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Old 12-21-16, 10:04 AM   #31
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Members are eligible for a pension at age 50 if they have completed 20 years of service, or at any age after completing 25 years of service. The amount of the pension depends on years of service and the average of the highest three years of salary.
Interesting bit of redundancy there. Since a Senator must be at least thirty years of age, after twenty years he or she will be at least fifty. You can't run for the House unless you're twenty-five, so "any age" will again be at least fifty after twenty-five years of service.

Maybe they just wanted to be extra sure...
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Old 12-21-16, 02:26 PM   #32
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Interesting bit of redundancy there. Since a Senator must be at least thirty years of age, after twenty years he or she will be at least fifty. You can't run for the House unless you're twenty-five, so "any age" will again be at least fifty after twenty-five years of service.

Maybe they just wanted to be extra sure...
I wonder if they credit other government or military service time towards that total?
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Old 12-21-16, 03:31 PM   #33
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the final tally on her medical bills rested in the $115,000 range, of which we will be responsible for about $7,000 out of pocket.
Egads...well, that's one of the advantages we have here, you wouldn't have had to have paid a thing for that. That I'm aware of anyway, but the flipside is that you probably have a lot shorter waiting times for routine operations than here. However since she went through ER then I imagine they would have been fairly quick about it. I had abdomen pains about this time last year, had a horrid feeling that it was gall stones since my mother had had to have an op to remove her gall bladder the previous year and the pain I had was in the same region as the pain she had with her stones. Thankfully it turned out to have probably been trapped wind (which has no business being that painful), but for a little while the docs were unsure if it was my appendix and so I was pencilled in for a removal op which would have been done probably within 24 or so hours if we hadn't have both figured out that it was just trapped wind.
So the framework was there to get me into a quick operation as needed.
Again though, flipside, I don't live in an area which is too heavily populated and so our hospital probably isn't as overcrowded as the inner city ones.
It's all pros and cons really, I couldn't honestly stand up hand on heart and say that your daughter would have received better care in our healthcare system because I don't have the relevant data available to make that comparison, but with something like that...well, money is of a secondary concern at the time isn't it.
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I wonder if they credit other government or military service time towards that total?
Yes they do. Just like for every federal employee, federal service and military service do count. Double dipping regulations still apply.
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that he was going to "Drain the Swamp"

http://video.foxnews.com/v/525726933...#sp=show-clips

The clip is fun to watch, Lots of weaseling.

So exactly what did he promise again?
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20-30%? What on Earth are you guys doing?

I don't pretend that our system is perfect but it certainly seems a lot simpler. You pay in a certain percentage of contribution each paycheck, which varies depending on your pay rate, and that is all sent to the National Insurance Fund which then helps fund the service so that it is free of charge at point of delivery.
The US health care system seems complex for no reason other than the sake of being complex. I just don't get it.
At 30% he's got it good. I pay 50% of my take home pay for insurance with a $3,000 deductable. Unless something just about kills me, half my income vanishes with no possible benefit. as I have to pay for the service ANYWAY.

I pay more for insurance than the combination of the highest house payment plus the highest car payment I've ever made in my life. I could drive a new Mercedes and have enough left over for gas. I'd never WANT to drive a Mercedes though....
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Just like the strange weather ... the cold war is starting to heat up.
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Standard nuclear modernisation, Obama began it with SSBN-X, GBSD, NGB and the B61 programs, so nothing exactly new.

UK may want to look at it's nuclear deterent - 40 RVs/SSBN and 120 total is not exactly first class nowadays.
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Eh, it'll do, it's not as if we'll ever use it.
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Eh, it'll do, it's not as if we'll ever use it.
That kind of viewpoint undermines deterence, you know. Morever I am not sure if one could consider the UK deterent to be independently survivable.

Further offtopic - do you think that anyone would be interested if I make a separate thread about the Russian Armed Forces development.
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That kind of viewpoint undermines deterence, you know. Morever I am not sure if one could consider the UK deterent to be independently survivable.

Further offtopic - do you think that anyone would be interested if I make a separate thread about the Russian Armed Forces development.


Go for it though.
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Old 12-22-16, 05:27 PM   #43
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That kind of viewpoint undermines deterence, you know. Morever I am not sure if one could consider the UK deterent to be independently survivable.

Further offtopic - do you think that anyone would be interested if I make a separate thread about the Russian Armed Forces development.
Do it. With our new President, we will be working closely with Russia.
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Further offtopic - do you think that anyone would be interested if I make a separate thread about the Russian Armed Forces development.
I would, especially if it would cover info not available in English.
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I would, especially if it would cover info not available in English.
Why not ... nothing is too hard for translation team.

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