View Full Version : Military retirement is earned, not welfare
craigepo
10-06-2011, 09:03
I thought this article, from the National Review, was one of the best I have read on why military retirement is different from other government expenditures. It is unfortunate that we have to explain it to our society.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279168/promise-earned-jim-lacey?page=1
Outstanding post. Thank you.
It is indeed a shame the fact has to be illustrated.
This one sentence puts it all in perspective:
"Those receiving military retirement have earned it through sacrifices not demanded of any other government or private-sector employee. "
Dragbag036
10-06-2011, 21:11
Good post...sent it to some of the guys
Ret10Echo
10-07-2011, 04:33
Great post...Thanks
Forwarding it to my elected officials....
This nation asks a lot of its military, and they have given in full measure. One soldier captured it all when he said to me after finishing 20 years of service: “I have given the Army, my country, and my brothers everything I had. If there is anything left in me it is going to go to my family.” When he departed the service he took with him a retirement paycheck of less than $25,000 a year. It was promised to him. He earned it.
Amen
greenberetTFS
10-07-2011, 05:25
You're damn right that you've deserved that money,you got it the HARD way and EARNED it..:D:D:D
Big Teddy :munchin