You said "in the veto threat" and then said: Bush budget officials said the administration "strongly opposes" both the 3.5 percent raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, calling extra pay increases "unnecessary."
So you make it sound like oppose ANY raise while he suggested 3.0 % raise and they asked for 3.5. So he's only opposed to .5% but is NOT threatening a veto because of that. Seem he prefers to have a pay-for-performance raise over an across the board raise. I can't find any other details about it so don't know what to think. Just that you're misleading the facts. On 5/18/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > Did you spin this? > > The link you provide says something totally different. > > > > Here's what the Whitehouse said: > > "When combined with the overall military benefit package, the > president's proposal [3% raise, no increase in death benefits] > provides a good quality of life for service members and their > families" > > "While we agree military pay must be kept competitive, the 3 percent > raise, equal to the increase in the Employment Cost Index, will do > that." > > Pretty hard to make a pile of crap stink more. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235140 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
