ah, morning

Yes, it is morning if you count the hours before dawn. No sign of light yet, so maybe, just maybe it is time t sneak in a few extra hours before I start this day.  Today, more discards, and more finds. Then, the fun is for the weekend. What will happen and what I'll do, that will be the adventure and the surprise. More later today.

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another example of how corporations screw america

 Hershey brings in foreign workers and works them at minimum wage...meanwhile what about local people? The workers come to this country to work and learn english.. and the visa program (J-1 visa) used is considered a 'cultural exchange'... yeah they learn alright, how to be screwed by American Corporations. Posted on Dreamwidth

now they want to screw the troops...

The Pentagon wants to change the military retirement system... when I was in service it was stay 20 years and you retired at half your pay, stay 30 years and you retired a 75% pay.. this meant if I had stayed in I could have retired at 41 years old and gone on to a second career. Now they are worried as these pension obligation keep climbing. Their excuse is that many serve less than 20 years and walk away with nothing. They want to change the formula and bring it more in line with 'civilian pension programs' and they have a bunch of civilian corporate executives studying the matter. No, they are really wanting to screw the veterans who serve because the cost of keeping these wars is getting higher  than they can handle, so rather than less wars, we need to screw the troops. I wonder what this will do to the concept of empire some of these war hawks like so much... they of coure promise that any changes won't impact current soldiers... don't want a whole bunch of volunteer soldiers leaving in droves.

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