Thanks Ross for just adding fuel to this little bit of Hell we have to put up with in the OTD.
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Flag all the nasty, uncivil posts. Someone will get the hint.
I think they just want to keep that thread open so that they can keep some stuff confined to it and not spill out elsewhere. There was something the other day that was pretty nasty that I flagged. Nothing happened. So, I've given up on that. It happens there. Nothing is done when flagged. They close other flamebait threads and redirect the posters to that thread. Go figure.
"Does 'honk' mean yes?"
"Honk!"
"See, I told you so!"
1. Why would you fudge it?
2. Feeding my ego? Is that like the Navajo dancing the Sun into the air on New Years? Who wouldn't want to participate in such a beautiful ceremonial act?
Not happy with the plans to fix the national debt. I keep hearing about how 'we need to change military benefits, we can't sustain the current system'. I'm fine with that. Problem being, I'm over ten years in the service. They change it to a 401k type of plan, I don't have that much time to pay in. Take away the lifetime medical, and I might as well just get out and start over with some corporate company.
But what really gets me is they never talk about their own retirement plans, just mine.
I'm sorry you have to worry about that. I think they shouldn't mess with benefit packages so much as number of wars.
I appreciate your negative support in that thread. Some people don't get the point. <Glares meaningfully, then realises this post was spoilered for TOZ.>
Thanks for the support, and I'm glad I got the tone of the thread right. It was a good place to vent about it. I think I need to post it to Facebook as well.
Either way, I still plan on serving my twenty years. The only way I'll stop is if they take away the lifetime medical. At that point, there really IS no incentive to stay the full twenty.
It would be nice if they grandfather me into the current system if/when they make the changes. I'd even be fine not having free paychecks for life, as long as I had assured access to medical care. I came in right out of high school, so I will be able to retire from the military at 38. I'll still be plenty capable of work then, so foregoing a retirement check isn't that big of a deal.
It does irritate me that politicians can do 4 years and get full retirement, at a pay scale FAR higher than mine. I wonder what the numbers would say if you compared military pensions to elected official pensions. I bet the percentage of politicians collecting pensions outstrips military retirees.
I'm sorry, everyone. It isn't nice of me to sit here and eat this delicious, home-made pumpkin bread without sharing any of it. But I'm not going to share. Once again, sorry.