No offense meant, I'm sure she is a wonderful person like so many Russian people. The regime that's corrupt presently
"These veterans deserve healthcare, free post secondary education, any civilian job training they can qualify for, low interest loans, and the respect of every single American." Nonsense crybaby US vet bollocks. Some do, most don't. You got paid, not a scratch on you, well done, fated lucky or changing tyres in the depot and you complain about the compensation, asking for a free lunch for life. Boo hoo little bitch. I have been in war also. Over the years I have encountered a lot of ordinary privates (vets) and I respect many however I noticed a certain persecution syndrome among many others. I have met so many, from cooks who cried like women about bullying and men who were maimed and made a great life. Fair and reasonable help for those who ACTUALLY deserve it, but pathetic sacks who cry for a vet card they can use for life? Tell that to bone spurs. On the other hand I've had a lot of talks with UK vets and they are not bitches. Here is another view of US Vets. "Best Defense Blog comment of the day: ‘Tom Kennedy’ says he is sick of hiring lazy, whining vets By Thomas E. Ricks | November 4, 2011, 10:42 AM oregon.gov This is a well-written, thoughtful blog post that made me think — as did the entire discussion. Thanks to all who participated, not just Mr. Kennedy. It also meets my metric of being better than most of my own posts: "I left the Regular Army as a captain and went to work for a global corporation. I have several colleagues at work who also left the Regular Army as captains and now have good jobs (more on the officer side later). That is why it pains me to write this below: I have had very limited success with hiring vets. The positions I need to fill are entry level and require a high school diploma only. Starting out several years ago, I thought that these jobs would be perfect for the typical 21 to 24-year-old first- or second- term enlistee who decided to get out and start laying roots. So I hired a few people like that. Without getting into the details, my experience has been that the vets I hire expect too much from the employer while also expecting high praise for no accomplishments. We offered full medical and dental coverage, 401K, three weeks paid time off to start, and a 40 hour work week. Nearly all the vets I hired failed to learn how to manage their benefits. They didn’t understand why they had a $20 co-pay at the doctor. They didn’t participate in the matching 401K because they didn’t want to see the deduction on their pay stub. They didn’t understand why they couldn’t all take two week’s vacation at the same time (Christmas). Et cetera. Worse, the typical vet was not ready to work. We track productivity by employee and I consistently found the vets near the bottom. After speaking and working with these guys, it’s apparent that their attitude and work ethic is lacking. Many of them had a standoff-ish attitude among their coworkers because they’d deployed and so-and-so stayed home. Generally, their work habits were focused on avoiding tasks and generally hanging back to allow others to accomplish their work for them. They very much prefer to find a small task and extend it as long as possible in order to give the appearance of productivity. I haven’t given up, but the last three years have been a big wake-up for me as a civilian employer who also has military experience. On the officer side: Just because CPT so-and-so got out after commanding a company and got an MBA does not mean he will step into an executive position. Officers might have to take a pay cut from their O-3 grade to get into a new career. And, you will never step into a position over 120 employees like you had as a commander. The biggest fear of a civilian employer (at least, me) is that you will get hired, and then drone on in your office without learning anything about your new career and without managing your own advancement. You can not just wait out your civilian position, take a professional development course, and then get an automatic promotion. So, here are some ideas for the guys getting out: – Use the headhunter recruiting companies to get connected if you don’t already have an ‘in’ somewhere. Simple, but they stay in business because they work. – Don’t copy your OER duty description or award bullets into your resume. It’s lazy and we can tell. – Emphasize your accomplishments over your technical duty description. If you were rated as a ‘top 3 platoon leader in the battalion,’ put that in your resume instead of your property book value. Signing for $1 million in equipment is not an accomplishment. – Don’t talk down to civilians who don’t have military experience. Sounds simple but I hear it a lot. Also, you might not even know who you’re talking to. (I’ve had an AF vet try to tell me that his four month deployment was harder than the Army’s twelve month deployment because he ‘couldn’t get settled.’) – Have a good reason why you are leaving you military career. It can’t be because it’s too much work or you can’t get promoted. We know how easy it is to get promoted and we don’t want to hire a drone." " I notice you noted how you volunteered before draft which I guess signifies to you still how you are better than others. This is con thinking through and through, you always see yourself with one eye in the vanity mirror. Unless there is someone to be superior to, you are not really happy as you want your ego stroked. Again, you decry "socialism" but you want a special deal for you because you say you deserve help but you out-of-hand dismiss others as moochers. In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "argument to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so." Too many sad sacks like you have helped support the military industrial complex parasite living fat today.
All I'm saying is people who have actually served in a combat zone have earned the benefits that socialism wants to give away for free to everyone. It's no more complicated than that. None of this answers my original question of how does t all get paid for if every single person is eligible. Cut defense? Okay, I agree there's plenty of fluff there. Raise the taxes on the wealthiest among us. Okay, I can see that to a point. Make corporate America pony up and close the loopholes? I'm with ya'. Add it all up and it still doesn't dent the cost of free everything for everyone. At some point we must break out those who have earned these benefits, those that are willing to put in some work for them, against the freeloaders who are able but unwilling to work, and there's a hell of a lot more of them than the left is willing to admit. Some kid, just made it through high school and now working the midnight shift in some warehouse for 10 bucks an hour who wants to go get some technical training at the local community college...I'm all for that kid getting some big financial assistance to do that. Conversely, some kid that wants to get a degree in African Art Studies from the University of Chicago, and expects to get a free ride to get high every night and attend community organizing protests can go sit and spin. Simple as that.
What is so special about 'combat zone'? Because you were in one voluntarily? Forget it, you are a fucking disgrace. You are looking for a handout for for yourself for really goddam nothing and you decry others as cover for your own greedy bitch soul. Grow up before you die.
What I really wanted to know why I started this thread ..what are the fundamental differences that divide us. For example, why do 90% of evangelicals support Trump? What do they want that's so important to them they are willing to give support to such a man with his history??
You claim to have been in a combat zone, and then ask what's so special about a combat zone. That just doesn't jive. Again, thanks for making my point about the left and their pretend support for the troops. And then people ask, why don't I support leftists. The left doesn't respect the military, pay nothing but lip service to the working man, and hates white people. I'm former military, former blue collar worker, and white. Why in the fuck would I vote democratic?
1. My cousin's wife who is seriously Evangelical explained it as God has chosen to save America through an imperfect vessel.. Trump. Obviously. 2. Laying down with a diseased dog like Trump is not difficult if you are already riddled yourself. US Evangelicals are jaw dropping complicit in corruption at this stage. Prosperity gospel, Jerry Falwell etc. Remember slave owning was not only allowed by these churches but actually a good thing. It was reflective of God’s design, a righteous order in society to be preserved on 'HIS' orders. They are morons (sometimes nice, but still morons) or corrupt as anything.