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In reply to the discussion: The Military ruined this country [View all]Separation
(1,975 posts)59. I'm sorry but I could fill a small gym
With people who I have assisted or lives saved. For the one poster who was in the Corps for 5 years and didn't help one person. I find that hard to believe, in my time in the Marine Corps I did humanitarian missions in Haiti, Puerto Rico, east and west Africa with thousands of tons of humanitarian goods delivered. I'm currently in the Coast Guard and have saved 26 lives with about as many assisted.
Only around %10 of the military is combat arms. The rest are POG's, support. That's a pretty broad brush your swiping there. How many 3rd world towns now have running water, or a bridge, etc. to say the military ruined this country...that's just closed mindedness.
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Most of the modern tech we have today came from military related research is indisputable
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#49
So still haven't absorbed all those examples of military tech we use every day? (nt)
jeff47
Nov 2012
#111
And why is it that if they are so good at innovation and invention they never managed
Generic Other
Nov 2012
#117
This was done to us on purpose. The PTB decided that the US working class was too uppity.
Romulox
Nov 2012
#2
All of a piece. Detroit was sacrificed to the East, for example, for military basing rights...
Romulox
Nov 2012
#5
How many of those in Congress and in the White House are, directly or indirectly, stockholders in
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#3
How come no one ever thanked a draft dodger for their sevice for their country?
bahrbearian
Nov 2012
#32
Actually, I know one Viet Nam vet who *has* thanked draft dodgers for the very reason you state.
ieoeja
Nov 2012
#80
It's not the military. It's the corporations run by the Daddy Warbucks that have ruined the country.
Texin
Nov 2012
#11
Contrarian view: Keynes once famously said it was preferable to have citizens dig holes
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#13
On that, I think most of us can agree. I wanted to be sure that people understand
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#23
If you're a draftee, I am 100% behind your getting all the benefits and medical care you need.
byeya
Nov 2012
#19
Includes the ultimate betrayal Botique Wars to justify MIC. Like the one Repubs want in Libya.
patrice
Nov 2012
#21
The military costs precisely as much or as little as our elected representatives allow.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2012
#27
Bingo. We elected the people who decide how much gets spent on the military.
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#30
And how do these politicians come to this conclusion? The military tells them.
Arctic Dave
Nov 2012
#41
The Commander in Chief of the military also happens to be a person that we elected
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#65
I don't think that will work, but we should consider offering a parallel Dept of Peace with all of
patrice
Nov 2012
#33
Cutting the military's money supply is the last taboo in politics. But the adults must do it.
ancianita
Nov 2012
#39
Who is the "we"? The private sector miltary contractors or the actual troops? I know that
ancianita
Nov 2012
#116
Yes but I want to make the point that there is nothing inherently wrong with the military
elleng
Nov 2012
#85
it would be virtually impossible for another country to invade and hold the u.s.
BlueMan Votes
Nov 2012
#94