Re: Where Are My Limbs? ask the USA Marine
pedro martori
Cuban Americans have acquired an enormous amount of wealth and prosperity in an extremely short period of time; no other immigrant group has achieved this as quickly as the Cubans. Many immigrants have never achieved it at all, despite being in this country far longer than Cubans.
Second-generation Cuban-Americans were more educated than even Anglo-Americans. More than 26.1 % of second-generation Cuban-Americans had a bachelor's degree or better versus 20.6% of Anglos. Thus Cuban-Americans in 1997 were approximately 25% more likely to have a college degree than Anglos. Other Hispanic groups lag far behind. Only 18.1% of South Americans had a bachelor's or better. Puerto Ricans, despite being U.S. citizens by birth, recorded a disappointing 11%; Mexicans only 7%. In 1997, 55.1% of second-generation Cuban-Americans had an income greater than $30,000 versus 44.1% of Anglo- Americans.
Thus Cuban-Americans are approximately 20% more likely to earn more than $30,000 than their Anglo-American counterparts. All other Hispanic groups lag far behind in average income.
In 1997, 36.9% of second-generation Cuban-Americans had an income greater than $50,000 versus 18.1% of Anglo- Americans. Cuban-Americans were twice as likely to earn more than $50,000. Also, approximately 11% of Cuban-Americans had incomes greater than $100,000 versus 9% of Anglo-Americans, and less than 2% of other Hispanics.
Cubans comprise less than 4% of the U.S. Hispanic population, Mexicans 65%, Puerto Ricans 10%, Central and South Americans 11%, and "others" 10%.
Yet of the top 100 richest Hispanics in the U.S., more than 50% are of Cuban descent (ten times what it should be on a population basis), and 38% of Mexican descent. The rest is scattered among all other Hispanic groups.
Gerry H
Cuban-American and proud
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Clinton's office said late Friday that
Army officials were now looking at cases
of 19 other injured veterans who may have
had payroll snafus similar to Loria.
"This man has already made such a sacrifice,
and then they just put him through the wringer,"
said Schumer.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--soldierspay1210dec10,0,4310634.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Lawmakers help wounded soldier get home after dispute with Army
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer
December 10, 2004, 4:23 PM EST
WASHINGTON --
Specialist Robert Loria of
Middletown lost his arm in Iraq,
but instead of a farewell paycheck
from the U.S. Army he got a bill
for nearly $1,800.
On Friday a platoon of
New York lawmakers came
to his rescue.
Loria found himself stuck in Fort
Hood Texas this week when Army officials
claimed he owed them money for travel
expenses to a hospital and lost equipment.
Several lawmakers _
Rep. Maurice Hinchey and
Senators Charles Schumer
and Hillary Rodham Clinton _
interceded on behalf of the
27-year-old veteran after his irate wife,
Christine Loria, told the Times-Herald
Record of Middletown about the problem.
Loria was wounded in February.
But as he was about to leave the Army this month,
officials told him he had been overpaid for his
time as a patient at a military hospital in
the Washington area,
and claimed he still owed money for
travel between the hospital and Fort Hood,
and $310 for items not found in his returned equipment.
Instead of a check for nearly $4,500,
Loria was told he had to pay nearly $1,800.
"Christmas is coming up,
and we are severely overdrawn
because of this,"
Christine said angrily.
"It turned out his getting wounded
wasn't the worst thing this year to happen _
this was," she said.
Clinton, Schumer,
and Hinchey said Friday the Army has
dropped the billing demands and will
allow Loria to return home today or
tomorrow on leave before he is discharged.
Clinton's office said late Friday that
Army officials were now looking at cases
of 19 other injured veterans who may have
had payroll snafus similar to Loria.
"This man has already made such a sacrifice,
and then they just put him through the wringer,"
said Schumer.
Clinton blamed the problem on someone in the
bureaucracy being unwilling to help him with
the paperwork that the Army insisted upon.
Hinchey charged the demands of the Iraq
war have overstretched the military,
which "sent people out to make sacrifices
and then provided them with what essentially
is personal abuse when they return home _
abuse and dishonor."
The Democratic lawmakers said Loria
should be able to start heading home
to New York in a day or two,
but his wife said she wants to make
absolutely sure those bills won't be
reinstated at some point.
"I just want him out of there.
I'm relieved that I know he's coming home
ut I know how powerful the military is and
I'm just so very, very nervous until he is
actually home," she said.