[Redleg Duke]

"How can military pensions be growing when we have cut our military?"

Because we have renegged on the unspoken understanding that we were to have the common courtesy of dying young.

After all, they used to provide cigarettes in the C-Rations. We were never supposed to survive the wars. We weren't supposed to take those retirement offers seriously.

Bottom line, those who avoided service are now in charge and getting even with those of us who did serve, while they ridiculed us for doing so.

[Venturer]

I think you have a very valid point.