How much do you want to subsidize this?

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In 20 years as a Navy dependant wife, I never once was so strapped for cash, that I could not afford bus fare. Even in the early, lean years, before Reagan.

Are we supposed to pity sailors and their families now because they will no longer get free rides?

Single sailors who live aboard ship can well afford to pay fare. Married sailors either get a healthy housing and subsistance allowance, or have housing provided, with most utilities paid. They shop on base and pay no sales taxes there and food costs are 20-26% lower than elsewhere. Financial problems are usually temporary in nature due to rapid elevation in rank and yearly colas.

Am I the only one tired of hearing how poor the enlisted ranks are? Navy Marine Corp Relief Society has volunteers dedicated to show these folks to live WITHIN

http://www.thesunlink.com/news/2000/january/0105a1a.html

-- Marsha (acorn_nut@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000

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their means.

Bremerton Sun, 01/05/00 There may be no such thing as a free ride for military personnel after I-695 A popular program giving free bus rides to military personnel and their families may be smothered in its infancy by Initiative 695 pressures.

Shorelink, kicked off with much fanfare last Feb. 1, is due for renewal at the end of this month. But the Navy's cost for the Kitsap Transit program will quadruple from $24,000 to $104,000.

http://www.thesunlink.com/news/2000/january/0105a1a.html

-- Marsha (acorn_nut@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000.


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