Government Lies
If you were a young man in the 1950’s-1960’s and were introduced to the draft you probably are familiar with the fact that the US Government LIES to us on a regular and systemic basis. If you visited a recruiter you were told that if you enlisted and stayed in for 20 years you would be able to retire with a pension equal to half your pay for the remainder of your life plus free medical care and access to the Base Exchange and Commissary.
The lies began right then. You think of your pay as what you get in your check every month, but not the military! Approximately 2/3rds of you monthly check is ‘pay’ while the rest is ‘allowances’. Allowances include a housing allowance, a food allowance, and a military clothing allowance (for enlisted only), plus possibly flight allowance if you are air crew, and a myriad of other allowances for other specialties if you qualify for them. When you finally do figure it out you realize that if you are getting $3000 per month total before deductions of tax and Social Security, the portion of that check that is ‘pay’ is about $2,000 and that is what you get half of.
Then there is the part of the ‘free medical care.’ During the 1970’s congress decided to balance the budget (as if) by making retired military pay for medical care by forcing retired members to join Medicare at age 65 and to pay for Tricare between retirement and age 65. I know a lot of people have to pay more for their medical insurance, but that is not the point … the government LIED to the young men it was recruiting into the military. I know corporations due as bad or worse to their retirees, but again that is not the point. The government lies to us – the people we elect to represent us lie to us.
Now the government wants us to take an experimental ‘vaccine’ and this is the part that gets to me; for all the hate directed at Trump, he is the one who promoted ‘Operation Warp Speed’ to get the vaccine in the hands of injectors, and who promoted giving drug makers legal cover if the vaccines turn out to be defective in any way. Yet Biden is trying to take credit for getting everyone vaccinated and working on punishments for those of us who don’t want the vaccine. This makes no sense to me unless you consider that there must be somewhere people making a LOT of money out of this!
Am I really the only one who sees this as something more then we are being led to believe?
The lies began right then. You think of your pay as what you get in your check every month, but not the military! Approximately 2/3rds of you monthly check is ‘pay’ while the rest is ‘allowances’. Allowances include a housing allowance, a food allowance, and a military clothing allowance (for enlisted only), plus possibly flight allowance if you are air crew, and a myriad of other allowances for other specialties if you qualify for them. When you finally do figure it out you realize that if you are getting $3000 per month total before deductions of tax and Social Security, the portion of that check that is ‘pay’ is about $2,000 and that is what you get half of.
Then there is the part of the ‘free medical care.’ During the 1970’s congress decided to balance the budget (as if) by making retired military pay for medical care by forcing retired members to join Medicare at age 65 and to pay for Tricare between retirement and age 65. I know a lot of people have to pay more for their medical insurance, but that is not the point … the government LIED to the young men it was recruiting into the military. I know corporations due as bad or worse to their retirees, but again that is not the point. The government lies to us – the people we elect to represent us lie to us.
Now the government wants us to take an experimental ‘vaccine’ and this is the part that gets to me; for all the hate directed at Trump, he is the one who promoted ‘Operation Warp Speed’ to get the vaccine in the hands of injectors, and who promoted giving drug makers legal cover if the vaccines turn out to be defective in any way. Yet Biden is trying to take credit for getting everyone vaccinated and working on punishments for those of us who don’t want the vaccine. This makes no sense to me unless you consider that there must be somewhere people making a LOT of money out of this!
Am I really the only one who sees this as something more then we are being led to believe?
Young and naive people have been misled by the feds for over 100 years. That has always been unforgivable, imo.
sor (such as the French Revolutionary Republic) would be justified in disclaiming responsibility for the previous promise, but short of that, no.