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To: Howie66
We call it 'volunteers,' but we're basically paying people to serve their country

Does this dunce think that we shouldn't be paid for serving? We have bills, too.

6 posted on 08/31/2005 10:58:03 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Most of us live... ...two weeks from cannibalism." -- words of wisdom from DU)
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To: SIDENET
We call it 'volunteers,' but we're basically paying people to serve their country

Does this dunce think that we shouldn't be paid for serving? We have bills, too.

Well, I think we should call her job what it is - paid propogandist.

11 posted on 08/31/2005 11:01:17 AM PDT by Bob
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To: SIDENET

Clift's an idiot. In decades past, even draftees were paid for serving.


12 posted on 08/31/2005 11:01:37 AM PDT by repentant_pundit (For the Sons and Daughters of Every Planet on the Earth)
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To: SIDENET

"Does this dunce think that we shouldn't be paid for serving? We have bills, too."

I might be wrong, but I will bet my bottom dollar that Ms. Clift makes a hell of alot more money annually than your average everyday Colonel, not to mention your regular E-5 (any branch will do). On top of this, the most danger that she faces is getting a paper cut on her pinkie, if that.


20 posted on 08/31/2005 11:06:21 AM PDT by Howie66 ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
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To: SIDENET

This seh-ideiot has no knowledge of the history of the US military. Except for the emergencies of WWI and WWII, our military has always been composed of volunteers. The term mercenary, by the way, usually applied to armies for hire. She doesn't know that she is implying that a troops might sell out to a higher bidder. Fact is that, by and large, every one who has served in the military has come out a better person than he went in. Just compare them with their classmates, a significanr percentage of whom are in jail.


48 posted on 08/31/2005 1:12:15 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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