Yea the VA sucks IMHO. PITA. And i have always thought they need to pay soliders more $$ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:47 AM Subject: RE: Corporate Support for Activated Reservists
Amazing. So now I have to get a job at sears :). The money thing is the hardest part of this life. I mean a deployment can go on for an unknown amount of time. You have the soldiers and sailors act which prevents companies from charging you interest while your deployed, but not principal. So for sake of argument lets say I make something like 40,000 a year. I, like most Americans pretty much use all of that to live on in a month other than say 10% in savings and investments. Now I get deployed. I suddenly make 24,000 a year. I accrue all the debt of the remaining 16,000 or so (minus 10% = 12,000) per year I am deployed. Not only that but as soon as I am off deployment the companies can start charging me interest on the debt. I know soldiers who have had to go bankrupt already. I mean I know doctors that are only enlisted infantryman in the guard. They love the infantry, don't want to be officers so they stayed enlisted, and now when they get deployed they can be accruing as much as 80,000 a year in debt while gone. It's kind of hard sometimes. I mean I guess when we decide to serve our country they should let us know that the country doesn't serve us back. Ask a Vietnam vet sometime, or even look at what happened to returning WW1, WW2 and Korean war vets. Many of the promises made by the federal government were totally abandoned. I remember when my grandmother died, she was a WW2 WAAC. No honor guard, even though we had been promised one. The single guy that they sent was a national guardsman, an 18 year old private. He looked like shit. I don't think any officer or NCO would have ever let him come to a funeral looking like that, so they must not have inspected him. At the time I was an E-4 in the 82nd still. I shone :) He tried to be all buddy buddy before the service. I made him leave, No respect. This after her having to fight for her medical rights as a veteran and spouse of a veteran for years. Dealing with the inept military medical services, the disgusting hospitals. Really sad. Sometimes I wonder what it is I serve. I just have to remember it's not any one administration. It's the country and the people of the country that we do this for, not the politicians. It's not the benefits, or the money. Tim -----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:12 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Corporate Support for Activated Reservists Just got this email in that sounded really fishy. I checked on Snopes.com and it turns out that it's true. The Snopes page is at http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.php. --------------------------------------------------------- ISSUE: It's rare we get to send out an Alert asking you to *thank* folks for doing the RIGHT thing. It's our joy to send this one out today. A story at CitizenLink.org notes that, with more than 110,000 reservists taking part in the U.S. effort in Iraq, several American companies are going the extra mile to support them. Dozens of companies are offering them extras, including UPS, IBM, Conoco and Dell Computer Corp. One of the best examples, though, is Sears: their company is supporting the troops by making up the difference between reservists' pay and their regular salary at Sears for up to two years. Even though, like every other business, Sears is dealing with a struggling economy, the retailer says simply helping their customers isn't enough. Sears' compensation of reservists is believed to be the most generous of any major company in America, but company spokeswoman Jan Drummond said it was an easy decision. "Sears grew up in America," Drummond said. "Frankly it was not a difficult or complicated decision to come to. It was the right thing to do." Sears is going well above the call of duty. The law requires that a company hold a reservist's job while he is serving, but little else. Sears employs about 500 reservists. --------------------------------------------------------- Whether it's a straight indirect marketing move or a genuine support doesn't matter to me. That they're doing it says a lot. I *might* actually shop from there again! Until Later! Hatton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89 70.5
