Posted by NoNoBadDog! on 06/02/06 21:26

"John" <Johnnospam@spamex.com> wrote in message
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> NoNoBadDog! wrote:
>> I
>> "Ralf Hutter" <yowsa@mindblown.net> wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 03:28:06 -1000, "NoNoBadDog!"
>>> <Diespammers@notme.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am retired military.
>>>
>>> And I am an employed American. We're paying for your retirement,
>>> which is more than we'll get, thanks to this VERY expensive and
>>> seemingly pointless waste of good American lives.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I earned my retirement, same as everyone else. I earned for it
>> through pain and suffering, blood sweat and tears. I earned it
>> through fighting in two wars. I earned it by being uprooted and
>> moved all over the world on a continual basis. I earned it by doing
>> what needed to be done. I am also paying for my own retirement. The
>> part of my retirement that is not covered under my disability, I pay
>> taxes on. I paid a portion of each of my active duty paychecks into
>> the system for my retirement. You pay into it too, but it does not
>> pay me. I paid for my own reitrement. It is money that I paid in
>> ever the course of my service. Your choice of emplyment and retirement
>> benefits are yoru concern,
>> not mine.
>
> In your time of hard honest work were there guys like Ken Lay around?
> http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/02/enron_insure.html
>
> Did your medical benefits cut so deep as to force you to chose between
> health and food?
> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/597092781?ltl=1149278670
> Were you or others having their pensions swindled out from underneath by
> policies from Government that encouraged this?
> http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006603080339
>
> Were you wages continually going up or down?
> http://www.itpaa.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1971
>
> Do you feel betrayed by your government? Many do and rightly so wouldn't
> you think?
>
>

You are awfully good at complaining and pointing fingers...

How would you fix it? What programs would you dreate to pay for evrything
that every one wants, and no one wants to pay for?

How would you decide which programs get funded and which programs get cut?

None of your links are applicable.

I have never had to choose between medical treatment or food. I have 100%
medical coverage, and all of my medications are covered, too. They don't
cost a thing, other than 23 years of my life, being severely wounded twice
in combat, and my wife and kids neverhaving any stabiltity in their lives.

The references to Ken Lay and others are not relevant; the extent of human
greed knows no boundaries; people get away with what they can get away with.
The fix is simple; a cap on corporate salaries and a reasonable retirement
package. No single poerson is worth the kind of money some of these types
are drawing.

As for Enron and others who lost their pensions...it is sad that they were
duped, but the warning bells were going off long before the crash. No one
bothered to investigate...they just went on believing what they were being
told by Enron execs. they have no one but themselves to blame. Some tried
to stop the train wreck, but they were fired.

My wages continue to go up. I have never once in my life had to accept a pay
cut. I work for a reasonable wage, and I am not so greedy as to demand more.
I understand the basic tenets of our economy, and I live comfortably. I do
not desire to have something I can't earn honestly or do not deserve. I
don't want something for nothing. I do not erxpect to have anything handed
to me on a silver platter. I do not feel I am owed anyhting other that what
I have earned.


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