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stupid pedophile
said the jackass who never stuck his neck out for anyone, never served, and is retiring from the Senate with a pension and healthcare for life
While I have no problem with everything else, isn't he "serving" as a senator? As a government employee, I try to uphold the same principles as I did in the military, but I realize there are more ways to "serve" than just the military. Public service is pretty damn important. Now we could probably lose a few senators or congressmen and do just fine, but the basic idea of public service is you are doing it for your country's good, realizing of course it's not black and white (and neither is military service).
But you need to do at least 20 or become disabled in the military to retire with pension and health insurance for life. You "serve" one term, just one term in the Senate and you are set up. I understand setting up the POTUS for life after term, but damn. But they also need term limits, too. But I digress.
Not really, I know lots of people that aren't really "disabled" and drawing all kinds of benefits, not to mention how the GI Bill has ballooned in the last 15 years or so. I also say that most senators are not starting public service as a senator, although it's a distinct possibility, more than likely they served as a state senator, attorney, mayor, councilman, etc. My point is that usually these people have dedicated to civil service.
So Police, Fire and EMS dispatchers? Trainers? What about the huge numbers of enlisted and officer support personnel in the military that never put their lives on the line due to their specific jobs? Should they even get benefits? I'm simply saying you can't paint with as broad a brush as you have. Plenty of people within the groups you stated don't even meet the criteria you stated and never put their lives on the line, due to their specific job.
I make the distinction that they are doing this for a bigger cause, for the country. It's not always true in either case, military or civil servant, but I think it's at least what we should strive for.
Do we believe members of the military without jobs that risked their lives or were not in the line of fire "served"?GFF has all his limbs, so he's not REALLY disabled, right? He's such a freeloader.
I used every $$$ of my GI Bill and wish it was as much as it is now.
Yep I did the same with my GI bill, but if I got what people get now...
This is demonstrably false. It's a right wing canard almost as old as time itself.
Because this:
It's easy, and fair, to be angry at congress folks for lot's of reasons, but when it comes to pensions/healthcare/etc, they "earn" them and cash them out, just like any other low level government peon.
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You're derailing my holiday hate train. Please cease and decyst (yes, I believe Squeeb is chock full of cysts...namely, ginger cysts).
You're derailing my holiday hate train. Please cease and decyst (yes, I believe Squeeb is chock full of cysts...namely, ginger cysts).
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while i respect what most of those highlighted do (save for the police,) i dont consider that "serving" nor do i know anyone who considers that serving as well
I dunno
Oakland, south central Los Angeles and Detroit pretty much qualify as War Zones. All Fire Fighters, EMS and Police wear kevlar body armor while on duty and get shot at on a regular basis.
still not a real war zone
Jokes on them if they got the F250 with a 6 liter diesel. Even a terrorist doesn't deserve that.
Big difference between serving as an elected official and in uniform...one sets policy yet doesn't live by it, one makes tons of money and one doesnt, one has full benefits that they give themselves, one is subject to the whims of the others struggle to stay employed etc. One expects and accepts hardships related to work, the other gives hardships. One takes benefits, the other earns them...I cant believe this is even a discussion.
It works well as an explosive device, those engines grenade all the time. Pack that bitch with explosives and just drive it around.
for ih8rices cop erectile dysfunction....
When the good cops support the bad cops without question, it is the bad cops that define the whole group.
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Depends on your definition of "Achiever" I guess...