You have a s/n saying you are a VN Vet,
You realize that your VA benefits are going to be slashed every year for the next 11 years minimum, but more likely every year for the next four decades, due to the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan?
You realize your son will NEVER receive the VA benefits currently listed in his USMC contract, due to the current costs of the DoD?
You realize that your savings have lost 10% of their purchasing power in the last 48 months, and your purchasing power has dropped by over 10% in the last 48 months SPECIFICALLY to cover the costs of the DoD and the interest payments on the last decade of DoD costs will now be carried by your son, his kids, and his grandkids? (Of course the QE is also covering other expenses, but the DoD is a huge part of the total pie)
Do NOT lecture people on FR about 9/11, I watched the second tower get hit and inside were several people I knew. The families of the victims do not want the children and grandchildren of the victims to become permanent subjugated serfs paying off debts for multiple generations, and neither do I, and neither should you and your son.
To balance the budget, the US Federal government has to decrease expenditures and increase revenues by 55% of the total budget and off budget items, every year going forward, for at least twenty years, just to get back to being merely broke. The DoD has to take its medicine along with every other aspect of the Federal cost structure. Or would you rather lose your SS, Medicare and increase your tax rates to 60% of gross without deductions? It’s a binary choice.