I knew they were doing something shady!!! Wait until the IRS gets a hold of them. These two make me sick! I work in health care. When I worked in assisted living we had to fight insurance companies tooth and nail for even basic things for our residence sometimes. People like these two are partly why. Don't get me started on our military and their benefits. Well you know the old saying, if you don't have anything nice to say.....
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Sorry O/T and I probably should just ignore this comment but it really upsets me when I hear others complain about the benefits for the military.
For starters, the military isn't the only place offering benefits to their employees. The benefits are part of the salary or job package, different companies , different benefits. Every 18 year old American can apply for a job with the military...and with the wide assortment of jobs available in the military, the military isn't always that picky..pass a physical, pass a basic knowledge test, complete boot camp...your in.
Everyone had the same choice to join the military and receive the benefits or find work and benefits elsewhere. So I really don't understand why people complain about military benefits when it was their choice to pass on a military job and the benefits in the first place.
But the main reason it upsets me to hear people complain about the benefits in the military is because each and every service member earns those benefits and more. When they enlisted they were told they would receive x,y & z as benefits and in return they had no choice but to work when told to work, live where told to live, often perform a job assigned rather than chosen. As a member of the military , they had to be willing to be deployed for months on end , eat packaged meals, go without showers, and sleep on the ground. They had to accept the possibility of being sent to war, of being shot at several times a day. They had to accept the possibility of seeing their friends severely wounded , killed or being killed themselves.
My husband served 20 years in the Air Force and deployed to the Gulf War twice. He has been having health issues since returning from the Gulf War . His benefit ? The Tricare Insurance for which , he pays premiums, deductibles and co-pays on and his retirement pay which non- military persons can work 20 years and receive retirement pay too.. So I am not sure what benefit he has that isn't available in the civilian world.
My uncle was a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, and is now dying from cancer attributed to Agent Orange. He served 4 years, not long enough to be eligible to participate in Tricare insurance or receive retirement pay. He does receive a percentage of his pay from 1968 through the VA disability program..a whopping $142 a month !
My son-in-law served in the Marines for 4 years, was in Afghanistan for a year during the worst of it. His job was to find IEDs and other explosives. He watched several friends lose limbs, lose their lives, and had a severe injury to his shoulder. He is not eligible for Tricare insurance, or retirement pay, and if he can take the time off work and go through all the VA red tape to receive disability pay he maybe able to receive, at most, a whopping $300 a month for losing 50% use of his arm and be in pain for the rest of his life. VA Disability really isn't any different than Workman's comp so what benefit do these men have that isn't available at a civilian job ?
Please forgive me for this long off topic post... hopefully the mods won't delete it..and hopefully people will stop viewing the military and their benefits in the same light as people who abuse the medicaid programs.. Our military personnel earn every dime of their pay, their benefits and more.. hopefully one day they will be given every ounce of our respect, too . They deserve nothing less from all of us !
