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Sept. 17, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
26:49
Will Biden Veto Pay Raise for Military Over Tranny Rights and PC Equality?
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Because I think that, now this is just my opinion and I could be an idiot for saying this, but I believe that if you are an individual who successfully completes your obligation, whatever obligation it was that you made to the United States military, there are things that should not be as big of a problem for you as they are others.
There are some things that you should be exempt from.
And I don't believe that soldiers are exempt from some of these things.
And maybe it's unavoidable, and maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part.
But that's just where my opinion lies.
But let's continue on, Don, here.
This is the last paragraph of the article.
The White House also raised concerns about the bill creating a pay compression in some areas of the enlisted military basic pay table, removing an important incentive for enlisted members to seek increased responsibilities and earn promotions at the grade of E6 and higher, which will harm military readiness.
And so, therein lies the rub, right?
The White House thinks that if we pay the soldiers more, they're not going to be as motivated to continue to climb the ladder.
They're not going to be as motivated to seek out more responsibility, which will get them promotions, which will give them A bigger paycheck and more experience and more things to build their resume when they decide to leave the military.
And I think it's crap.
I think that's bullshit.
I'm going to tell you this.
I drive a Dodge Ram pickup truck.
Right?
A 21-gallon gas tank.
It cost me like $104 the other day to fill up my truck.
Now, if I'm a E5, if I'm a soldier, and I'm making $2,800 a month, When I'm married and I got two kids or one kid, I still gotta buy groceries.
I still gotta pay my bills and all that stuff.
I guess what I'm getting at is that the motivation for soldiers to keep climbing the ladder if they want to make a career out of the military is not going to go away because you give them a pay raise.
Just not.
It'll make them a little more comfortable.
But nobody's, like we said before, nobody's getting rich.
Nobody joins the military to get rich.
Life is expensive.
Everything's expensive.
I just bought dog food for my dog.
I have a 98 pound Bernadoodle.
This stuff is expensive.
Poor guy.
I saw the price of dog food and I went, man, we're going to have to cut back on Gus's daily intake.
Which you can't do, right?
I mean, you've got to feed the dog what the dog needs to eat.
And so you're left without a choice.
And so...
I don't understand this mentality that if we throw the soldiers a bone, they're gonna just stop working.
I don't get that.
I don't understand that mentality.
I seem to think that if you throw the soldiers a bone, they're gonna work harder for you.
They're gonna train harder.
They're gonna be more proficient.
They're gonna be The consummate professionals that we want them to be when it matters the most.
But we can't just operate under this assumption that if we do A, then we're not going to get B out of these guys and gals.
They're just going to stop doing what they do.
And it all comes down to this, like we've talked about before.
If passing this bill and providing a pay raise to soldiers is not just about LGBTQ issues, marriage equality, abortion rights, and those things that we talked about maybe should go in the, "Hey, this is HR, we're gonna fight about this over here, Bill."
Why, I mean, why is that so hard to understand?
I just don't get it.
I got to tell you, it puts me at a loss for words.
Because what I want to do is cuss.
I just want to start cussing folks out that aren't even sitting in front of me.
Because it doesn't make any sense.
And then I think that all these folks just think that we're going to just take what they have to say and go, okay, yeah, well, you know, do what you got to do.
You know, you were elected.
So somebody must want you to be doing this stuff if, you know, I mean, you were put there for a reason.
When the reality is that I think...
These people are out to save their own necks.
And there's an election season just starting.
And all these people may be thinking about whether or not they're going to be reelected.
But here we are again.
The soldiers are paying the price.
As if they don't pay enough already.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
What else do these men and women owe this country?
What is it?
What have they done to deserve not being thrown a bone?
To make life off duty a little easier?
If we made it a little easier to go home and be comfortable for 12 hours a day or 10 hours a day or whatever it is, that might just be a motivating factor for these folks to work harder, to climb that ladder, not stop working.
I just don't see it.
But we can certainly, facetiously, of course, I'm going to say this, but we can certainly spend billions and billions of dollars on the war in Ukraine that we have no business being a part of.
There was talk that there's not enough money to fund this pay raise.
Well, We have money to fund weapons for the Ukraine.
We have money to fund humanitarian aid for the Ukraine.
We have money to send soldiers to somewhere over by the Ukraine to be ready in case they're needed or to train other soldiers that may not be as proficient As we are at their jobs.
There's money to do all of that.
But there's no money for the troops.
There's no money for the veterans.
And it's not just money to put in their pockets.
It's just money to pay their bills.
To send their kids to a great school.
Because I'll tell you one thing.
My wife and I are, at the end, my kids are grown or pretty dang close to it.
If we had small kids, we already discussed it, they would not be going to a public school.
Not today.
Not unless some major changes are made to the education system in this country.
So if we can fund all that other stuff, we got money to keep up whatever operation is happening on our southern border to allow people we got money to keep up whatever operation is happening on our southern border
Whenever you see pictures or videos, there's government officials, whether it be Border Patrol agents or police or people in suits or whatever.
You see them down there ushering folks across the border, helping them step over the water.
Whatever they were assigned to do, they're doing it.
There's money for all that.
There's money to build places for them to lay their heads.
There's money to give them health care and provide them medical aid.
And so maybe the answer is...
Maybe the answer is, well, but all this money's budgeted, right?
So the money they're spending on that was already set aside.
And so the money for this thing that we're talking about here is just, it's just not there.
We can't just take it out of nowhere and put it in there.
Well, that's bullshit too.
Reappropriate it.
Why don't we tell the Ukraine, you're not getting another dime.
Fight the war?
Or concede?
But why do the American people have to fund it?
Why do the Americans have to fund this crap and then watch soldiers go without?
Or watch veterans go without?
Or watch our elderly folks go without?
Or watch our kids go without?
Why are Americans compromising Why are Americans compromising on their needs and their comfort and their health and whatever else?
Why are Americans compromising those things for the needs of people Who wanna funnel into this country illegally?
And I'm gonna tell you what.
I'm gonna tell you what the answer is.
Or at least the answer you would get from somebody.
I bet.
Well, you know, the people at the southern border, they don't have anywhere else to go.
Bullshit.
We're just one country.
The world's a big place.
And if you didn't come from Mexico, you had to get through Mexico to get here.
Did you stop and claim asylum there?
Doesn't the law state that you have to stop at every country's port of entry before you get to ours and claim asylum and be denied?
Where's proof of all that for all these thousands of people?
There's not any.
And I hate to be the guy that's the conspiracy theorist.
and But at the end of the day, I don't know that this is a conspiracy theory.
I think it's all right there in front of our faces.
And so when we talk about things like a pay raise for the military being shut down for all this bullshit initiatives, I can't help but bring up these things.
And I hate to be, I don't hate to be, but I try hard not to be super political on my show.
Because I believe, again, that veterans and military issues should be virtually nonpartisan.
It shouldn't be something that crosses any part of the line to one side or the other.
It just shouldn't.
It just shouldn't.
But this stuff here is not about...
If you ask me, it's not about marriage equality.
It's not about climate change initiatives.
What did they say?
Climate change initiatives in here?
I mean, folks, we're going to need to start wearing waders every day.
Um...
Climate change initiatives, critical.
Critical climate change initiatives.
And preventing the administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
It's all malarkey, again.
The United States military is probably one of the most diverse organizations ever.
That the government has.
I don't know that there is a more diverse department or organization or whatever you want to call it than the United States military.
I once read somewhere that the United States Army, and that might be true across all branches, recognizes like 84 or 82 different religions.
Well, they wouldn't say that.
They wouldn't recognize 82 of them if somebody wasn't practicing it.
So how do you get more diverse than that?
Can you even name 82 religions?
I certainly can't.
at I don't know that I can name 15 but I think that this is all just smoke and mirrors right This is what they want you to see.
And even...
And it doesn't matter.
The network, even Fox News.
Of course, they're here trying to make the president look like the bad guy and the Democrats and this and that and the other thing, right?
Because it's Fox News.
But the truth is that they're all...
All of them are shady.
So, I don't know that it matters if it's just...
One side or the other.
We need to do better.
The people that are put into office need to do better.
And I would say that we need to do better when we go to the polls.
But as we know, the jury's still out on whether or not any of that is legit.
The jury is still out on whether or not our votes even matter, in my opinion.
I don't want to get down to the stolen election stuff.
But, I don't know.
I don't know if it's as innocent as they make it out to be.
But we just need to do better.
Thank you.
I don't know where we got off the rails when it comes to taking care of our military members.
And maybe some of you would argue that we were never on the rails because military members have been getting screwed over for centuries.
Maybe that's true.
But I can say that in my time in the military, when we got screwed over, there was never any crap like this that was so blatant that it was just, it was clear as day.
Nothing like this.
This is just blatant Tomfoolery.
Like, this is childish stuff.
And I would like to think that we're better than that.
I'd like to think that we're better as a country than that.
Because when it all comes down to it, at the end of the day, I don't know if these are the initiatives that are going to keep us safe, that are going to hold up.
As we discussed last week on the show, nobody wants to have the discussion about what's real and what's ugly.
We only want to talk about what's real if it's pretty or if it's sexy or if it's fun.
Nobody wants to talk about the truth, the things that are ugly, that their truth is ugly.
And the truth of the matter is that the game that the military plays when it comes to actually putting forth a defense of our country can turn really ugly really fast.
They do a lot of great things.
Humanitarian aid, Disaster, really.
There's all kinds of great things that our military does.
Research, medical stuff, care, provide care.
All kinds of that stuff.
But when it really matters, where it really counts on the battlefield, it's ugly.
It's sad.
It's scary.
And most people want nothing to do with it.
So, when we have recruiting crisis like we do, when we have division amongst our communities like we do, When we have what seemingly is impending conflict slash war with other countries in this world and us?
When we have seemingly an invasion at our southern border?
And I say invasion because when I see pictures or when I see videos or I see news coverage, I mean, you see some women and children, but you see a lot of military-aged males.
I mean, look, we just had an illegal guy murder some people.
He got arrested, he escaped, and now he got arrested again.
Shouldn't have even been here.
But when we don't want to have those discussions and we want, when the news wants to put out these things that push us away from what actually really matters, right?
Just to come full circle.
This whole article is about, what's the title of it?
Biden White House pushes back against GOP bill, including military pay raise, saying he would veto it.
What this is all really about is not the pay raise.
It's not about taking care of our service members.
This whole argument is about right here.
It's all in this one paragraph.
This whole article is about The devastating consequences that this legislation may have on harming access to reproductive health, threatening the health and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex couples, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the administration from promoting Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
That's what all this is about.
This is not about pay raises.
This is not about the new fiscal year and whether or not the House Republicans and the Democrats can get along.
Because they don't care to get along.
They don't care about any of that shit.
What they care about are these things.
And when somebody stands up to it and says, Nope, we're not going to do this.
The president says, Well, okay.
Then we'll just stop all of it.
If we're not going to talk about this, we're not going to talk about any of it.
Well, included in all these things is things like pay raises for our soldiers.
But nobody has ever taken the time to say, hey, these things are, maybe they're important.
Maybe they need to be discussed.
Maybe they need to be hashed out.
But things like pay raises or childcare or school stuff.
You know, school...
What is the word I'm looking for?
Just having anything to do with your kid's education.
Those types of things.
Why can't that be taken out?
Put somewhere else.
And have that discussion first.
Because...
To me, and I think that a lot of Americans would agree that those types of things are a whole lot more important than marriage equality and critical climate change initiatives and, yeah, abortions and all this other crap.
Does anybody even really...
Let me ask you this.
Does anybody even really care anymore if a dude wants to marry a dude or a girl wants to marry a girl or two dudes want to marry three dudes?
I don't think anybody really cares anymore.
So why are we even making laws about it?
Why don't we just tell everybody, marry who you want.
You want to marry an aardvark?
Go do it.
Whatever.
Do what you got to do.
But leave me out of it.
Go do your thing.
There's more than enough space in this world for you to have all your aardvark babies.
I mean, I just, I don't understand it.
Anyway, folks, that's about all the time we got today.
I don't even feel like I got everything out I wanted to say.
Man, the time flies.
Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other.
Thank you again for joining us.
I really appreciate it.
We will see you again next week.
Have a great evening.
And hey, by the way, if you're up here in the Midwest, we got about four or five weeks till we get snow.
Snow's coming.
How about that?
Anyway, have a good night.
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