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Quoting Juliette:" <blockquote><b>Quoting lovinthem04:</b>" LOL! This is all the more reason they should ... [snip!] ... join the army... don't complain that you.don't make enough money. You made the choice not to. Eh. Opinions are like smurfs."

I don't hear many soldiers complain about making more. They do however complain about people who dumb down what they do and try to act like they understand it if they don't. I'm not saying that's you, I was just saying what I do hear complaints about.

Quoting Dr. Paradigm Shift:" The government doesn't pay them, what they make has zero effect on anyone in the military or otherwise. It's a stupid comparison of two things that aren't related. "

I understand that the government doesn't pay football players. I just think that we take sports way too serious and pay way too much into them. But I'm a little bias ;) My husband doesn't complain about his job, or what he gets paid. He gets worn out, don't get me wrong. But I still think he is under paid for what he does.

Quoting saageex3:" Agreed lol. I think that most people who get paid better are basically not doing smurf or anything to ... [snip!] ... society. I feel like fireman, police officers, military, teachers, doctors etc don't get paid nearly as much as they should."

Believe it or not, football players (and other famous people) do a lot for society...Most anyway...

http://www.looktothestars.org/

<blockquote><b>Quoting lovinthem04:</b>" I don't hear many soldiers complain about making more. They do however complain about people who dumb ... [snip!] ... try to act like they understand it if they don't. I'm not saying that's you, I was just saying what I do hear complaints about."</blockquote>




I've grown up around military and that's what I hear. Military complaining that they should make more and that they can't raise a family on what they make.... but that's the decision they made. That annoys me. If I would have been able to join I would have served my time before starting a family.

And your right in a perfect world... they would make more. But its not a perfect world and the government doesn't pay football players

Quoting lovinthem04:" I understand that the government doesn't pay football players. I just think that we take sports way ... [snip!] ... about his job, or what he gets paid. He gets worn out, don't get me wrong. But I still think he is under paid for what he does."

I don't watch sports, or anything like that, but to the people who do, it's apparently worth supporting players with overblown bank accounts and egos. Until they all say, "this is bullsmurf, I'm not watching any more sports until so and so takes a pay cut" That's just the way it's gonna be. I definitely think a lot of athletes are overpaid, as are reality tv stars and such.

Quoting Juliette:" If they still used the draft system then I would agree. But.... you know what your signing up for when you join the military. Don't sign up then complain."

   

Quoting Not tellin:" I complain for them. They provide a service that is worth far more than what they are paid. Their lives ... [snip!] ... hat who gets millions of $$$ for playing 15 games in a contract. Then goes on strike because they think they need more money."

Not everyone joins for "the love of their country". Some join to pay for school or because they just weren't good at anything else (going to school, etc.). It's a decent pay if you're not educated...
And some do it just to travel and some because they're psycho and want to blow stuff up.

Quoting lovinthem04:" or maybe football players shouldn't be making millions of dollars..."

They have a talent. They should get paid for that talent. If people want to pay money to see them, that's on them...

Quoting lovinthem04:" I don't hear many soldiers complain about making more. They do however complain about people who dumb ... [snip!] ... try to act like they understand it if they don't. I'm not saying that's you, I was just saying what I do hear complaints about."

LOL I do...

Well since I am super hormonal and am starting to take offense to this post, I think I will get out of here lol...my pregnancy hormones are getting the best of me tonight. Not too mention I am a lot more sensitive to this sort of thing when my DH is deployed.  

Quoting Juliette:" <blockquote><b>Quoting lovinthem04:</b>" I don't hear many soldiers complain about ... [snip!] ... right in a perfect world... they would make more. But its not a perfect world and the government doesn't pay football players"

It annoys me too.

The military doesn't pay bad. It's having ten kids, driving a $30,000 Charger, and spending beyond your means that eats up your pay and it's not the government's fault, it's yours.

I get sometimes bad things happen (illness, death, divorce, etc.) but what I'm talking about are people who are gainfully employed by the military who complain, complain, complain. They knew how much they were going to make going in and besides, they get benefits out the wazoo that add up to A LOT of money. Hell, I didn't pay a single penny for my pregnancy or my son's birth. We haven't paid any money for his health since then except a couple of tests that weren't covered because they weren't totally necessary. Until he's 26 he will have healthcare and that's worth a lot to me.

Another thing, if you think you're not making enough money, you probably shouldn't be having kids nonstop while the spouse stays at home. It seems like a lot of the people I know who complain about military pay have three plus kids when they're only bringing in [say] $3,200 a month and that just seems dumb.

Kinda OT: What grosses me out is when sports players go on strike because they're only making a couple of million   That's just offensive to me.

Quoting Derp:" It annoys me too. The military doesn't pay bad. It's having ten kids, driving a $30,000 Charger, and ... [snip!] ... complain about military pay have three plus kids when they're only bringing in [say] $3,200 a month and that just seems dumb. "

 

Quoting Derp:" Kinda OT: What grosses me out is when sports players go on strike because they're only making a couple of million   That's just offensive to me."

Totally offensive.

I don't care. The two have nothing to do with each other. It's not as if football players are taking money out of the hands of "heroes" and somehow by being an overpaid football player it's diminishing the pay someone else in a completely different profession receives.

When you choose your career, you choose it knowing roughly what you will make in it. If you don't like it, get some training and get a different career.

You know how football players could make less? If people stopped watching football on TV, purchasing merchandise, and going to games. They get paid what they do because people pay to watch them do it.

You know how the US government could afford to pay military personnel more? If there were fewer people to pay and it got rid of the ridiculous level of defence spending and downsized the military from the porker of an industry it is, to a smaller, more specialized one. If they placed less emphasis on perpetual foreign war and an absurdly large standing army, and more emphasis on smaller but better trained units of intelligence gatherers and special forces, I'll betcha the salary for the military would skyrocket.