Yes, I know someone who lives in Virginia Beach, and was shocked to hear how the military people there are mostly living in or near poverty. :-( Patrick
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: April 2, 2003 7:47 AM >To: CF-Community >Subject: RE: Corporate Support for Activated Reservists > > >Amazing. > >So now I have to get a job at sears :). > >The money thing is the hardest part of this life. I mean a >deployment can >go on for an unknown amount of time. You have the soldiers >and sailors act >which prevents companies from charging you interest while your >deployed, but >not principal. > >So for sake of argument lets say I make something like 40,000 >a year. I, >like most Americans pretty much use all of that to live on in >a month other >than say 10% in savings and investments. Now I get deployed. >I suddenly >make 24,000 a year. I accrue all the debt of the remaining >16,000 or so >(minus 10% = 12,000) per year I am deployed. Not only that >but as soon as I >am off deployment the companies can start charging me interest >on the debt. > >I know soldiers who have had to go bankrupt already. I mean I >know doctors >that are only enlisted infantryman in the guard. They love >the infantry, >don't want to be officers so they stayed enlisted, and now >when they get >deployed they can be accruing as much as 80,000 a year in debt >while gone. > >It's kind of hard sometimes. I mean I guess when we decide to >serve our >country they should let us know that the country doesn't serve >us back. Ask >a Vietnam vet sometime, or even look at what happened to >returning WW1, WW2 >and Korean war vets. Many of the promises made by the federal >government >were totally abandoned. > >I remember when my grandmother died, she was a WW2 WAAC. No >honor guard, >even though we had been promised one. The single guy that >they sent was a >national guardsman, an 18 year old private. He looked like >shit. I don't >think any officer or NCO would have ever let him come to a >funeral looking >like that, so they must not have inspected him. At the time I >was an E-4 in >the 82nd still. I shone :) He tried to be all buddy buddy before the >service. I made him leave, No respect. This after her >having to fight for >her medical rights as a veteran and spouse of a veteran for >years. Dealing >with the inept military medical services, the disgusting >hospitals. Really >sad. > >Sometimes I wonder what it is I serve. I just have to >remember it's not any >one administration. It's the country and the people of the >country that we >do this for, not the politicians. It's not the benefits, or the money. > >Tim > >-----Original Message----- >From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:12 PM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Corporate Support for Activated Reservists > > >Just got this email in that sounded really fishy. I checked >on Snopes.com >and it turns out that it's true. The Snopes page is at >http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.php. > >--------------------------------------------------------- >ISSUE: It's rare we get to send out an Alert asking you to >*thank* folks >for doing the RIGHT thing. It's our joy to send this one out today. > >A story at CitizenLink.org notes that, with more than 110,000 >reservists >taking part in the U.S. effort in Iraq, several American >companies are going >the extra mile to support them. Dozens of companies are offering them >extras, including UPS, IBM, Conoco and Dell Computer Corp. One >of the best >examples, though, is Sears: their company is supporting the troops by >making up the difference between reservists' pay and their >regular salary at >Sears for up to two years. > >Even though, like every other business, Sears is dealing with >a struggling >economy, the retailer says simply helping their customers isn't enough. >Sears' compensation of reservists is believed to be the most >generous of any >major company in America, but company spokeswoman Jan Drummond >said it was >an easy decision. > >"Sears grew up in America," Drummond said. "Frankly it was not >a difficult >or complicated decision to come to. It was the right thing to do." > >Sears is going well above the call of duty. The law requires >that a company >hold a reservist's job while he is serving, but little else. >Sears employs >about 500 reservists. >--------------------------------------------------------- > >Whether it's a straight indirect marketing move or a genuine >support doesn't >matter to me. That they're doing it says a lot. I *might* >actually shop >from there again! > >Until Later! >Hatton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89 70.5
