Decline of unions definitely hurt workers....wages, benefits, decline in response. There's nothing a worker has in their corner now and a strong work ethic gets a person kicked in the throat. The company has all the power. Neither candidate cares for the middle class which I believe is defined at about 120 thousand Healy household income. Anything lower is poor.
Nahh.. 120k ain't shit once you have it. You really need between 700-900k per year to live right. Of course, when everyone is making that, it will need to double or triple every few years to keep up with inflation.
Guess nobody in the military lives right, because they will never see that kind of money while serving, even if they make it all the way to the highest rank of the enlisted which is E9.
If they have a college degree, and manage to come in as an officer, they still won't make it to 700k per year.
Me? I retired as an E-6 over 20 years and was only making 36,000/yr my last year in.
Ah... well, we all just get a protest sign and demand it... right? I mean, that's what works! We start whining and moaning about it and keep demanding it on message boards, beating people down who oppose it, accusing them of being racists and bigots, destroy opposition on all levels, get some politicians on board through our activism and hey.... we can make this happen!
I'm simply making the point that $100k a year is chump change once you have it. You'd be surprised just how quickly you would blow through that and then you look around and here's this guy over here making a million dollars a year... it's not FAIR. So forget about $100k being a reasonable living... let's go for $700k... or $900k... or why not just say $1mil? Why not man?
I guess you missed the point of the post. You said that 125,000/yr ain't squat and to live right, you had to make 700 to 900 thousand/yr.
I simply told you that nobody in the military is living right if that is what you consider enough to live right, because the majority of the military earns less than 50,000/year. And, while you consider less than 100,000/yr to be chump change, most of the military manages to live a decent life on less than half of that.
Would I like it if our military was actually paid what they were worth? You bet. I personally believe that starting pay for the military should be what it is for police officers or better, because you sure as hell don't join the military for the pay.
I know. I served 20 years in the Navy.