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If you know someone that is going to sign up for the military, point out the worst that can happen to them is not that they are going to die, but they might liv
by ck2 13y ago
If you know someone that is going to sign up for the military, point out the worst that can happen to them is not that they are going to die, but they might live and need continuous medical assistance for the rest of their lives when they get back home.
Then show them the floor in the VA building that is collapsing from all the claims that have yet to be processed with some people waiting nearly a year to get help.
Congress should be forced to put aside $2 million for every recruit just like they force the post office to put money in a retirement fund for every employee, decades ahead before it is needed.
Then we'd see the true price of war. Of course this doesn't include the thousands of innocents killed in each native country.
- mathattack 13y agoIt does make sense to properly fund wars, though in worst case situations (WW2?) you need the ability to massively borrow. The irony of Iraq is there are eminent economists who thought it was worth it. http://www.nber.org/papers/w12092 http://www.nber.org/papers/w12092
- ck2 13y agoYeah they have weekly car bombs now killing all sorts of innocents, totally worth it.
- devx 13y agoBut they are not exceptional Americans, so who cares, right? If 1,000 "others" have to die, in order to save an American's life, then it's all worth it.
- mathattack 13y agoThat's why it's listed as irony. Even great minds have "Whoops" moments.