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Benefits for peace time service, for one.
Ah, indeed - that is a very significant change.
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Benefits for peace time service, for one.
No draft. Period.Compensation for Soldiers who served the country and gave up years of education or career progress is earned - not to be confused with welfare entitlements.
It's socialism.
Pure and unadulterated..Socialism.
yes it is. volunteers used to be called mercenaries. pay for war.
bring back the draft with a national service system.
No draft. Period.It's socialism.
Pure and unadulterated..Socialism.
yes it is. volunteers used to be called mercenaries. pay for war.
bring back the draft with a national service system.
In case you haven't noticed, the armed forces have advanced technologically since we had a draft. You expect conscripts to be about to do as well as volunteers?No draft. Period.yes it is. volunteers used to be called mercenaries. pay for war.
bring back the draft with a national service system.
The USA did wonderful with the draft. A great equalizer.
Does anyone seriously think we would have stayed in Iraq and Afghanistan as long as we have if a draft had been in effect?
bring back the draft under a national service program.
more socialism now!
Compensation for Soldiers who served the country and gave up years of education or career progress...
do you know who many of these soldiers are? most are better off for having joined. in the real world many would most likely have done worse without the free education and opportunity they get for serving.
until recently (911) many who served had a great deal. no action, no long wars, lots of boredom...
I say bring back the draft so we stop having this hiding behind a warrior class bullcrap.
veteran's benefits should be on the table. not all who serve for varying amounts of time deserve the same benefits. we all know lots of vets who abuse the system.
war time service deserves to be treated differently. we acknowledge this by paying more for hazardous duty.
Compensation for Soldiers who served the country and gave up years of education or career progress...
do you know who many of these soldiers are? most are better off for having joined. in the real world many would most likely have done worse without the free education and opportunity they get for serving.
until recently (911) many who served had a great deal. no action, no long wars, lots of boredom...
I say bring back the draft so we stop having this hiding behind a warrior class bullcrap.
veteran's benefits should be on the table. not all who serve for varying amounts of time deserve the same benefits. we all know lots of vets who abuse the system.
war time service deserves to be treated differently. we acknowledge this by paying more for hazardous duty.
Ok, now you're just ignorant. How much of a difference does that extra $200 per month actually make?
In case you haven't noticed, the armed forces have advanced technologically since we had a draft. You expect conscripts to be about to do as well as volunteers?No draft. Period.
The USA did wonderful with the draft. A great equalizer.
Does anyone seriously think we would have stayed in Iraq and Afghanistan as long as we have if a draft had been in effect?
bring back the draft under a national service program.
more socialism now!
I don't. I'd much rather serve alongside someone who wants to be there and is motivated to excel than someone who has to be there.
Wrong, yet again.Compensation for Soldiers who served the country and gave up years of education or career progress is earned - not to be confused with welfare entitlements.
The GI bill went far, far beyond providing compensation. It created a wide range of social welfare programs for returning GI's. It was the largest example of social engineering this nation has ever created, and it was not done simply to "benefit" soldiers in exchange for their efforts.
Technological advances explain those much better than merely being a product of progressive authoritarian central control.The U.S. has been heavily impacted by Progressive Policies for over a century.
and what a terrible century it's been! The creation of the middle class, a quintupling of real incomes, an end to child labor, the advent of workforce safety standards, a dramatic rise in productivity with an equal decline in per-unit pollutants, the greatest revolution food production since the advent of agriculture allowing 2% of the population to produce enough food to feed the other 98%, an extension in life expectancy, the invention of a wide range of medicines that improved both the quality of life and it's length...
Other than that, what good has possibly come?
Wrong, yet again.Compensation for Soldiers who served the country and gave up years of education or career progress is earned - not to be confused with welfare entitlements.
The GI bill went far, far beyond providing compensation. It created a wide range of social welfare programs for returning GI's. It was the largest example of social engineering this nation has ever created, and it was not done simply to "benefit" soldiers in exchange for their efforts.
The GIs had choice as to whether they'd further their education or not...Do-gooder social engineers prefer to force everyone into the technocratic mold.
Technological advances explain those much better than merely being a product of progressive authoritarian central control.The U.S. has been heavily impacted by Progressive Policies for over a century.
and what a terrible century it's been! The creation of the middle class, a quintupling of real incomes, an end to child labor, the advent of workforce safety standards, a dramatic rise in productivity with an equal decline in per-unit pollutants, the greatest revolution food production since the advent of agriculture allowing 2% of the population to produce enough food to feed the other 98%, an extension in life expectancy, the invention of a wide range of medicines that improved both the quality of life and it's length...
Other than that, what good has possibly come?
There's a big difference: soldiers perform a valuable service to the country; welfare recipients don't.
And I note that Nonsensical Number has no idea how innovation happens in the real world.
Oddball Dude is Tom turkey?Wrong, yet again.The GI bill went far, far beyond providing compensation. It created a wide range of social welfare programs for returning GI's. It was the largest example of social engineering this nation has ever created, and it was not done simply to "benefit" soldiers in exchange for their efforts.
The GIs had choice as to whether they'd further their education or not...Do-gooder social engineers prefer to force everyone into the technocratic mold.
Of course! and welfare recipients have a choice as to whether to participate in TANF.
Your streak continues, Tom!
Of all the things about our current government which would bother the Founders, there are many that are much worse than benefits for veterans who served on the field of battle.
Your outrage is grossly misplaced.
As to Vietnam Vets who are addicts, perhaps we should look at how such vets were treated in the first place...and how that war was mismanaged by our fearful leaders.
Berwick is much more concerned with rationing supply than ensuring a climate which encourages individual care.
One of the three pieces of the IHI's Triple Aim is patient-centered care. Is that somehow unclear?
That's not what Krugman said and he has a Noble Prize so you would assume he knows what he's talking about, right?
Technology made child labor and slave labor too expensive. Moreover, pollution = waste, which affects bottom lines...Of course, you conveniently overlook the greatest industrial polluter in America: the US federal gubmint.Technological advances explain those much better than merely being a product of progressive authoritarian central control.and what a terrible century it's been! The creation of the middle class, a quintupling of real incomes, an end to child labor, the advent of workforce safety standards, a dramatic rise in productivity with an equal decline in per-unit pollutants, the greatest revolution food production since the advent of agriculture allowing 2% of the population to produce enough food to feed the other 98%, an extension in life expectancy, the invention of a wide range of medicines that improved both the quality of life and it's length...
Other than that, what good has possibly come?
Technology led to the end of child labor? Technology forced companies to control pollution levels? Methinks you have the cause and effect backwards there, Tom.
And of course, you forget that as it pertains to medicine, much of the advancements in the past century were based on research from (gasp!) subsidized educational institutions, the NIH and (double gasp!!) government-issued grants.