“We care. And we do not like it. WE never agreed to it.”
Bullshit! You have a representative government. Have you been out campaigning to end the military retirement system? If a bill was offered in Congress now to terminate all military retirement, who would vote for it? Anyone?
YOU never sent me into combat. I went there because the government that represents you told me to go.
When I was shot at, where were you? When I was in Turkey or Saudi, patrolling the skies over Iraq and getting shot at, where were you? When I was in Afghanistan, where were you?
You want the protection the military gives, and you want the benefit of having a military, but now you want to back out and claim you never hired us.
You are a liar and a cheat and a coward. You disgust me. I wish there was some way your personal taxes could double as punishment for your loathsomeness. Maybe your soft little butt should be hauled to Afghanistan, where my son is currently on the ground. You want to be safe from terrorists? You do it.
Oh wait, you don’t do it and you haven’t done it. You send others to do it in your place, and then try to change the terms you agreed to pay, you pathetic POS!
Politically connected thugs and liars do not represent me, any more than the local mafia Don and his represents the neighborhood, the Italians in the neighborhood, or the Sicilians in the neighborhood.
YOU are taking my money! YOU are NOT doing any work on my behalf. You are not serving anyone except yourself now. And you hide behind the same kind of embeggar-the-future policies of thugs, thieves and liars used to justify union pension bailouts, school district pension bailouts, and your own life of Reilly on my dime.
When you DID work YOU GOT PAID THEN! You cashed those paychecks and you had the same opportunities everyone else has to invest part of that for your future.
A lot of the work I DID goes to providing you and you family the goods and the energy you used your whole life. And some of those jobs where dangerous too. Men got injured, men died on those jobs. I ain’t asking YOU for one thin dime. I ain’t FORCING YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN to make my retirement quite nice and lush and luxuriant, and then arresting you and your children for failure to pay up.
I had good long term benefits—in the form of stock—too. Stock in real companies is a more HONEST way of funding retirement. But some of that is gone. The companies went bankrupt. Companies that provided vital goods and services too.
THIS COUNTRY IS BANKRUPT. You made an agreement about the future. The future is uncertain.
But rather than being part of a viable future, you only look out for yourself.
YOU, with that attitude of entitlement, disgust us.