Ya know, she really has if you play this all the way out to the end. Paris Hilton lives “La Vita Loca” (for you illegal aliens out there) and dines at the swankiest. Paris Hilton has never seen what it is like to work, nor has she ever sacrificed a damn thing - except maybe her few contacts that bailed when her SideKick was hijacked! (Doh!)

I mean really, what one earth can she be worth? (rhyme intended) I won’t even do the math, ’cause that is only money.

It is impossible to even fathom to what extent the Hilton Family is willing to stoop. Maybe Paris Hilton has been “schtupped”, but I think that the family is now schtupping those injured brave men and women at Walter Reed that have been able to experience a steak dinner and some time away to forget their pains and continuous fight with debilitating injuries. The US Military is sacrificing every day, whether it is the time spent on the field of battle, the spouses and families holding it all together all alone, or those brave enough to continue yet cannot because they are wounded the worst and must recuperate and rehabilitate at Walter Reed.

Can the Hilton Hotel Corporation (ticker symbol/link HLT = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=HLT) be this flippin’ stupid? Are they really as dumb as their namesake, Paris? Are they really that reluctant to support these brave men and women and continue the steak dinner ritual? I mean, it isn’t like this is a free ride because Fran O’Brien’s Stadium Steakhouse makes sure that they are all square. In fact, Wal-Mart (uh-huh, that evil giant corporation the lefties love to hate) and the VFW is kicking in $50k!

Yeah, I SAID FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!

That’s a ton of steaks, and I’m right there with them. I’ll continue to go to Wal-Mart, folks. I hope you do too. At least THEIR heart is in the right place. Sam Walton was no idiot. Neither are we, ya know?

Thanks to Lt. Smash of Indepundit, I landed on Chris Dickson’s blog where I was able to get a little background on the Wal-Mart and VFW pitching in to make this free to the wounded. Here, check out a few choice tidbits:

The Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Foundation awarded the VFW Foundation a $1 million matching grant last summer to support VFW programs that aid military members and their families. Fifty thousand dollars of that grant was earmarked to underwrite the cost of dinners for wounded troops at Fran O’Brien’s.

According to restaurant co-owner Hal Koster, Fran O’Brien’s has provided free dinners to wounded troops and their families since October 2003. Last year they served about 2,300 dinners at a cost of nearly $160,000, an expense that was initially absorbed internally but is now being largely offset by outside donations.

Do you think that Wal-Mart is evil? Well, maybe you might want to rethink your position? (you better you MORON!) Just look at the sacrifice that Wal-Mart is making for our brave men and women:

Wal-Mart has 3,200 employees serving on military leave. Besides continuing their employee benefits and helping with the salary differentials, Wal-Mart has provided millions of dollars in financial aid to military family-support organizations that help supply clothing for the wounded and special-need items for the troops. In addition, Wal-Mart’s customers nationwide have sent hundreds of thousands of messages of support to military men and women through in-store kiosks.

OK, maybe that doesn’t look like much to the casual observer. But, maybe we can do a little “simple math” and see just what they are sacrificing. Let’s take an average pay and net-it-out.

NON-MANGEMENT :: $32,250 PER YEAR + BENEFITS

• $15 per hour
• 8 hours a day
• 5 days a week
• 50 weeks a year (2 weeks vacation and sick days)
• 100 hours TIME AND A HALF OVERTIME per year

MID-MANAGEMENT :: $55,000 PER YEAR + BENEFITS

• $27.50 per hour
• 8 hours a day
• 5 days a week
• 50 weeks a year
• NO OVERTIME PAY

Let’s say that the breakdown for non-management to management is about 85-15 (85% are non-management, 15% are mid-management). That means that 2,720 employees or $87,720,000 total pay for non-management and 480 employees or $26,400,000 total pay for mid-management is being set aside. PEOPLE, that means that $114,120,000 per year is what Wal-Mart believes is an acceptable cost to support our brave men and women serving and sacrificing for all of us to be safe!

That’s really rough numbers, folks. They are willing to truly keep that job open for their valued employees. And, you really need to understand that statement I just made because Wal-Mart VALUES military service! Their employees are not in the store making things work. Their employees are in the battlefield making it possible for the rest of us to live and work safely.

Is there value there? Yep! Does Hilton Hotels see that value? I think not.

Who is the evil corporation now? Just stew on that a bit - chew until it hurts, Hilton, ’cause I will never grace your doorstep, ever. You have really burned that bridge - all Hilton Properties. I came from the travel industry after I separated from the United States Air Force. I keep up to date with all the changes, and I know how easy it is to make a dent. From that point alone, I am contacting all my travel agent friends.

How about you? Do you know someone in the travel industry? WELL, GET OUT THERE AND GET GOING!!! Make sure that those travel industry friends of yours know that Hilton is making a huge mistake. Here is the “Hilton Family” of hotels, so, make sure you do not stay here, either:

Conrad Hotels
Doubletree
Embassy Suites Hotels
Hampton Inn & Hampton Inns and Suites
Hilton HHonors
Hilton Hotels
Hilton Garden Inn
Hilton Grand Vacations Club
Homewood Suites by Hilton

All these properties are tabu! DO NOT STAY AT THE ABOVE LIST OF HOTELS, PEOPLE!!!

OH! and, it seems in every search, Delta Airlines came up as a great place to get deals on Hilton Hotels. The URL looks like this from a Google Search [http://www.delta.com/tracking/index.jsp?MR=http://www.hilton.com]. You might wanna think twice about Delta Airlines, too. You just never know how deep this can cut until you have looked carefully at the blade about ready to go deep into your gut.

Here’s the petition that Chris Dickson talks about here. I signed it. I expect that you will do the same.

H/T to Lt. Smash of Indepundit and Chris Dickson!

TAGS: Fix4RSO, Milblog, Military, Wounded, Boycott+Hilton, Kudzu, Scum

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