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Originally Posted by dc_dux
33% in six years?
Do you have a source on that?
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Pay raise: Like the House, senators favor a 3.5 percent military pay raise for 2008 vs. the administration's proposed 3 percent to match private sector wage growth as measured by the government's Employment Cost Index (ECI). The White House calls the extra half-percentage point unnecessary and notes that basic pay has jumped by 33 percent since 2001. The added cost of the bigger raise, $2.2 billion through 2013, is money "that would otherwise be available to support our troops," the OMB statement said.
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http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/...324/1009/rss04
If you look at all the other increases in special pays, more housing pay, bonuses, Bush is right in saying the .4% that doesnt go to the troops paychecks would be better spent in equipment and new technologies.