Military Pay In Play In Game Of Political Poker -- CNN
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(CNN) -- The showdown over who will bear the brunt of deep cuts to government spending has become a game of political poker with the nation's troops caught in the middle, political experts and members of the military say.
As he prepares to leave office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sounded a dire warning about the need to limit military pay to a 1% increase in 2014, effectively decreasing troop salaries next year, if the automatic cuts, called sequester, go into effect, an agency official told CNN.
"This shadow, the shadow of sequestration, this legislative madness that was designed to be so bad, so bad, that no one in their right mind would let it happen," Panetta said in a speech at Georgetown University on Wednesday.
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My Comment: Forgot about getting your pay cut, there is even talk that if sequestration happens the US Army may not be able to meet it's own payroll. Add insult to injury .... federal workers have been given a pay increase.
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