While visiting a noticeably small handful of Marines and their families at Hawaii's Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station, Obama delivered his media-tagged "Christmas Message to the Troops," telling them, "We still have some very difficult missions around the world — including in Iraq. The world is better, it's safer, it's more peaceful, it's more prosperous and our homeland protected because of you." There was no mention of the 1 percent annual hike in pay or the possibility of losing their commissary privileges.
The annual pay raises during the Obama Administration are minuscule when compared to the hefty raises signed into law during the Reagan years. Broken down by year, Obama has authorized: 2010 - 3.4%, 2011 - 1.4%, 2012 -1.6%, 2013 - 1.7%, 2014 - 1.0, 2015 - 1.0%. In the first full year of his presidency Reagan authorized raises ranging from 10% - 16.5% depending upon rank. From 1983 to 1989 raises varied from a 2% low to a high of 4.1%.
For illustration purposes only, an example of what a Pay Grade E-4 (Corporal/Petty Officer 3d Class/Senior Airman) with more than two years in service, but less than three years, has a base pay of $2,122.80 a month. While those serving in the Armed Forces are available and considered subject to immediate recall at any time, the same E-4 currently earns less than $3.00 an hour. Under the 2015 pay scale, a Pay Grade E-1 undergoing recruit training is paid roughly $2.14 an hour.
Other cost saving measures put forth by the Obama Administration were cited by the Marine Corps Times earlier this year, when the White House again cut the Congressionally mandated 1.8 percent pay raise down to a threadbare 1.0 percent. Seen by many military advocacy groups then ans now as yet another attack on the troops, Team Obama is also floating a "proposal to make troops pay an average 5 percent of their housing costs out of their own pockets. And proposals to eliminate the commissary subsidy — and increase consumer prices — at most domestic installations ..."
https://www.examiner.com/article/obama-authorizes-1-pay-raise-for-military-commissaries-still-face-shut-downs
We should not just point our fingers at this lame president that
is a constant act of Treason, but at the Congress, Senate, House
Speaker, and all the liberal voters that placed us at this gross
disadvantage; this has been going on now for too long, mediocre care of
our Veterans, cut backs on our Military and their pay, as well as the
ROE's, they have had to contend with under the Obama Administration!
This will never end till we the Patriots decide that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
and put a stop to this BS!!! 
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