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| 2017-10-10 |
| [Family Security Matters] An Army recruit starts off with a salary under $20,000. Thousands of active duty military personnel are on food stamps. Millions of veterans rely on them to feed their families and themselves. That's how we treat the best of us. Here's how we treat the worst of us. An NFL rookie's minimum salary is $465,000. And the majority of NFL players are usually bankrupt a few years after retirement because they blew through most of their money. Dozens of NFL players are arrested every year on charges ranging from murder to rape to animal abuse. 2017 was a banner year for the NFL with three times as many arrests as last year. Along with the usual drunk driving and disorderly conduct arrests, there were 7 arrests for assault/battery, 6 for drugs and 5 for domestic violence. The Seattle Seahawks announced that they weren't going to "participate in the national anthem" because of the "injustice that has plagued people of color in this country". While they lost that game, they are one of the top ranked teams in arrests. Alongside the Los Angeles Rams, the Green Bay Packers and the New York Jets, all of whom showed some solidarity with the anti-American protests, these top NFL criminal teams have racked up arrests for domestic violence, drugs, DUI and assault and battery. It's no wonder that so many of the NFL's millionaire scumbags are eager to join Colin Kaepernick's protests against the justice system by degrading our anthem. It's because they're criminals. And it's no wonder that the NFL stands behind its thugs. If a team can shrug at abusing women, what's a little anti-American tantrum by a prize property that makes them millions of dollars? The only question is why are the rest of us subsidizing it? NFL teams loot millions from taxpayers to fund their stadiums. The Seahawks have a point about injustice. And the injustice is that taxpayers had to spend $390 million on their stadium. Who will let Washington taxpayers take a knee and opt out of being exploited by the Seahawks? Ten New Orleans Saints players sat out the anthem. New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton expressed pride in the players who rejected the United States of America. The Saints not only enjoy a stadium paid for by a billion in taxpayer money in a city with one of the highest poverty rates in the country, but are exempt from sales tax. And receive millions every year in "inducement payments" to stay put. Sweetheart deals like these are not uncommon. The NFL comes with a pass on property taxes (those are for little people) and taxes in general. Until 2015, the NFL was a non-profit. "Professional football leagues" was actually inserted into the Internal Revenue Code to provide a special non-profit status. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell got paid $44 million in one year. That made him the highest paid non-profit exec in the country. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 An Army recruit starts off with a salary under $20,000 You see it too many times. Married to a high school sweetheart with 1.5 or 2 children that follow him/her out of boot and live offbase in a rented trailer while the soldier lives onbase in the barracks and eats at the mess. They can afford diapers and formula, food, rent or gas. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-10 12:11 |