[quote=Shadowfax]
You guys want to get mad at someone, let’s take a hard look at the military welfare state. (Commence firing, all you ex-miliary types out there. Yes, I appreciate your service but as of 1973 or so, no one made you serve, so don’t act like it’s an entitlement that the rest of the population owes you because you chose to get shot at.) [end rant][/quote]
Your argument for public workers non-salary compensation applies here. The military will make a man out of you (snark?), but that in itself won’t compel enough kids to join. There has to be a pot of gold at the end or the quota would not get filled. And the public can’t take benefits away from prison guards, C-level executives or teachers is not likely to succeed in taking away a significant chunk from veterans and MIC.
