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Posted By	Discussion Topic: FU Cindy Williams
Reign	posted on 02-13-2002 @ 9:43 AM
Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00	I was just sent this and had to send out a big fat FU to that has been pampered bitch who should be on the streets eating garbage out of Jim Nortons ass. Overpaid Military? On 12 November, Ms Cindy Williams (from the Laverne and Shirley TV show) wrote a piece for the Washington Times denouncing the pay raise(s) coming service members' way this year - citing that the stated 13% wage gap was bogus. A young airman from Hill AFB responds to her article below. He ought to get a bonus for this! Ms. Williams: I just had the pleasure of reading your column of 12 Nov. "Our GIs earn enough" and I am a bit confused. Frankly, I'm wondering where this vaunted overpayment is going, because as far as I can tell, it disappears every month between DFAS (The Defense Finance and Accounting Service) and my bank account. Checking my latest leave and earnings statement (LES), I see that I make $1,117.80, before taxes. After taxes, I take home $874.20. When I run that through Windows' Calculator, I come up with an annual salary of $13,413.60 before taxes, and $10,490.40 after. I work in the Air Force Network Control Center (AFNCC), where I am part of the team responsible for the administration of a 5,000-host computer network. I am involved with infra-structure segments, specifically with Cisco Systems equipment. A quick check under jobs for Network Technicians in the Washington, D.C. area reveals a position in my career field, requiring three years experience with my job. Amazingly, this job does NOT pay $13,413.60 a year, nor does it pay less than this. No, this job is being offered at $70,000 to $80,000 per annum. I'm sure you can draw the obvious conclusions. Also, you tout increases to Basic Allowance for Housing and Basic Allowance for Subsistence (housing and food allowances, respectively) as being a further boon to an already over-compensated force. Again, I'm curious as to where this money has gone, as BAH and BAS were both slashed 15% in the Hill AFB area effective in January 00. Given the tenor of your column, I would assume that you have NEVER had the pleasure of serving your country in her armed forces. Before you take it upon yourself to once more castigate congressional and DOD leadership for attempting to get the families in the military's lowest pay brackets off AFDC, WIC, and food stamps, I suggest that you join a group of deploying soldiers headed for AFGHANISTAN, I leave the choice of service branch up to you. Whatever choice you make, though, opt for the SIX month rotation: it will guarantee you the longest possible time away from your family and friends, thus giving you full "deployment experience". As your group prepares to board the plane, make sure to note the spouses and children who are saying good-bye to their loved ones. Also take care to note that several families are still unsure of how they'll be able to make ends meet while the primary breadwinner is gone-obviously they've been squandering the vast piles of cash the DOD has been giving them. Try to deploy over a major holiday; Christmas and Thanksgiving are perennial favorites. And when you're actually over there, sitting in a DFP (Defensive Fire Position, the modern-day foxhole), shivering against the cold desert night, and the flight sergeant tells you that there aren't enough people on shift to relieve you for chow, remember this: trade whatever MRE (meal-ready-to-eat) you manage to get for the tuna noodle casserole or cheese tortellini, and add Tabasco to everything, This gives some flavor. Talk to your loved ones as often as you are permitted; it won't nearly be long enough or often enough, but take what you can get and be thankful for it. You may have picked up on the fact that I disagree with most of the points you present in your op-ed piece. But, tomorrow from KABUL, I will defend to the death your right to say it. You see, I am an American fighting man, a guarantor of your First Amendment rights and every other right you cherish. On a daily basis, my brother and sister soldiers worldwide ensure that you and people like you can thumb your collective nose at us, all on a salary that is nothing short of pitiful and under conditions that would make most people cringe. We hemorrhage our best and brightest into the private sector because we can't offer the stability and pay of civilian companies. And you, Ms. Williams, have the gall to say that we make more than we deserve? Rubbish! A1C Michael Bragg, Hill AFB, AFNCC
zootybang	posted on 02-13-2002 @ 1:18 PM
Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00	Nice! And when he was done typing that, he should have rolled It up, and shoved It up that cunts asshole. It's pretty easy to criticise someone elses pay when you're still collecting fat royalty checks from your syndicated show. God loves you.it's everyone else that thinks you're an asshole. Posting regularly,yet still a lowly lurker.
Tony Metropolis	posted on 02-13-2002 @ 2:19 PM
Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01	I love it when these Hollywood fat-heads think they have the solution to all life's problems and write their little columns about it. YOU ACT. Shut up and do your job and act, you stupid, uninformd twat! No one gives a fuck what you think outside the television, just perform your simplistic task of acting all kooky for a living and collecting royalty checks and stick your nose out of important affairs, cunt-rag!. "Yeah, I know what 2 + 2 is. It's Thomas Jefferson, sucka!"
GonzoStyle	posted on 02-13-2002 @ 2:27 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	I'm surprised it wasn't Rosie O'donell who said something like this. Fuckin hypocrites like them make me really sick. Rosie is against guns yet she did spots for K-mart and sent armed guards to school with her kid. Now she's gonna be coming out of the closet and officially anouncing she is gay.... oh wow what a fuckin shocking surprise. Yet these fuckin cunts sit on their ass and rake in money for what? I bet Cindy Williams doesn't write her columns for the artistic merit. I'm Deep Inside Your Children. They Will Betray You In MY Name.
OAAWITE	posted on 02-13-2002 @ 2:33 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	Do you think when she wrote the letter into the paper, she just signed her name, or did she have to put "Remember, I was in Laverne and Shirley. No, not that one. She had the 'L' on her shirt. I was the other one. Remember the boring one? Yeah that was me."

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