The Goat Pen

Professor Tiger wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 4:38 pm

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:45 am FERS is better than retired military pay for a Major with 20+ years active duty? I must be missing something. If you retired as a major with 20 years of service in 2002, you would be receiving around $3,250.00-$3,500.00 per month in military retirement pay. you must have retired at 20 in your early 40's years ago and then hit the 50% mark at FBP without hitting 20 years due to some sort of floating deal with age versus years of service (given fbp/law enforcement having different retirement ages). I practice family law and have done so for ten years in two military towns. So, I have divided up my fair share of military retirements and FERS retirements as well, including FBP retirees like yourself. I'm not doubting you, but I haven't seen a FBP retiree with a FERS that's considerably better than that monthly check from the DFAS teet. Please elaborate because I am curious as to how much a damn prison chaplain makes in the FBP. It must be close to six figures and thus GS-12 or higher.

I'm sure Prof is getting VA disability too. Heck, if you have sleep apnea when you retire from the military, that's a fifty percent disability rating for VA purposes. You can get close to $3,300.00 in VA disability (I know you must be getting at least $2k per month because you get that for sneezing hard), and it's tax free. That's on top of his military retirement, but don't worry: I'm not going to delve into CRDP versus CRSC, Prof.

I will give an example from a hearing I had to sit through recently (pre-pandemic) before my hearing started (and since this isn't my client or case, I am. not violating confidentiality). These were the figures presented, and given my experience, the figures are not exaggerated. The husband is a retired E-9 (highest enlisted rank; Sergeant Major in the Army) with 30+ years of service (the amount needed to hit 75% of the average of your highest three years in the service if you entered between 80-86...100% at 40 years) and not even so much as an associates degree who receives the following:
1) a pension well in excess of $60,000.00 per year;
2) nearly $40,000.00 per year TAX FREE for a 100% VA disability rating; and wait for it...
3) PLUS a $84,000.00 per year civil service job despite the fact that the federal government has declared him to be disabled;
4) Add on top of that free health care and having two forms of government provided health insurance that will combine to insure he will never pay a medical bill.

If this gentlemen was self employed, he would need to earn at least $235,000.00 per year (rough estimate) to have the type of disposable income that this person's current government payments provide, and the guy would need to pay for high end insurance that will still have a deductible and still not provide as much coverage. Plus, that $235k amount does not include the amount the person would need to save and invest each year for a retirement on par with his current lifestyle.

So, let's summarize: Prof is receiving health insurance free of charge from two separate government programs and over $100,000.00 per year in government income, but Prof is a self proclaimed conservative libertarian who hates socialism, welfare, big government, social security, universal healthcare, etc.

I am flattered by your intense interest in the details of my retirement, DS. You obviously put a lot of time and effort theorizing, researching your theories, running some numbers, compiling your findings and posting them here. A lot of hard, solid work. Bravo.

That said, I am not paying that damn bill you you sent me for all that hard, solid work.

Professor Tiger wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 5:02 pm PS, there is no conflict between my gallant public service and my libertarian principles.

Even staunch Libertarians like me have no problem with the federal government doing what it is authorized to do by the Constitution. And the military and prisons are right there in the Constitution:

Military:

Article 1 section 8; “The Congress shall have power to.., provide for the common defense... To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;...To provide and maintain a navy;

Prisons:

Eighth Amendment: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

If I had spent all that time in a part of the federal government that was extra-constitutional, like supervising federally funded midnight basketball games, or administrating federal mohair subsidies, then you would have had a point.

hedge wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 7:48 pm You're a leech. A parasite. Nothing more....

Nutramigen

I do not see where it requires or authorizes a standing army.

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 1:39 am The cheapest we have found is the 19.5 oz can for $40.99 at Buy Buy Baby.

There may be something more serious than just "colick." It's nothing major per se, but the pediatrician said that if she does have it (pyloric stenosis), she will need to undergo surgery.

The vomiting is intense. Reminds me of myself from the ages of 15 through 30...

GBJs wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 12:49 am

I do not see where it requires or authorizes a standing army.

if you wait until you need one before you raise one, you won't need one very long. Fly Navy.