4679. INEQUITUDE LIKE TUESDAY

INEQUITUDE LIKE TUESDAY

(true story today)

That car keeps following me around.

That driver, I know, is a sinner. I can

tell he steals diamonds from mines.

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All these birds are kept in glass cages;

a hotel lobby no bigger than Hell.

The guy comes over and starts talking.

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About 'retirement', he says. I'm suspicious.

I neither know the guy nor like what I see.

He says he's 31, already double-dipping, in

the military, a Black-Hawk helicopter mechanic,

and wants to keep doing that until 60. Full pay

from the military, as a soldier, and another

pay as a combat-level mechanic.

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The 'pension' he says goes like this : he can stay

working at Wrightstown, for twenty years, and 50

per cent vested pension, and then do the same as

 a mechanic and get 50 there. He says 'people

misunderstand '20 and out'. After twenty, it's only

50% -   you have to work 40 years to get 100%.

I'm not working for 40    instead I can work for

20, double-dip, and get the equivalent of 100%

at two levels of 50%.' Then he asked if I understood.

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I'm so fucking proud of my God-damned nation.