Freeze Military Pay? Not so fast.

According to news reports, the "President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" has suggested freezing military pay, benefits and retirement acquirement for the next three years. In addition, they suggested raising out-of-pocket costs for medical care for service members, amongst dozens of other things. (See the full list of proposed military cuts, here)

I don't even want to begin how ludicrous this idea seems. We are talking about cutting pay and benefits to our nation's freedom fighters. The very people who fight for our right to speak, write, and read in English and get paid in AMERICAN dollars. Of course, we've screwed our troops out of so much already...health care, psychiatric treatment, body armor, even saying 'thanks'. Why not go and finish the job?


So, what is the suggested savings of all this? $200 billion by 2015. That's roughly $50 billion a year. I can think of a MUCH better way to reduce the federal deficit...

Start by cutting congressional salaries and allowances. With 435 members in the House - making roughly $175,000 each per year (averaging the Speakers and other leadership positions raised pay), and 100 Senators making roughly $175,000 a year, that equates to $93,625,00.00 PER YEAR. Over the next 5 years, to 2015, If we cut each members pay down to $125,000.00 each, that would be a savings of over $26 million PER YEAR, or almost $134 million by 2015.

Of course, why would Congress vote to reduce it's own pay? Would you?

Invasive Patdown or 3,000 dead?

You choose. Some random person in a huge airport gives you an "invasive" patdown, along with every single other person on your plane. Or - in favor of "civil rights" and not being "molested", we go back to the old system of metal detectors only.

This is how the "underpants bomber" was allowed to pass through TSA Security on Christmas Day 2009. Had he been able to detonate his "package", over 200+ people on the plane would have lost their lives, along with multiple people on the ground.

Let's forget about the argument that the TSA has become ineffective, because obviously we have not had a September 11th style attack since, and multiple attempted attacks have been foiled by airport security personnel and procedures.

However, in my view, many people have become complacent. Instead of allowing minor sacrifices in order to keep hundreds of people safe, they don't want some random person "touching their junk."

Lets face it people, these are people who will process hundreds if not thousands of people per day. They will most likely instantly forget your face, because they are just trying to do their job. They don't care about "feeling your junk" and, truth be told, they probably are just as uncomfortable giving you that invasive patdown as you are recieving it.

So, the next time you see a story on television about the "horrible invasive patdowns by TSA personnel", think about this...your one to two minutes of being frisked and being uncomfortable may save the life of you and every other person on your airplane.

....Or, You could always not even bother flying.