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  • swopjanswopjan Member Posts: 3,292
    edited November -1
    Something just occurred to me... WHY do we have bases in Europe? Do they not have enough soldiers? I get having some Americans there for training purposes, but 60 squadrons? Is that really necessary?
  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    Given all these "generous" benefits active duty service members receive, why is it less than 1% of the US population serves?

    Now, were gonna cut pay, manpower, retirement, healthcare, etc.. and somehow this will improve our ability to respond to an ever increasing shiitehole of a world?

    It seems ludicrous to me to cut into a force which is already, by ALL accounts, over-tasked and tired. Yet all we can talk about on the social welfare side of the federal government coin is increases in food stamps, length of unemployment benefits for many who never have and never will look for a job in earnest, and continued massive bailouts for everyone but the common man.

    I used to think the world was crazy and America was the last bastion of sensibility... now I am all but convinced the democrats have set us on a course which will all but ensure the end of America as we know it.

    Our enemies have been waiting for this moment, and I'm sure they are slapping their knees in laughter as they watch what we have done to ourselves as a Nation.

    I am embarrassed as an American for what we have become. [:(]

    NS
  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by swopjan
    Something just occurred to me... WHY do we have bases in Europe? Do they not have enough soldiers? I get having some Americans there for training purposes, but 60 squadrons? Is that really necessary?


    so the rest of NATO can spend their money on socialist programs that result in ragheads immigrating to European nations as "refugees" of some sort or another, becoming naturalized there (but not truly assimilated into German or French culture), and making it easier for them to come HERE with ill intents since they are EU citizens
  • swopjanswopjan Member Posts: 3,292
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by KSUmarksman
    quote:Originally posted by swopjan
    Something just occurred to me... WHY do we have bases in Europe? Do they not have enough soldiers? I get having some Americans there for training purposes, but 60 squadrons? Is that really necessary?


    so the rest of NATO can spend their money on socialist programs that result in ragheads immigrating to European nations as "refugees" of some sort or another, becoming naturalized there (but not truly assimilated into German or French culture), and making it easier for them to come HERE with ill intents since they are EU citizens


    Oh good, at least there's a reason [:)]
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the best and the brightest deserve a pay raise. This nation would not function without them.

    Or perhaps they live in another delusional world devoid of the obvious realities of life.
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    but the TSA and homeland security budget is increasing!

    common defense and all.
  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    but the TSA and homeland security budget is increasing!

    common defense and all.
    Not if Senator Rand Paul has anything to say about it!!! [;)]

    NS
  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Why do we even pay these volunteers? They should get nothing more than per diem while actually in D.C.
  • FEENIXFEENIX Member Posts: 10,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Night Stalker
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    but the TSA and homeland security budget is increasing!

    common defense and all.
    Not if Senator Rand Paul has anything to say about it!!! [;)]

    NS


    God help us!
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