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By Rush Limbaugh:
I think the vast differences in compensation
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 harm's 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 US 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 receive 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.
I think the vast differences in compensation
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 harm's 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 US 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 receive 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.