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Ideal_Rock
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even if you do not like him.. you have to hand it to him..
This is not an attack on either political party.. one wants to conitunously cut their benefits while the others want to send them into battle.
By Rush Limbaugh:
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don''t criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can''t let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a ! family member in the September 11 attack, you''re going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there''s a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in mind t! hat some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 mi! llion up to $4.7 million are complaining that it''s not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now ! asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don''t you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It''s just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own U.S. Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don''t know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn''t have to pay into the system.
If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out a! s an E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm''s way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
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AND TO ADD MY THOUGHT. IT''S TIME WE TOOK A SECOND LOOK AT WHAT
WE MEAN BY HERO. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A FIREMAN OR A POLICEMAN
DOESN''T MAKE YOU A HERO...JUST LOOK AT NEW ORLEANS AND THOSE WHO
FLED AND LOOTED (YES, SOME FOR GOOD REASON, BUT NOT ALL.)
THERE IS NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON FOR CONGRESS TO AWARD ITSELF
IN THE WAY IT DOES. YES THOSE IN CONGRESS SERVE, BUT IT''S NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE SERVING THEMSELVES OUT OF PROPORTION TO THOSE
THAT ELECT THEM.
SECOND, I GRIEVE FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. BUT AN EMOTIONAL,
DISPROPORTIONATE AND DISCRIMINATE REWARD, ALMOST RESEMBLING A
GUILT PAYMENT, IS TOO MUCH.
THIRD, THOSE WHO SERVE IN THE MILITARY ARE EITHER GROSELY UNDERPAID
OR WE SHOULD HAVE A CONSCRIPTION SERVICE SO THE PAY WOULD BE
FAIR ACROSS THE BOARD, INCLUDING THE CHILDREN OF POLITICIANS.
JUST WEARING A BADGE, WEARING A UNIFORM, BEING A LIFE GUARD,
BEING IN A LOCATION THAT IS DESTROYED...THAT DOES NOT IN ITSELF
DEFINE HEROIC
YET, IF YOU CHOOSE TO PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR A GOOD CAUSE, KNOWING YOU MAY LOOSE YOUR LIFE, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU
SURVIVE OR DIE DOING IT, THAT TRULY IS HEROIC.
This is not an attack on either political party.. one wants to conitunously cut their benefits while the others want to send them into battle.
By Rush Limbaugh:
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don''t criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can''t let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a ! family member in the September 11 attack, you''re going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there''s a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in mind t! hat some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 mi! llion up to $4.7 million are complaining that it''s not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now ! asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don''t you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It''s just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own U.S. Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don''t know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn''t have to pay into the system.
If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out a! s an E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm''s way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AND TO ADD MY THOUGHT. IT''S TIME WE TOOK A SECOND LOOK AT WHAT
WE MEAN BY HERO. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A FIREMAN OR A POLICEMAN
DOESN''T MAKE YOU A HERO...JUST LOOK AT NEW ORLEANS AND THOSE WHO
FLED AND LOOTED (YES, SOME FOR GOOD REASON, BUT NOT ALL.)
THERE IS NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON FOR CONGRESS TO AWARD ITSELF
IN THE WAY IT DOES. YES THOSE IN CONGRESS SERVE, BUT IT''S NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE SERVING THEMSELVES OUT OF PROPORTION TO THOSE
THAT ELECT THEM.
SECOND, I GRIEVE FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. BUT AN EMOTIONAL,
DISPROPORTIONATE AND DISCRIMINATE REWARD, ALMOST RESEMBLING A
GUILT PAYMENT, IS TOO MUCH.
THIRD, THOSE WHO SERVE IN THE MILITARY ARE EITHER GROSELY UNDERPAID
OR WE SHOULD HAVE A CONSCRIPTION SERVICE SO THE PAY WOULD BE
FAIR ACROSS THE BOARD, INCLUDING THE CHILDREN OF POLITICIANS.
JUST WEARING A BADGE, WEARING A UNIFORM, BEING A LIFE GUARD,
BEING IN A LOCATION THAT IS DESTROYED...THAT DOES NOT IN ITSELF
DEFINE HEROIC
YET, IF YOU CHOOSE TO PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR A GOOD CAUSE, KNOWING YOU MAY LOOSE YOUR LIFE, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU
SURVIVE OR DIE DOING IT, THAT TRULY IS HEROIC.
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