I agree. Yet how is a soldier able to not be at the mercy of the government? A sailor deployed in the Pacific was told by a judge that he will lose his daughter and/or be arrested for child abandonment if he doesn’t appear at a hearing in Michigan in 2 days. There is no way to get him there by then. He was given custody of his daughter after Child Protective Services took the child away from the mother for child abuse. He was on deployment so his current wife is taking care of the daughter, trying to hold everything together. And now he’s likely to be thrown in jail because the military can’t or won’t jump however high this hot-shot judge in Michigan says they have to jump. Why having his wife care for the daughter is any different than a parent putting a child in daycare all day, I don’t know. But how was this guy supposed to anticipate this mess when he signed up for the military?
I was listening to my Mom and Dad describing the Depression in their farming community. People literally survived off of the eggs and milk they could sell in exchange for other staples. And it was enough. Neighbors helped each other out. They knew who the drunks were and helped take care of the kids and missus, knowing they had no provider.
Right now property taxes alone would destroy every one of those families that pulled together then.
We’re in a huge mess. It’s taken a lot of years to get America this vulnerable. We all should have seen it coming yet here we are.
What’s the reset button?
That's an easy one. You don't enlist in the armed forces for a nation whose government sends you halfway around the world where the U.S. has no sovereignty. Some of the best military units in the history of this country were the ones who answered to a local militia leader instead of a Federal government in Washington. I'll include the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, Daniel Morgan's Virginia riflemen, the militia of Francis "the Swamp Fox" Morgan, and the Texas Rangers in that group. One of the defining characteristics of these groups is that most of them didn't give a damn who the colonial governor, the president, or the king was -- because they didn't answer to any of them.
This country was built by people who overthrew their own government when things got out of hand. Everything you've posted here is an inconsequential sob-story in comparison to that.