Interesting the contrast shared between military pay and the lowest tiers of the economic scale, as if is some kind of equivalence to imply that the lowest economic scale is lucky to get even that since the military makes sacrifices to get even that pay.

Not only is it meant to denigrate working poor people (in addition to an assumption they don't work hard), reliance on food stamps by the military is increasing.

What is most ironic by detractors of minimum wage increases who also seem to be small/less government people, increasing the minimum wage would drastically reduce reliance on government programs, those 'free handouts' given to the lazy pikers so despised.