate
Reason #17 Trump’s America First Trade Strategy
Reason #18 Hillary’s Attack on the 2nd Amendment
Reason #19 The Candidate’s Children and Abortion
Reason #20 Obama-Clinton’s Libyan Catastrophe
Reason #21 Obama’s 94 Million Jobless Americans
Reason #22 The Trump Train
Reason #23 Bill Clinton’s a Rapist
Reason #24 Obama-Clinton’s Absurd and Dangerous Iran Deal
Reason #25 Obama’s Food Stamp Nation
Reason #26 Vince Foster and Filegate
Reason #27 Beautiful Melania Trump
Reason #28 Obama’s Historical Low Home Ownership Rates
Reason #29 Syrian Quagmire
Reason #30 Whitewater

 

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Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. In 2023, The Gateway Pundit received the Most Trusted Print Media Award at the American Liberty Awards.

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