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“You aren’t being paid by the military, you are being paid by me and my children, and my neighbors and my neighbors children. Do you send us thank you letters with each paycheck you receive?

We didn’t hire you now, we can’t fire you now, we can’t even demand any current performance for work from you. To us, friend, you are now no more than a leech.”

You are not very bright, are you?

I am paid by the DOD. Yes, it is deferred payment. I delivered goods (service) on promise of future payments. It is no different than selling a car on an installment plan - the customer (taxpayer, citizen) takes the car (military service) and promises to make future payments.

No, I don’t send you letters thanking you for my retirement pay, nor did I thank you while on active duty. We had a business agreement. I did X, and in return you agreed to pay me Y now, and Z later. I kept my end of the deal, now I expect you to keep yours. If you do not, you are dishonest and a cheat and a thief.

“We allow for pensions to widows of husbands lost in a war, or to lose men seriously harmed by warfare, but to others? A man able to post here is able enough to earn his own way, and needs no charity of pension to survive.”

Again, we had an agreement. I kept my part, now I expect you to keep yours without bitching. If you had preferred, I’d have been willing to take a lump sum in advance - but you chose to buy my service on the installment plan. I accepted, and I delivered on my part - and now you want to weasel out of the contract.

You are not giving me charity. You are not ‘giving’ me squat. The payments are what you owe me. I kept my end of the bargain, but now you want to call it off.

I don’t care if your family pays me for 30 years. You agreed to do so before I accepted the contract. What part of a promise or a legal contract do you not understand?

I suppose you are one of those who buys a house, then refuses to pay - or to move out. You just want an excuse to keep back the money you promised to pay. Screw you!