The benefits for military are always considered more or less comparable to any government position----worker's comp. or comparable entitlements in the private sector---
the 9-11 are paying off like a life insurance policy held at your request by the government itself as insurer. There IS a piercing contradiction in all of this.
I believe the first of many steps in *fixing* this, is a bill before congress to raise the death benefit to $100k.
I agree with Rush: tragic as it was, the 9-11 survivors' families don't deserve that kind of money; our brave Military does. What's done is done, but let's fix the Military's 2nd class treatment.
I never did get the reason for raising all that money for the families of 9/11.
The families of the 9-11 victims, were given comensation because the lawyers would have gotten involved and sued everyone and everything that moved, the cost would have been far greater, It is sad, that our society has stooped to that level but it is so.
Post the link, please.
Perhaps you missed where it says some of what you posted is not Limbaugh's:
This piece is also circulating with a coda that looks like it was tacked on by someone else, possibly as a commentary on the article that has now mistakenly been assumed a part of the original article itself: "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." — Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.The claim that Congressmen can receive lavish pensions after serving only a single term in Congress (eventually totalling into the millions of dollars) and that they neither pay into nor receive benefits from the Social Security fund is misinformation already covered on a separate page of this site. (As of 1998, the average annuity for retired members of Congress was about $48,000.)
Every time when 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. However our own U.S. Congress just voted themselves a raise, and 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 be millionaires plus. They also 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 you may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed you in harms 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.
it is time to forward this to as many people as you can.
Snopes or not, no way those are Limbaugh's words. That's the signature of a spammer.
Why I feel great compassion for the families that have been affected by 9/11, I have always questioned the HUGE amounts of money being given to these families, many families lose husbands,wives, mothers and fathers and there is a huge need to support these families as well as military families. The sense of entitlement is just disgusting and it is time that this generation (X) deal with it since it is apparent that are parents are not going to.
I may be wrong but it was my understanding that all those millions received by survivors of the 9/11 victims were private donations to charitable organizations distributed to them.
Billions were raised from donations from Americans.
How much of the money received was from government and how much from private funds?
Any member of the military service is eligible for a low-cost Servicemans Group Life Insurance (SGLI) policy of up to $250,000 for a nominal fee. Is Limbaugh suggesting that we just give these policies away to anyone in uniform?