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Date Posted: 01:52:35 02/12/03 Wed
Author: Bev Martin
Author Host/IP: cache-dp01.proxy.aol.com / 205.188.209.101
Subject: Re: Military Families
In reply to: crystal mathews 's message, "Military Families" on 12:57:46 09/11/02 Wed

My oldest son is a career military person, he has been in the airforce for over 12 years. I think most people would be shocked and dismayed at how our military sons and daughters must live. There are WIC trailers on most bases, which is a valuable service but also speaks unspoken words of the value we as a country place on our military families. Do you know that a military family lives at/below the national poverty line? We no longer provide uniforms, boots, etc to our soldiers. The cleaning, pressing and sewing on of well earned patches, commissions, ribbons is paid for our soldiers. Yet, with all this said my wonderful son loves his "job" and trudges along with continued assistence from the family. Where is their "raise"? Young people continue to enlist, some thinking that it will provide financial security , some a patriotic duty. My son enlisted and I am proud of him and sad for him. One thing I did not realize is that he would be among the poor in America.
>
>
>
>Military Family
> What are we as people coming to????
> What's a Military Family Worth?
> by Rush Limbaugh, March 11, 2002
>
> I think the vast differences in compensation
>between the victims of
>the September 11th casualty, and those who die serving
>the 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 11th.
>Well, I just 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 11th
>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 that some of the people that are getting
>an average of
>$1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that
>it's not enough.
> 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
>theSeptember11th 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 fifty years
>of entitlement
> politics in this country. It's just really sad.
> "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of
>emotion
> but the tranquil and steady dedication of a
>lifetime."-Adlai E.
> Stevenson,Jr.
> Every time when 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.
>
> However our own U.S. Congress just voted
>themselves a raise, and
> many of you don't know that they only have to be
>in Congress one-time to receive pension that is more
>than $15,000 per month and most are now equal to be
> millionaires plus.
>
> They also do not receive Social Security on retirement
> because they didn't have to pay into the system.
>(Note: I think that
>if they paid into social security before being
>elected, they can collect that
> also...Roy)
>
> If some of the military people stay in for 20
>years and get out as
>an E-7 you may receive a pension of $1,000 per month,
>and the very people
>who placed you in harms way receive 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.
>
> "When do we finally do something about this ??"

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