Toon- The next bubble

[n2doc]

[90-percent]

1. Support our troops

until the sticker is sun bleached. then take it off and forget about it. It's not 2005 any more.

So what? They volunteered!


-90% Jimmy

[zeemike]

2. I hear McDonalds is hireing.

they are allways needing new workers as the old ones become homeless because they can't make it on what they pay...

[dickthegrouch]

3. $1000/day combat pay is going to be hard to give up

I hope they've saved some for the rainy days ahead.

[DCKit]

6. Where did THAT number come from?

The number of military families on assistance is huge.

[Submariner]

7. Imminent danger (combat) pay is $225.00 per day n/t

[happyslug]

8. Sources say it is $225 per MONTH

$150 per month prior to 2003, starting in 2003 it was $225 per month

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=101262,00.html
http://www.jag.navy.mil/organization/documents/tax/Summary%20of%20Combat%20Zone%20Tax%20Benefits-Tri-Fold-09.pdf
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/fy2009paycharts/a/combat.-uV_.htm

[quakerboy]

11. I think you must be thinking of contractors

No way our soldiers are making that. The merc's who are staying put in Iraq after the official pull out, still on our payroll, maybe. But not our US military personnel.

[patrice]

4. Any bets on which group is going to have the lower hire-rate?

Some VERY complicated issues here.

If civilians make faulty decisions in "choosing" their "career path", it is assumed that is THEIR problem and that there is nothing wrong with the economic systems in which their reversal of fortunes manifest.

[ellisonz]

9. Nope.

I wouldn't take that bet even if I had $10,000 to spare on chest-pumping.

[patrice]

5. Volunteering to believe the LIES of War = Volunteering to believe the LIES of a career in IT.

e.g. "Contract to hire".

[Taverner]

10. But...but...we need austerity measures!!!!!

We need to cut back on everything!!!!

Well, except tax loopholes for the *job creators*

You're just envious