citizens and interests around the world.
• Defense funding must fully support personnel Quality of Life initiatives, troop end strength requirements, and needed weapons systems development and replacement programs. • Halt development and/or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction while continuing to develop and deploy a ballistic missile defense system to protect the U.S. and our allies. • Secure U.S. borders, shorelines and all ports of entry against foreign nationals’ intent to harm us.
POW/MIA
• Achieve the fullest possible accounting of U.S. military personnel missing from all wars. • Ensure U.S. government keeps the POW/MIA a fully funded, high national priority.
America’s war-fi ghters, and we must continue to fi ght against these toxic proposals:
1. Increase healthcare premiums for military retirees on TRICARE. 2. Increase pharmaceutical fees for troops, families and retirees. 3. Eliminate presumptive service- connected conditions for disabled and ill veterans. 4. Lock out or increase fees for Department of Veterans Affairs Priority Groups 7 and 8 veterans. 5. Reduce cost-of-living allowances. 6. Freeze military pay.
7. End government subsidies to military commissaries.
8. Eliminate Department of Defense elementary schools stateside. 9. Eliminate the 20-year military retirement plan.
10. Eliminate DOD tuition reimbursement programs for service members.
“NO 10 FOR 10”
“NO 10 for 10” sums up critical decisions now under consideration to make drastic changes to veterans’ entitlements. Recently, defi cit hawks have called on Congress to cut 10 specifi c military and veterans’ quality of life benefi ts to pay for the last 10 years of war. This is a breach of faith with
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