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It's not a reasonable question.
To repeat myself for the Nth time in this thread, you get what you pay for.
Only people not accustomed to reason would believe that asking why a person would do something they can't afford is unreasonable.
If they're married before they enlist, they're irrational if they don't examine the pay scale against their (known) living expenses and the emotional stresses service life will impose on them.
If they're thinking of getting married after the serviceman enlists, they're irrational to do so prior to examining their (known) income and their expected costs of living.
So, in either situation, if the analysis indicates a gross budget shortfall of income vs living costs, what reasons forced them to persist in their actions, and under what circumstances should the taxpayer be expected to bear the cost of their poor decision making ability?
Okay, I'll take a shot at this, but I can't guarantee you'll understand it.
We are talking about people who have volunteered to serve our nation. While politicians often use that service to further selfish, imperialistic ends, the fact is that our servicemen and servicewomen signed up to defend our nation and our allies against our enemies.
There certainly are many benefits to military service which include valuable experience, education assistance, and so on. Ultimately, however, everyone who enlists faces the very real possibility of being asked to risk their lives at the behest of their commanding officers.
When we're asking someone to be ready to make that kind of sacrifice, it is incumbent upon us to support them in many respects.
We must give them the training they need to survive and to defend their compatriots in arms.
We must give them opportunities to better themselves, both so that they may serve us better and so they may be better prepared to make a life for themselves once they have left our service.
We must allow them the opportunity to advance as a result of hard work and dedication.
We must look after them and care for them if they are wounded or traumatized in our service.
We must not leave them to the untender mercies of the enemy if they are captured.
We must not leave their bodies behind to be desecrated if they are killed.
We must permit them the opportunity to raise a family while in our service.
Aside from our obligation to those who enter our service, the simple fact of the matter is that the training our soldiers receive instills a solid core of values that are valuable to pass on to the next generation. In general, people who enter the service of others for a noble cause, whether that service is military or otherwise, take away from that service lessons which must be passed on if at all possible. Military service is no exception.
That you do not understand these imperatives saddens me.
I've never made the claim that federal employees, as a whole, are underpaid. I can think of a couple of dozen that I've worked with personally who are massively overpaid.
I'm a veryy worried about this stuation when when people with only GEDs can pull over at random. There needs to be something for these people to further their understanding beyond having authority and or a paycheck.
I would like to see an education system for these people.
You truly believe that they receive zero training beyond a high school diploma? :roll:I'm a veryy worried about this stuation when when people with only GEDs can pull over at random. There needs to be something for these people to further their understanding beyond having authority and or a paycheck.
I would like to see an education system for these people.
We've all been through the airports, we've seen who the TSA agents are. These aren't people who went to college and studied hard to learn the law and court systems so that they can become police officers or FBI agents. I'm not really surprised that they're drug taking thugs. And these are the people responsible for our "safety".
To be brutally honest, the socialist concept of Total Kontrol has failed, yet once again.
You blamed the poor quality of TSA employees on the conservatives' supposed unwillingness to pay TSA workers enough. I just don't see that as being the problem.
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