Bearish I understand what you are saying completely. Yours is a story of strength and perserverance and success. It is directly attributable to your personal makeup. Many people do not posess that.

CAR I understand what you are saying as well with respect to people who perform everyday tasks here at home to protect our public from healthcare workers to police to firemen to teachers.. The list goes on. Their contribution is not lost on me.

However, I think it is a simple math equation that doesn’t work at present. There is not enough revenue to pay all of the services right? Throw in pension funds and well… here we are, California in a mess… I don’t want to go down that road though.

Bearish I guess as I said I have seen both sides of the service blade. I know plenty of 20 year retirees who live on good pensions and now accel in the private sector. So yes they are eating up valuable funds. I have seen a couple people come back from deployments pretty messed up both physically and mentally. You have pointed out the myriad of resources for them to draw upon… I just think there are so many other public service jobs that pale in comparison. Post office jobs, IRS jobs, DMV jobs… the list goes on of the monsterous beauracracy that comsumes billions and billions of dollars. Yes the military complex is loaded with waste, graft, etc…

I don’t have a good answer, just an overwhelming respect and gratitude for those that serve and have served in any of the armed forces.