Priorities

"In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard. The Guardsmen are among those assigned to protect Alaska from the Japanese during World War II. The Army decided this year to no longer count service in the Guard in calculating the military's 20-year minimum for retirement pay, although it still counts for military benefits. As a result, their pensions were decreased in January. An estimated 300 members are still living from the original 6,600-member unit formed in 1942 to protect Alaska, then a territory, from attack. The 26 men have enough other military service to reach the 20-year minimum for retirement pay but would lose it if the Territorial Guard service doesn't count."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/76088.html

The only spending Obama's ever wanted to cut - - "pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard."

This is an obvious dig at Palin, and he's jerking around 26 World War II veterans in their 70's and 80's to do it.