If America is not vibrant, growing, and innovative, there is no money for benefits, or increased benefits for anyone, I don’t care who you are or why you think you deserve a government check.
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If America has no defenders willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, nothing else will matter. We will not even have a country. While odious, an encroaching government is a secondary consideration to the threat of an encroaching adversary who would rob us of our freedom and prosperity.
As a veteran perhaps my view is biased, but many vets and their families have paid an extremely high price to defend this nation. They deserve our gratitude.
I was at a veterans cemetary just today. It is a humbling experience.
“If America has no defenders willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, nothing else will matter. We will not even have a country.”
According to some on this thread, they are only doing it for the money and benefits anyway.
That’s not why I served.
Still, without a vibrant, prosperous private sector, there is no military. It’s not the other way around, and never has been in the history of this country.