Timber Rattler probably is a guy making six figures on the outside and just bashes the military folks. I did 24 years in the Navy. Retired as a Chief (E-7) and I make 2,100 dollars a month (after medical and taxes). I also work at the Naval Academy and am a hated government worker as many here say. I make 1,096 dollars every two weeks. I didn’t get a bonus this year. However, I MIGHT get a bonus of 400 dollars (but maybe not if the budget is bad). So overall I make around 4,000 a month. I guess I am a drain on FREEPERS.
Depends. How many people do you support? How many people do they support? How many students (you are at the Naval Academy which has a purpose of teaching)? How much support per student? Is it cost effective?
Obviously with your small salary you are not a problem. But multiplied by millions it can be a problem. My own job and company is problematic because t's hard to measure productivity when far removed from the front line. The thing to keep in mind is how productive we can be personally while making sure whatever we are doing is truly useful.
Bullcrap. My family is a military family and I guarantee that we have shed more blood for this country, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War, than you and yours.
But, the simple truth is that many of these folks have been gaming the system, and we can't afford it anymore.
Timber rattlers are bad-tempered and dangerous reptiles whose only use in life is to strike out blindly at everything near them and to be a protein source for Red-Tailed Hawks and the occasional Eagle.