"Hazard pay" for Grocery workers is more than Soldiers in Afghanistan!

I lost a good friend in Afghanistan. And for what? What benefit to America came (or could have come) from our presence there? I sure as hell couldn't tell you.

America needs to mind its own business and get out of pointless wars halfway around the world.

Why should you get hazard pay for killing foreigners in their own country? You should have to pay them.

I didn’t know that the US military hired mercenaries in Afghanistan. Actually, I’m pretty sure that they didn’t.

outrageous! wrote:

Some cities are mandating "hazard pay" of up to $5.00 PER HOUR for grocery workers due to Covid. The military only gets $225 PER MONTH for hazardous duty pay, or about $7.50 PER DAY. I didn't realize that working in a grocery store was so much more dangerous than it was for me walking around Aqar Quf with an M4 a decade ago. This Covid must be serious!

https://www.eater.com/22302049/hazard-pay-grocery-stores-hero-pay-for-essential-workers-covid-19

Over 500,000 deaths and businesses that make billions off the back of low paid workers. Yea they probably should get more and you should have as well. Just think of all the CEO's out there and there multi-million dollar salaries.

More Americans have died from Covid than in the 2nd WW, Korea and Vietnam combined.

So hell, yeah, Grocery workers should earn a LOT more.

Statistically speaking you have a much higher chance of dying early as a grocery store worker in the US than a soldier so they probably should receive more hazard pay.

I guess the difference is they are doing essential work.

Dangerous work is an expected and 100% foreseen component of being a soldier.

You sound like one of those stolen valor morons. You probably find three different restaurants on vets day so you can get all 3 meals for free.

This thread is a pretty good example as to how vile and low liberals can be.

Why does deployed soldiers even get hazard pay? Isn't that literally what they signed up for? Props to them - but it's not like they were drafted these days.

2600 bro wrote:

Why does deployed soldiers even get hazard pay? Isn't that literally what they signed up for? Props to them - but it's not like they were drafted these days.

This argument could go both ways - grocery store workers know the risk right now, they can easily just quit if they don't like it, nobody is forcing them to be there unlike people in the military who are under contract. I wasn't really arguing for or against OP's point though, just commenting on the cheap shots in this thread made at people in the military.

It's a volunteer job for those who can't get into college. If they don't like it then they can quit anytime and get a job at Uber, Lyft, Door Dash.

I am confused... they are introducing hazard pay to incentivizes workers to NOT QUIT. Soldiers cannot quit - they know what they signed up for. False equivalence here.

Paradoxical wrote:

2600 bro wrote:

Why does deployed soldiers even get hazard pay? Isn't that literally what they signed up for? Props to them - but it's not like they were drafted these days.

This argument could go both ways - grocery store workers know the risk right now, they can easily just quit if they don't like it, nobody is forcing them to be there unlike people in the military who are under contract. I wasn't really arguing for or against OP's point though, just commenting on the cheap shots in this thread made at people in the military.

Paradoxical wrote:

2600 bro wrote:

Why does deployed soldiers even get hazard pay? Isn't that literally what they signed up for? Props to them - but it's not like they were drafted these days.

This argument could go both ways - grocery store workers know the risk right now, they can easily just quit if they don't like it, nobody is forcing them to be there unlike people in the military who are under contract. I wasn't really arguing for or against OP's point though, just commenting on the cheap shots in this thread made at people in the military.

Cheap shots? huh? What's cheap about them?

Are people in the military not shooting actual shots at actual people?

Sorry if I don't find that a compelling enough reason to give up my seat on an airplane for.

People are just tired of blind and unquestioned nationalism ruling the day. Is it not ok to express concern that our tax dollars are being spent sending our young out to kill people in other countries?

Why is this deemed honorable and acceptable in the US? Why has this been accepted as the norm?

Paradoxical wrote:

This thread is a pretty good example as to how vile and low liberals can be.

what are you even talking about?

I see a bunch of proud patriots standing up for the American way.

Just quit the Special Forces. Why put up with crap. There's millions of commandos at Cross Fit boxes who hated and quit the Special Forces. Dime a Dozen.

It was far more dangerous to be a young child in Afghanistan because of the war you and your cohorts drafted them into. How much did you give them in hazardous duty pay, medical benefits, etc.?

One of the greatest US Marines, Smedley Butler, pointed out that Marines were corporate mercenaries, comparable to Al Capone's gang on steroids with better weapons.

More grocery workers have died of COVID this year than the US military has had killed in OCO action since about 2013. Even soldiers are three times more likely to die from illness, accidents, suicides etc. at home in the US than they are while deployed nowadays. 2020 was actually an extraordinarily low year for soldier deaths even with COVID (active duty military has had 24 COVID deaths).

I'm not trying to take away from your service, which we greatly appreciate [my father served the army during Vietnam, my grandfathers both served in WWII (one enlisted young and was a Navy Medic assigned to the Marine Corp in the South Pacific through most of the war and was at Guadalcanal and a bunch of other hot spots) and my cousin / best friend / best man is a Coast Guard Aviator]. But just as you risked your life to protect Americans, so to do grocery workers, nurses and doctors during this pandemic and you shouldn't minimize their contribution to providing essential services.