Obama takes a lesson from Israel
President Obama has stopped the extra $225 per month that American combat soldiers receive as compared with other soldiers.Unfortunately, as far as I know, that's how it works here in Israel too. The pencil pushers and computer programmers in the IDF make the same pay (and get the same benefits when they leave) as the combat soldiers. That way the rich kids from North Tel Aviv, who go to intelligence and sit behind a desk, get paid the same thing as the mistarvim (kids who dress up as terrorists to infiltrate the terror groups) from Judea and Samaria.
The officers get a bit more.
It sure doesn't seem fair.
Labels: IDF
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:53 PM
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Class envy rhetoric? I know of "rich" kids who have gone into the worst possible hellholes. And they go back and forth to their Ivy League grad schools. Maybe it's different in Israel? The change for the U.S. guys is that they are only paying on per diem (days deployed) rather than any month deployed. The Congress set up these cuts when they caved to the deals that said if they can't agree on other cuts, then they have at the military funds. We'll all pay for the marxists and the wimps in charge. But I hope the U.S. will continue to have the military as a shining leader in integration, equal opportunity, and not class distinctions and bickering.
When David & his men went to save their kidnapped families some of the men were unable to continue all the way. so they stayed back to watch the stuff. After their victory the men who fought didn't want to share the spoils but David put a stop to that he declared all the men were to share the same.
That is actually incorrect for Israel - combat soldiers don't get paid very much, but they still receive about twice as much as those in Tel Aviv.
Hmmm......Makes you wonder why he charges $ 35,000 for dinner with him, he considers that 'imminent danger'?
Carl - I believe that is not the case in Zahal - "kravi" (combat) soldiers get significantly more than "Jobnikim" (non-combat).
Carl. That's absolutely not true. Combat soldiers get about twice as much as non-combat. I got 2 boys in the army right now. I see their pay slips and it clearly provides for a addition for combat.
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