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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Hank,
I know you value your tax cuts, but complaining about paying people who are risking their life for our country is going overboard. These people are and have been sacrificing for all of us, and if they actually enjoyed and got paid for a few weekends of military exercises (and beers) on guard duty, that expense is well deserved for their commitment.
We joke about just about everything here, but let's not belittle the soldiers.
G^3
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Should the salaries know no limits? This is as unmoored as the Bush argument that the military should get higher pay raises than civilian gov't employees because we're in wartime. Conveniently ignoring that all soldiers in combat get combat pay (and that the military has a large number of civilian non-combat, desk positions), and curiously ignoring the numerous civilian employees (e.g. DHS, FBI) who are engaged in the "war on terror", despite being considered civilians.
Are you saying military pay or pensions are insufficiently generous currently? if so, what is the basis for that statement, other than "whatever they're paying, it should be more" and "my dad deserves to have his standard of living increased by the government, because i'm so greedy (3x, indeed) that I won't increase it for him"?
