Love him or loathe
him, he nailed this one right on the head..........
By Rush
Limbaugh:
I think the vast differences in compensation
between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our
country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either,
because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11.
Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really
disturbing about the
entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a
family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of
$1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to
$4.7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American
soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death
benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial
costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you
remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When
the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.
Keep in
mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up
to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough. Their deaths were
tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their
families know the dangers.
We also learned over the weekend that some
of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal
that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the
families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as
well.
You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and
parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just
really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually
receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in
the Middle
East while their
families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make
sense?
However, our own U.S. Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of
you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a
pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being
millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because
they didn't have to pay into the system.
If some of the military people
stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, they may receive a pension of
$1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm's way receives a
pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up
a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering
pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
"When do we finally do
something about this?" If this doesn't seem fair to you, it is time to forward
this to as many people as you can.
How many people can YOU
send this to ?