tinygnat219:
Wow, if there's a more ignorant statement out there, I have yet to hear it. Tell that to the E-3-9s deployed overseas getting paid less than minimum wage getting shot at. I can assure you that if you spent 1 week in military service, you'd realize that our soldiers don't do it for the money.
Here's what the Enlisted troops actually make:
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/...enlbasepay.htm
An E-9 with 14 years of service is basically making 50K. Yeah. Big bucks there.
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I don't think they should continue to get paid after they leave the service. Military retirement pay should be abolished. Why should they continue to live off our tax money when they don't do anything to earn the money? Let them invest in retirement plans like other people
This statement is even more ignorant than your first.
Nah,
you don't know what
you're talking about.
Your statements are ignorant because you believe the propaganda. All those people get room, board, transportation, medical care, insurance, and free ammunition too. And they
also get paid. Most of the time they just sit or stand around doing nothing useful.
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't object to paying those guys for the time they actually spend in combat. If there's an hour firefight, pay them something for that hour of work: minimum wage is more than enough for that hour in addition to everything else they get. But it's ludicrous to pay them at other times.
That's why AirForceShooter is not ignorant. "I won't join the NRA," he said. "I will and do send money to the ILA for specfic activities." Absolutely right: why contribute to the maintenance and support of an organization except at the times they do the specific things
you want.
I don't want to maintain or support the military except when a specific unit does what I want at the time I want it.
It's the approach we should take towards
every other essential service too. I'll pay for the fire department when it puts out a fire in
my house, but I don't
want to pay for
anything else. What right do you have to expect
me to pay when it puts out a fire in
your house or when it's sitting around or doing something
I don't like. I've no interest in paying for police to drive around in their fancy cars, but I'll kick in a few bucks if they stop someone from murdering me, and I don't mind buying a drink for a cop if I feel in the mood.
And let's be real. The military isn't interested in winning wars. If it actually won a war its funding would stop. The military is like the NRA because they both want to keep losing so we have to keep sending them each more money. It's their business and they don't want to go out of business. The NRA wouldn't get money from us if there were no gun control and the military wouldn't get money either if there were no wars.
Fire departments don't
really want to prevent fires: no fires, no money, so they set fires to keep themselves fat and happy. If fire departments really wanted to stop fires there wouldn't be any fires by now. The cops run around generating crimes and encouraging criminals just to make sure they get paid. They could have stopped all crime by now if they really wanted to. Just like the NRA, fire departments
want fires and cops
want murderers so they can keep the cash coming in. As Dorryn our teacher in Buffalo, NY, said so wisely, "It's all about the money."
Worst of all are doctors. They've been around much longer than the NRA. The fact that people still get sick and die is proof that doctors aren't interested in preventing disease or curing people. If they did that they couldn't get rich, own lots of homes, and drive around in fancy cars while wearing Gucci shoes. Look: I don't mind paying a doctor
something once in a while if I'm ill and he cures me, but I want my money back if I get sick again.
Why can't
you understand plain common sense?
That's not ignorant. If it were ignorant everybody in this thread who is not an NRA member would be appallingly ignorant and far too embarrassed to admit it. But they're not embarrassed. They're proud of it.
