Rush Limbaugh chain email I got :

[rpgamerd00d]

Here is a chain email I got, apparently from Rush:


Love him or loathe him, he nailed this one right on the head..........
By Rush Limbaugh:

I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the
entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.


If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.

Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.

Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers.

We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.

You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?

However, our own U.S. Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system.
If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed them in harm's way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.

I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
"When do we finally do something about this?" If this doesn't seem fair to you, it is time to forward this to as many people as you can.




Thoughts from DU ?

[ck4829]

1. Can't be Rush

I didn't see anything in there in which he blamed something on Liberals and/or Bill Clinton.

[meganmonkey]

2. Then why support Republicans

who routinely vote for cuts to the VA?

I mean, the points are valid, but anyone who supports Repubs has no right to complain since they put the people in office who screw the Vets, and who don't ensure that our soldiers have the right equipment, and who put our soldiers in harm's way for a pack of lies in the first place.

[MindPilot]

3. Check it on snopes, but I can't imagine limpballs saying

anything remotely supportive of the troops beyond sticking another yellow ribbon the the back of the SUV.

[kiraboo]

He's right about the entitlement attitude.

But he's missing the true rationale. There were a finite number of 9/11 victims. Military casualties never stop coming, especially with what this Administration has planned for our soldiers.

Say what they will about supporting the troops, the shrub and his supporters are all about treating them as a means to an end, and individually, as entirely disposable. It's vile.

[Inland]

4. Pfft. It's not him. nt

[fleabert]

5. snopes covers this

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/deathpay.asp

[StClone]

11. Thanks for Snopes link, and

One angle not noted here, nor in Snopes, is that Service people KNOW they have an increased possibility of violent death (DUH!) and sign off on life-lose compensation. Whereas working in a New York office building WERE in a low risk occupation and their deaths were not expected. The decision to compensate at some level was justified and not really comparable to wartime service casualties. Only a rabble rouser would push this for political gain = Dopey Rush.

[Mr_Spock]

12. Got the facts there...

That letter is 4 years old!!

[slor]

6. His people are running the show...

respond and tell him to ask bush about it. Oh, and ask him how his little promotion went, where he was charging the troops for some service, I cannot remember what it was, but he did not provide it for free.

[CornField]

7. It's a righteous rant -- only one thing missing

No mention of the $255 (total) benefit given when someone on social security dies.

[blm]

8. Does Rush know that it was John Kerry who pushed for greater compensation

for vets and their families? It was Bush and his cronies trying to get by with the insulting payoffs.

BushInc WANTED 9-11 families to get huge payoffs in hopes to silence them about his culpability.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Whether Rush said this or not...

the right wing has been bitching about compensating the 9/11 victims since, oh, a couple of days after the towers fell.

What assholes.

[richabk]

10. And wasn't the payments...

made on the condition of NOT suing anyone?

[FreakinDJ]

13. Clearly NOT Rush LimpDick

Too intelligent of an arguement

[genieroze]

14. Hey, a-holes have to be right once in awhile.

[FreakinDJ]

16. That paticular A-hole

certainly has reasons to hire ghost writers to help massage his image, ie: Drug addict, gas bag.

Not saying the message isn't correct, just that I would like to see the transcrips from his broadcast indicating 1 iota of that message was his.

[Donovan61]

15. If you join the military

you have to have an expectation that you may be called upon at some point to go into harm's way. If that happens, there is a good chance you could be wounded or killed. However, the victims on 9/11 were just ordinary working slobs who went to work that morning not expecting to be on the front line of a war even though their government had ample warning that terrorists were up to something and it was probably going to happen soon. I don't know what the victims are entitled to, but I'm pretty sure they are entitled not to have to take shit from a creep like Rush Limbaugh.