Not to provide you with a free lunch at the expense of others? Bizarre.
What free lunch? As I said, I'm perfectly willing to pay free men the wages neccessary for them to defend the country consentually.
You want to force them to accept wages you offer. You want to play Russian roulette, damning those who happen to be born at the wrong time.
It is those who are older, who have come into success under the freedoms of this nation who OWE something, not a bunch of young kids barely out of high school who may never return from a war to enjoy those freedoms, a war whose existence is due to the failed diplomacy of the elder generations.
You are really on the wrong side of this one Roscoe, and its because you see military service as a type of state worship, and you want to punish those who may not feel they owe the state such a debt when their lives have just begun.
I see the way we treat our vets, they deserve better than that. Even now our servicemen are on food stamps. The soldiers we call to war deserve better, their wives and children deserve better.
Its American blood we spill, I expect to pay for it dearly, and am proud to.