Carol Shea-Porter: “I was a military spouse and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with…”

“I was a military spouse and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country. The House of Representatives recognizes that service and called for a 3.5 percent increase in pay for the military. The President, who talks about supporting the troops, does not want that. He is strongly opposed to raising the pay of military families. How much does that really mean? For an E-4, it means $200 a year. $200 a year. The President provides $536 billion of tax breaks for the top 1 percent, and is unwilling to give $200 a year to an E-4. Seventy times what we are asking, seventy times, goes to the rich. It is time for the President to start supporting the troops instead of supporting the rich. I hope before Veterans' Day, the President changes his mind and agrees with the House of Representatives that our men and women in uniform deserve this pay.”