MEDALS
Now medals are nice but small compensation for having our pensions clawed back and once again relegating us from the lower middle class to the ranks of the poor. My two tours of Germany, five years in total, were the best I ever achieved economically during my sixteen years of service. Service in Canada was much more arduous and actually we spent more time away from our families than with them not to mention that the level of pay was barely above that of a welfare recipient.
The accompanying pictures are part of my ongoing ritual for each day. Yesterday was Pension Day and welfare Wednesday and I went to the main post office and got $20.00 worth of stamps which ended up costing me close to thirty dollars after all the various taxes were added in.
Ciao, JWL
I have been having a continuing discussion of late with my PC
Representative concerning the 'clawback'. He insists that NO ONE lost any
amount of their pension money in 1998. The authority for this reduction
however is contained in Section 15(2) (b) of the CFSA. Here is the good
part........the Supplementary Benefit which is determined by the amount of
your CFSA (a percentage thereof) was also affected and, "consequently the
SB was also reduced in 1998. WOW!!! I had the Pensions Office give me the
formula for figuring out the loss that each man and woman suffered. Yet the
present governing Party insists that did not happen!!! So, I will be back
to visit with my Rep at the earliest available time. You can tell which way
he is voting, right?
However, all that will be forgotten once we pin that shiny medal that you
mention, on our chests, for yet another successful period in our history.
Who needs the money? Keep up the good commentaries and thoughts my old
friend, I enjoy them. DJD
I gotta agree with Doug. Back in the day you were known as a jock strapper
but behind that facade you were, (and still are) deep in your heart a poet.
You look at things with an artist's eye. The homeless old soldier, who
suffers from PTSD, eases the pain of reality and dulls the sharp edges of
existence with booze - and he lays upon the meanstreets because he has
turned 65. They kick him out of his flea bag hotel rental room because
after getting clawed back he can no longer affort both booze and rent. His
wife left him years ago because he drinks and now he is homeless. What
caused him becoming homeless? Was it perhaps His friendly Canadian
Government clawing back his small Army Pension? Just food for thought. Be
well my friend. billy
YO DOUG AND BILLY,
The "claw back" really didn't apply to me, i took a payout although the pay
office tried to convince me to hook up with the service pension at sixty
five, what a swindle that would have been.
i support the guys who did their twenty and out and more
and will work hard to dis elect any of those politicos who vote against
C101.