Rep. Patrick Murphy on Debt and Troop Pay Raises

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Rep. Ike Skelton has two sons in the military? Yikes!

Rep. Murphy:
“But the fact is, is that those privates who are making $17,000 a year, those privates that are leaving their wives, their kids at home, many of whom have to survive on food stamps, those privates who saw what we did in the defense bill, who said that’s great, 3.5% pay increase, not even $1,000 more a year, a couple hundred dollars a year, the President of the United States said, private, ‘Thank you for your service to your country, but that’s too much of a pay increase.’ Mr. Speaker, I hope the people at home are watching. The President of the United States said a couple hundred dollars more a year to a private making $17,000 a year is too much.”

[SeattleGirl]

1. Thank you so much for posting this. I heard a clip of this today on

Rachel Maddow's show, and was very moved.

This issue, along with the lack of equipment, repeated deployment of troops, bad food, bad water, not enough food or water, etc., just tears my heart out. And it sickens me, too, that Bush and his cronies will use the men and women of this military, not only to fight an illegal wary, but as props for photos, and run around saying THEY support the troops, but people like me don't, and then turn around and say a 3.5% pay increase is TOO MUCH.

It's abominable.