[american spirit]

Somehow the fed's come up with $ to house, feed, clothe, educate and medicate illegals who care nothing for this country yet they let our own service people and their families suffer. When will this sheer stupidity ever end?

[texlok]

Somehow the fed's come up with $ to house, feed, clothe, educate and medicate illegals who care nothing for this country yet they let our own service people and their families suffer. When will this sheer stupidity ever end?

Hell, if they paid them as much as the civilians many are working beside doing the same jobs, I think a lot wouldn't have so much of a problem.Many probably didn't sign up for the NG to be standing around airports for hours on end. It's one thing to actually go and fight, like the Persian Gulf, but it's another to be standing around in your hometown airport watching people all day, while making much much less than the civilian right next to you.

[HiJinx]

It does appear heartless to apparently favor illegals over service personnel, but it is just that...appearance.

NG personnel recieve the same pay and allowances as their active duty counterparts when deployed/activated/federalized. When their civilian employer stops paying them, they lose whatever civilian pay they've been earning. You can't expect Joe NG to receive a Sergeant's pay and his $50K per year civilian income from the Fed. gov't., that isn't fair to the active duty Sergeant serving alongside him.

In this respect, TADSLOS is absolutely correct. Stop yer' whinin' and carry on.

It's the family members who are facing loss of homes and worse for whom we would hope to find a solution.