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Is this how they’ll survive while ordinary people get by like this as they wait for the “doomsday budget?”
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I had a military job, back in the post-Vietnam era of 1976. And after four years’ time, I managed to make $11,000. While a comparable civilian union job started at twice that, DAY ONE!! The cost of food and housing was substracted from this. Not a free extra. And medical benefits were a bit of a joke. Mostly we were experimented on, by the Pharmas, against our wishes. Care for anything that actually made you sick, was substandard compared to civilian plans of the time.
But I’m not saying there wasn’t extravagant salaries in the military. We got a got a 5% pay raise one year, that amounted to a few dollars a month more for the enlisted ranks. While the Generals made hundreds more. We were told that the military couldn’t afford to pay everyone equally, across the board. So only those that made lots more, got paid lots more.
Someone I know had a career as a military recruiter (yes I know, hiss, boo), which is a lot like a used car salesman, but for enlisted jobs that turn out to be lemons. They too get paid very well, I’ve heard. And when he retired, he went to live in Central America, where he didn’t have to pay American taxes. And he wasn’t the only one living it up, down in Banana Land, on a US government pension. And that’s peanuts, compared to US Corporations hiding profits via offshore tax havens. All of which the US Congress refuses to interfere with. Thanks to the GOP’s concern for the rich, avoiding paying taxes.
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#21 Yeah, I agree that the benefits fall very unequally, but I think today it has less to do with rank than willingness to work the system. I lived next to a group of navy enlisteds who were pulling in nearly 5k, as a group of four, per month in housing benefits alone. Plus they would rent space to additional people by the week. Before even considering salaries the house, food, and beer were already paid for.
This specific group were a bunch of nitwits who could have never held a company job making similar money.
I also know people in medical and tech jobs in the military who are well paid. I have no gripe with that. Creating educated professional people is always going to be a boon for society.
My actual gripe is with people who think all government workers are overpaid, but all soldiers are underpaid. We should be looking at both military and civilian programs in the same way:
*They should be useful
*They should be cost effective
*Incentives should improve performance