ajax18 wrote:That's how the liberal elites do it. You win elections with talk about compassion and helping the poor. Then you tax the living hell out of those of us working to live month to month while you retire at 44.
Hold on just a New York minute, there ajax18. I didn't realize that the above comment was directed to Cam. You've made similar snide comments to me as well.
Listen up, you sniveling whiner, Cam retired from the effing military, just like we did. Do you have any idea at all what that means? It means you move around the globe for 20+ years. It means you don't live near your extended family. It means that every damned move costs you out of pocket for incidentals. It means that you're furniture and appliances get knocked around, lost/stolen in moving vans. It means you ship cars overseas, sometimes at your own expense depending on your rank, or you drive a beater around Europe for 2-3 damned years. It means that you rack up the mileage on your POV driving to your next duty station.
It means you live in countries that you aren't able to communicate with the locals. It means that you do without all the creature comforts that you have here in the U.S. It means you shop in damned commissaries that run out of crap. When we were in Germany they ran out of turkeys in November while you were stateside hogging down your dinner.
It used to mean that you had to write letters back and forth overseas and get up in the middle of damned night to talk to your mother at a MARS station or write letters via APO that took weeks to make the trip over. It means you hardly ever see your relatives unless you're passing through on the way to the next duty station or you got the call in the middle of the night that your parent died. It means that your kids don't have the same friends for more than a couple of years and neither do you, because their family PCS's to a new duty station.
It means you either live in base housing where they jerk you around the whole time or when you clear quarters, or you live in the surrounding area and hope to god that your sponsor was being honest with you when they said you chose a safe neighborhood. It means you rent or buy a home hoping to god you can sell it before you PCS again or you go rental for years on end, knowing that what you live in doesn't belong to you.
It means that your spouse goes Civil Service or pounds salt trying to get a job every time you move, regardless of what career plans they had in mind for themselves.
It means that the service member goes on deployment or remote tours while the spouse rows the boat at home no matter what happens---birth-death-illness, that your family doesn't know where in the hell you are and cannot communicate with you, they watch the news reports when there is conflict hoping to find out something/anything about your whereabouts and sometimes it means that you become the next blue bark shipment and arrive back home in a flag draped coffin.
It means that for many, you go in strong as an ox and leave with service connected conditions and diseases that transform into disabilities that will never resolve. I happen to live with a veteran of the USAF who chose to use his GI Bill benefits on schooling for a second career when he separated from the military, whose service connected conditions and diseases eventually did just what I stated above.
His home is straight up paid for. He cash flowed both his kids through college. Paid for weddings in cash. He doesn't owe anyone a damn dime. He is 100% disabled and you, with your alleged 6 figure income and constant bitching, aren't fit to shine his damned shoes.
Did I just rant that out? Yeah, and I'm posting it, too.