Smith Rejects Cuts to Military Families

HIXSON, MAY 11 – Following publication of comments by Defense Department officials suggesting that Congress reduce salary and benefits for military personnel or hold those benefits at current levels, Third District Congressional Candidate Robin Smith today pledged her efforts to ensuring that America’s military members will receive pay and benefits befitting their service in the United States Armed Forces.

“It should come as no surprise that the first place the Obama Administration is looking to reduce the reckless spending of the past year would be the pockets of the men and women fighting to defend our freedoms,” Smith said. “The president needs a new deficit commission to tell him where the wasteful pork spending is in his new social programs. He believes wasting our tax money on “stimulus” projects is a good idea, but seems to believe the soldiers, sailors and airmen who defend us each day are overpaid. President Obama has already slashed our ballistic missile defenses, sent the wrong message to America’s enemies by changing our nuclear deterrent posture and now has trained his sights on the wallets on our fighting men and women. Members of both parties should reject this approach.”