Quote: I think it's becuase the military has finally been allowed to pay it's personal their worth. Clinton defeated all pay increases for military.
What is this load of crap?
Clinton established the military pay increases from 1998 until 2008 (maybe '06, I don't remember exactly). Every single pay raise, minus a 2.4% increase above and beyond what Clinton allocated 2000 that Bush added to meet the federal requirements, was put into place by Clinton during his term. So out of the last 4 years, 19% of the pay increases were put into the budget by the Clinton administration. Only 2% was added by Bush.
Clinton was far from a savior and made some crappy decision, but he was certainly not 'defeating all pay increases' for the military. Much like the economy, Presidents have little to do with military spending which is budgeted over a large period of time. Only every other President gets to make a whole new budget from scratch depending who is single or double term.
Bush gets credit for pay raises that the Clinton administration put in the budget and people hate Clinton for the military cuts that Bush '41 put into effect (not that Clinton couldn't have repealed these decisions because he could have if he wanted to). Bush '41 stood in front of the country in a State of the Union address and announced plans to cut military technology spending and reduce the size of the military by over 30% by 1997 -- of course in 1992 Clinton became President and he's the one that got 'blamed' for all the cuts over the next few years. He did thankfully have the foresight to increase the budget for military technology research which has been an asset in our fighting recently.
