NO, NO, NO ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! These young men and women put their lives on the line to insure our country stays a free country. You want / need to make cuts, cut into foreign aid, or all the social programs we have here in American, BUT LEAVE OUR MILITARY ALONE.

Please. As if this is the least of their worries. They come home to no jobs, poor medical treatment and a government that is less than will to help them. It is disgusting the way our government thinks. They cut spending for everyone but themselves. Who else gets paid for not working, who else gets their type of medical benefits? Those people we put into office should have term limits and not judged by their paychecks. I refuse to believe those morons running our government are the best this country has to offer.

Just political show-boating. " Look what the bad other party did to you. " "Tell your Rep and Senator to quit cutting even though the country is effectively bankrupt" There are thousands of things the govt could cut other than this. The tuition just makes a lot of noise. How about freezing govt. hiring. Reduce foreign aid 10% across the board. Change tax code to "everyone pays sales tax" no exceptions. I beleive nothing from Washington. They are an entity separate from the country and reality.

I DO NOT AGREE! My husband just finished serving 4.5 years in the military and 4 months prior to getting out of the service, we began job hunting and trying to plan our next move. 10 job interviews later, not one of those companies decided to hire him. WHY? Because the next guy in line had a COLLEGE EDUCATION, and he didn't. Although my husband has the G.I Bill to fall back on, most men and women now don't, and you're taking away the only opportunity they'll have to better themselves and prepare for civilian life when their contract ends. It's REDICULOUS! Why is our military being punished for all that they do?! First you cut Military Tuition, Next is Tri-Care and Veteran's healthcare! Military familes already live paycheck to paycheck, LEAVE OUR MILITARY ALONE! This is BS! How bout you take from the people that live off the system and don't do a god damn thing for this country!

Not no but H&%$ No.....We served our country in war and peace. We deserve tuition aid when requested. Reduce aid to the illegals and leave the military alone.

My point is those elected to be our leaders have taken so much advantage of the public and for so long they feel entitled. Our military should be taken care of first and if there is no money left over then those in Washington should be willing to take the first pay cut.

Bingo Diana.

This is absolutely the right thing to do...if you want to make these cuts as painful as possible. Chicago politics at its finest--get what you asked for, even though you really didn't want it. Then, when the people don't fall for your crying "Wolf", find a way to make them cry. Like closing down the WH for tours, unless, of course, there are big buck donors wanting access.

This guy would have failed as a pimp.

I'm intrigued by all the comments about our congressional representatives and inferences to the president - appropriate or inappropriate. While Congress continues to manipulate the very people they represent and refuse to find some common ground on which to move this country forward, each one of us continues to elect and re-elect the same individuals term after term. (The definition of insanity...) And for our part, we remain silent while they push their own personal agendas along party lines. Only when their ineptitude affects us directly (not in my backyard) do we raise our voices. The parodox lies in the very government we elect: There is no democracy in Washington; only personal agendas and partisan politics. Do you want change in Washington? Then don't write your comments here (with all due respect to Patch); pick up your phones or write your comments and remind our politicians that it's us who pay their salaries and pay for their benefits. And if that doesn't work - stop re-electing them. Maybe then, and only then, will they get the message.

No this was not the right cut to make! This president can cancel his golf outings and his family vacations as a starter.

ABSOLUTELY NOT! These brave, sacrificing, american citizens deserve further education These were benefits guaranteed to them when they signed on to defend our country. Let's all fight to be sure they get these FULL BENEFITS.

But according to Romney people in the military are part of the 47% who are the takers. If you don't like it you should start voting for some different types of representatives than we now have in Georgia. No the benefits should not be cut. The military is bloated but this isn't the place to cut. We need long term spending reforms and added taxes. The GOP nonsense that all we have to do is cut spending and that there can be no new taxes is the problem.

I am so sick of these Republicans. Most of them have more than enough money to send their kids to the richest schools, so they could care less. Of course they, OR their kids, RARELY serve in the military. That's up to lower class and middle class soldiers who have now been sent up the creek. If the troops ever chose to do a mass exodus, America would see just how much power the 47% have.

Peach, not one liberal politician is worth less that 6 figures. Not one. You also might want to look at the number of Republicans that have kids serving right now as we speak. I disagree with the obama cuts as well. Agree with gill daniels that washington controls this and is responsible for most of it. Republicans have been in the minority for quite some time and have very little control over most of the decision making. But liberals do have control of the media where they spout all the blame on someone else knowing they have a following of people that will buy it.

You know, the soviet union fell due to economic bankruptcy, which is where we are headed now due to oour spendthrift gocurrent government. Wouldn't that be a blip if our military went with it? Our enemies wouldn't have to fire a single shot.