I think I should post this here too.

I saw this comment:

at this ontd_political entry, and wrote this rant-type thing:

Basic pay for active duty soldiers in the Army tops out at a mere 34,088. And that's only IF the person has six years of experience and is at the rank of Staff Sargent.

Congressfucks make $174,000.

RAGE SO MUCH FUCKING RAGE

and I wrote:

Damn, we could live easy on that! For perspective, my husband's military rank and experience are circled in red:



And little as that is, despite living on post and having rent, electric, and water covered by that (besides, we pay for that out of our BAH), we have all this extra shit we wind up having to pay for, like "rent" for housing the first half-month, our time at the post inn until we could get it reimbursed by finance (we're still catching up on bills from all the stuff we had to pay for out of pocket in November), winter stuff we had to buy out of pocket because we were sent from our home in Florida, where we grew up, to first Alaska and then New York, and all the trips to military clothing sales to get stuff here and there that adds up, and the new dress uniforms, that look even worse than the Marine ones, are not being issued! We're gonna have to pay for that shit out of pocket! And we still have the car payment, the car insurance, my student loans for the degree it's damn hard to use when you move every three years, and it's hard for me to work at all because the taxis on post are unreliable and there's no decent public transport in the Watertown area and we can't afford a second car and even if we could the military would only ship one because spouses are supposed to stay home? Fuck you, Uncle Sam, spouses are people too, and most of us work, or want to!

/sorry for the rant, but it's a lot of bullshit that military families have to deal with--don't get me started on how little I see my husband and how much they're pressuring him to get promoted to SGT so I can see even less of him... *DEEP BREATH*

What do you think? Expand this into some sort of essay, or more stream-of-consciousness angry army wife rambling, or leave it?

(And I forgot to mention how crappy the housing was. :P)