[Felix The Assassin]

This is just wonderful (wunderbar)!
This year my HMO for life is reasonable, next year it will go up 75%, and by 09 it will be thrice of what I pay this year! My Dental for life is already the single most health care issue I pay, and it will double over the next three years.
My Vocational training has been shortened by 12 months. As it is, already on a reduced time line, it will now only take me through 30 months.

In review, I served 23 years, 3 months 16 days. Contributed $100 a month for my entire first term enlistment, and now I must finish my vocational program NLT 1 Nov 08, or finish under my own funding.
I must pay for treatment, even at the military treatment facility, or at the VA for non-disability rated issues.
My prescriptions, (the single best benefit) will increase by 1/3 through FY 09.
My retirement is already taxed, but now the disability supplement is coming into the sight picture as well. Wonder what else might be moving into the sight picture?

TL, For the record; As a DA Contractor, I receive a very adequate salary. However, as compared to the lawmakers themselves, I still only compare to the string, of the bag, that holds the gold!

“With malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation’s wounds,
to care for him who shall have borne the battle
and for his widow, and his orphan,
to do all which may achieve and cherish
a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

President Lincoln’s second inaugural address, 4 Mar 1865.