Not sure about you, but I didn't serve with anyone who would be willing to forego their right to vote simply because they drew a paycheck for putting their ass on the line while wearing the nation's uniform.
During the whole fiasco in WI over public employee unions you are probably familiar with the fact that the PEUs started recall petitions against WI GOP lawmakers.
OK, such is their right.
However, reports have come that many good people wanted to start recall petitions against the democrat fleebaggers only to have the petitions torn from their hands and ripped up...
...as the police looked on and did nothing even though a felony was being committed in their presence.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/03/protesters-destroy-recall-petitions.htmlPolice also put their asses on the line but when it came down to it they violated everything they stood for against the very people from whom they draw their authority. The plain truth is you don't need a union for a strike/mutiny/sedition.
I knew as I was writing my original comment that I would touch off a firestorm and it is certainly not out of disrespect to the military. I'm looking at places like Greece where so many people make their living or have it subsidized by the government that any effort to bring sanity is stillborn because more people take than pay-in and those takers vote in the majority.
It is the same here is the US where government employees outnumber privately-employed manufacturing-section workers:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576219073867182108.htmlAdd to that the number of people getting government assistance.
Government dependence has always been the key to the liberal agenda because the libs know just as soon they get enough people onto the dole to have political majorities they will secure their power base forever. We cannot pretend they can't do because we are fighting against time to strangle ObamaCare before it goes into full implementation for that very reason.
The process we are fighting against isn't spending. That'd be like saying the GWoT is about fighting suicide vests. We are fighting spending because dems use that spending to hook people into voting to protect the dem-championed programs that spend money on the people.
If, after the WI debacle is done, you ask a conservative, "would you, in the name of liberty, be willing to do whatever it takes to sever the mechanisms by which public employees use their political power to demand more money and more power from taxpayers?" the answer would be a resounding. "YES?" Of course the liberals will instantly retort, "Well, what about your sacred cows?"
Just because our cows have guns doesn't mean we exempt them because the few armed liberal cows we saw wasted no time in committing acts of passive sedition and such conversations were very much in the minds of the founders.
Believe me when I say I'm really just halfheartedly spit-balling and none of it is born out of dislike or distrust of the military. But we are being confronted with some scary shit that is undermining every principle of the government provided to us; namely, consent of the governed. The purpose of the US military is not to fight wars it is supposed to be the last--and most powerful--resort to preserving the freedoms of the American people. Not landing fat contracts for select congressional districts or voting 4:1 for one party over another. If ANYTHING interferes with the preservation of liberty than it must removed (witness debates on coed barracks and women in combat). If anything could be used to corrupt an institution and turn it into a vehicle of tyranny all the more so.
So let's put everything on the table and debate it in turn, free of emotion and sentiment.
