“In your last two posts to me, you violated the first two. Why don’t you throw in some racism and make it a Trifecta?”
LOL.....piece of work SkyPilot.
Standards for ME but not for THEE.
The revolving door of defense contracting is an ethical travesty from which the DoD cannot easily recover it’s credibility.
You sheepishly avoid the subject in favor of complaining that I called you a “doofus” and that I used a curse-word to describe my personal tax burden.
So where were we, you poor, poor victim of an “ungrateful nation” that provides you a lifetime pension and medical care along with a cushy defense contractor job (wink-wink)?
Ah yes, we were discussing that there may be room for a 10% cut in the defense budget, and you argued against it.
I engaged in my own "mind reading" of your motives, which I shouldn't have done. My apologies for that.
You can question my motives sir, my patriotism, or whatever else you wish. I have a great and abiding esteem for this nation's military and those who have served it. In my humble opinion, the military get used and abused by our civilian masters, and this latest outrage is par for the course.
My interest in serving was never "financial" as you stated (that was your own "mind reading" of motives). I joined, and stayed, because of patriotism. You can choose to believe that or not. I really don't care.
Military spending is not what is bankrupting this nation. Does all spending need to decrease? Yes. Has the military already paid it's "fair share?" It sure has enough pounds of flesh taken from it lately, with no decrease in mission, and no other entitlement or government programs have coughed up to the same degree. Moreover, sequestration takes 50% of the cuts from 17% of the budget, and hte military is constitutional. Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF, Section 8, Social Security, and SSDI are not. They pay nothing towards this latest cut.