[Jacquerie]

<>Christensen said pay for active duty members or activated Guard and Reservists is better among officers than 90 percent of comparative civilians and, among enlisted, better than 83 percent of civilians with similar education and experience levels.<>

There is no better combination of pay and bennies for someone walking out of high school.

I wonder if/how the data is skewed by single mothers.

[Mastador1]

Where is the outrage from liberals? We are constantly beat over the head that people can’t raise a family on fast food wages, something that entry level jobs were never meant to do, but when word comes out that America fails to take care of the families of those who have committed their lives to the defence of it’s people all we hear from liberals is............................the sound of silence!

[Uncle Miltie]

EBT is great.

I would like to thank my fellow taxpayers for the meal I had yesterday, courtesy of a middle-class kid who is on EBT while attending college. We had:

Artisanal Beer Bread
Goat cheese with herbs
Smoked salmon
Organic orange cherry tomatoes
Dark chocolate bar with sizzling chili

All that on the taxpayer! Too bad I had to buy drinks, otherwise the whole meal would have been FREE.

[Mogger]

This is because of generations of percentage pay increases, rather than flat dollar increases.

The same thing has happened in many fields, including teachers.

Those at the top are overpaid and those at the bottom underpaid.

If course those at the top are the ones negotiating increases in many situations, especially teachers.

We need to stop all pay increases for the upper ranks of the military for a few years, and give substantial flat dollar increases to the lower ones for a while, then continue with flat dollar for all.

[strider44]

How many of those soldiers using the food bank have a smart phone with an expensive data plan? More video games/systems than a Japanese teanager? I’ve seen it. I’ve grown a bit cynical in my 19 years of service after listening to every possible soldier problem you can imagine...

[ansel12]

I would love to see the demographic breakdown of those comfortable with accepting welfare.

Forty years ago my wife and I were eligible for food stamps and we desperately needed help with the low military pay of the time, especially when I stopped receiving paychecks entirely, for a period of time, (at the time, to correct overpays, they would just keep everything until it was paid back).

I couldn’t bring myself to do it, and instead scavenged C-rations from field exercises to supplement our eating, you can imagine what my well bred teen wife thought of C-rations.

[antidisestablishment]

This is total bs. There is already a supplemental allowance for enlisted members who (would) qualify for assistance:

FSSA

Plus they get full pay and allowances.