trey3216 said:
Jinx 2 said:
quash said:
curtpenn said:
Doesn't matter when the alternative is any current Democrat. Why is this simple truth so hard for some to grasp? Don't have to like the guy or be on board with everything he does to understand that he's the only alternative to the lunacy of the Social Democrats.
How ****ed up are you willing to let the country get before you look for another option? $44 trillion? 88?
Quash, seriously, the ONLY time national debt is an issue for most Republicans is when a Democrat is president. THEN they start complaining about the deficit.
I didn't hear a bloody PEEP when Bush was borrowing from the Chinese and going to war on the credit cards and back-door drafting military personnel (very few of whom were college grads, so the crowd of mostly Baylor alums posting back then and their children would have been unaffected). Because he lowered taxes at the same time. So their tax bills went down.
That is literally ALL they care about. Kicking the can down the road to the next president / next generation = not their problem. It's an ant / grasshopper conundrum. Republicans claim to be ants, but they are fiscal grasshoppers.
I know about 2 dozen Baylor grads that willfully went to war. That's a disgusting misrepresentation. Shame on you
What happened is that we went to war without a draft. Reservists, including people I knew, and ex-military who thought they had separated permanently were suddenly called up for duty in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving their families and jobs for a year or more.
Most of those people were recalled again and again. But a lot of rank and file service people who were ready to leave the military had their service involuntarily extended and some were recalled.
Bottom line: If you aren't willnig to send your sons and daughters, don't send those of other Americans. And that's what Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld did.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4884/army-recall-0908/Imagine that you graduated from college, and a couple years afterward your alma mater contacts you and says, Sorry, you didn't graduate from college. In fact, you have five weeks to drop everything that you're doing quit your job, get out of your lease, put all your stuff in storage, cancel your Netflix, etc. and report back to campus so that you can redo all the schooling that you've already done. And not only that, here's a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver with only one round in the chamber spin the chamber, point it at your head, and pull the trigger. If you live, you live. If you don't, you don't.
The only shooting that I care to do from now on is with my camera, and I had just got done with the long and arduous process of getting my GI Bill activated and signed up for photography classes down at the city college when I received the large manila envelope in the mail with the words IMPORTANT DOCUMENT printed in all caps in the center of it.
Inside was a letter that said that I had five weeks to report to Fort Benning, Georgia "Home of the Infantry" for in-processing, and after that I'd be assigned to a National Guard Infantry unit. Purpose: Operation Iraqi Freedom. I love all-expenses-paid business trips, but I don't recall enlisting in the National Guard I enlisted in the regular Army. What I do recall is my recruiter telling me that I wouldn't be called back up to active duty unless "World War III broke out."
When I joined up six years ago, I was under the strong impression that I'd be able to do my time, get out, and move on. Which is what I did, or at least tried to do.
I had no idea that the Army was going to turn into this psychotic ex-girlfriend that you'd need to file a restraining order against because the crazy ***** doesn't get the hint that there's no way we're getting back together again ever!I separated from the Army three long years ago, and ever since then I've lived every single day in fear that this was going to happen. I've endured dozens and dozens of e-mails and phone calls from the Army trying to persuade me to voluntarily reenlist. Sometimes these phone calls get pretty nasty especially when I kindly request that my name and number be taken off their list. (There's a law that states you can do this.) This never works, but it always confuses them. One guy even told me he couldn't do that because this was the government calling, not a telemarketer. I called bull**** and hung up.
