The Cold & TRUE Heartless Face of Hussein Obama’s and the United Nations new best friend,Australia, Australian HATER and Socialist NERD, Australian Prime Minister and UN Secretary General WANNABEE & try HARD Kevin “07” Rudd
Pregnant war widow Breeanna Till left penniless
By Nick Leys
The Sunday Telegraph
September 26, 2009 7:11PM
SIX months after her husband was killed fighting in Afghanistan, Breeanna Till is broke – let down by the government that promised solemnly to look after her.
Heavily pregnant with the child Sergeant Brett Till will never know, the Sydney widow fears becoming like "a single mum on the dole" when she gives birth in a few weeks.
The $905 weekly pay her husband brought home lasted just a fortnight after he died in a roadside bomb explosion. In its place, the military gave Mrs Till a compensation payment of just $305 a week.
Sgt Till, 31, was a much-respected explosive ordnance disposal technician from the Incident Response Regiment, stationed at Holsworthy.
On March 19, he was with a group of soldiers conducting "route clearance" work in southern Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device was found.
As Sgt Till was disarming the bomb, it exploded, killing him instantly.
Mrs Till, who looks after Jacob, 10, and Taleah, 7, Sgt Till's children from a previous marriage, is employed as an school art teacher but will soon receive her final pay cheque as she goes on maternity leave. Last week, she broke down in tears as she told a Department of Veterans'
Affairs review panel of her plight at a public meeting in Sydney. She said most Australians would be outraged to learn how little financial support was afforded families of those killed fighting for the country.
In a week during which politicians and heads of government agencies were awarded a pay rise, Mrs Till revealed that she was receiving the same financial support as a single mother on welfare payments.
"What the DVA are offering the family of a man who died in the service of his country is the same as if I was on the dole as a single mum," she said. "It's disappointing.
"The public opinion is if a guy is killed overseas, his family will be looked after.
"Obviously, I've had to deal with Brett's death itself, but when he died we got the rest of that fortnight's pay, one extra fortnight's payment, then it stopped. It's been difficult.
"Fortunately, I've been at work still, but the difference between Brett's pay and the compensation is vast."
The part-time art teacher told the meeting she would receive one more pay packet herself, "then it's single-mum time".
She said the Department of Veterans' Affairs had also given her a choice of whether to receive a pension or a lump sum.
"It's like having to choose whether to house the family or feed them. The lump sum won't pay for a house, the pension won't pay the rent and bills."
The Federal Government is reviewing the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act after a series of complaints by former servicemen.
The Government's penny-pinching treatment of the families of dead or injured servicemen is in stark contrast to its $42 billion stimulus spending package, which has splashed money throughout the community.
This orgy of spending has included $950 handouts for millions of taxpayers, new halls for every school - even those with a single pupil - $1600 subsidies for insulation batts in every home, money for solar hot-water systems and thousands of grants for infrastructure.
Mrs Till's treatment also flies in the face of the solemn public promises and expressions of sympathy made by officials immediately after her husband's death.
Defence Force head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said Sgt Till was "highly skilled and very courageous".
"I can think of no more admirable action, nor one more worthy of our gratitude and respect, than that of this fine soldier today," he said at the time.
"To the family, I say that our thoughts and prayers - my thoughts and prayers - are with you. I'll ensure you're supported through your time of grief."
In a condolence speech to Parliament, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered the Till family "profound sympathy".
At Sgt Till's funeral, then defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon offered his condolences and support to "Brett's wife, children, family, friends and colleagues".
Mrs Till spoke of conversations with other serving members of her husband's regiment about their expectations of compensation should they be killed or injured on the front line. "The boys say before they go overseas they want to do their service, but also set up their families," she said.
"They're under the impression that if something happens to them, then their families will be supported.
"But when I've spoken to other guys in Brett's troop, there's a difference between what they think they're entitled to and what happens."
The decision by the Rudd Socialist Labor government to ensure this widow of an Australian Hero be condemned to a life of “subsistence poverty” as opposed to the life of taxpayer funded easy street for the people Rudd and his party invites here the same people who were cheering the loudest as Sergeant Brett Till, was blown into oblivion.
That’s why Australian soldiers, armed services, are not permitted to ware their uniforms off base in Australia, you see there are too many of the enemy and their Labor,leftist supporters and apologist living here, for it to be safe for them to do so.
The leader of the Lakemba Mosque demanded that the then Australian Prime Minister Labor’s Bob Hawke,in power during the first Gulf War, issue an order that Australian service personnel not be seen in public in their uniforms, as it was offensive to the Islamic community who were supporters of Saddam Hussein, so what did Hawke do? he dropped his pants bent over and said take me allah I’m yours, the order was issued immediately, there were and still are numerous reports of Australian military personnel been assaulted by the mindless Godless savages that are the population of Labors Islamic ghetto, known as Sydney’s south western suburbs, aka. Sydney’s occupied Territories or Labor’s imported voting block.
Australian service personnel must understand that just like the Vietnam war, the present Labor Socialist Government is on the side of those trying to kill you.Next time some bum from the ACTU or the Australian LABOR party arrives at an ANZAC Day service you might want to ask them do they realise that the service is for Australian service personnel, Australian’s and their ally’s,it’s not a service for the enemy and their supporters and apologists to gloat over the deaths of those that their team are responsible for.
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There is no shortage of Tax Dollars in Australia for AUSTRALIANS in need to be taken care of,the reason Australians are living in cars, back allies and our War Widows are reduced to poverty is because our Socialist government is too busy sucking the United Nations arse hole in order to get a pat on the head and a piss ant medal from some despot member of the Communist party further up the tree than Kevin 07 Rudd is.
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