Support out troops?- **** no

[Tucker]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023532282

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 03:55 PM

douglas9 (1,003 posts)

No, thanks: Stop saying “support the troops”
My 16-month-old son was having a bad day. When he doesn’t sleep in the car, he usually points and babbles his approval of all the wonderful things babies notice that completely escape adult attention. On this afternoon, though, he was teething and hungry, a lethal scenario for an energetic youngster strapped into a high-tech seating apparatus (approved and installed, of course, by the state).

When it became clear he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, sleep it out, my wife and I stopped at a nondescript exit, the kind one finds every six miles in the South, with two gas stations and three abandoned buildings (if you’re lucky, you also get a Hampton Inn and Cracker Barrel). While she tended to the baby, I entered a convenience store — one of those squat, glass and plastic rectangles that looks like a Sears & Roebuck erector set — praying it would have something other than beer, cigarettes and beef jerky.

I settled on two Kraft mozzarella sticks, resisting the urge to purchase for myself a shiny red can of Four Loko.

“That’ll be $1.82,” the lady at the counter cheerily informed me. After I handed her two ones, she asked, “Would you like to donate your change to the troops?” I noticed a jar with “support our troops” taped to it in handwritten ink.

“No, thank you,” I answered firmly.

“Well … OK, then, sir,” she responded in subtle reproach, her smile not quite so ascendant anymore. “You have a good day now.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/25/no_thanks_i_wont_support_the_troops/

Response to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 04:00 PM

skippy66 (11 posts)
1. Don't we support the troops through our taxes?

I would be very suspicious of any private donations that our targeted at the troops other than a specific hospital request for orthopedic rehabilitation programs.

"Are there no prisons?"  "And the Union workhouses." "Are they still in operation?"

Response to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 04:49 PM

Star Member oldhippie (1,825 posts)
3. I suspect ....

... the change isn't going to any troops. It's going into the clerk's pocket.

I might be wrong, though.

I have a feeling that you're projecting his actions on what you would do.

Response to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 04:52 PM

KG (23,738 posts)
4. no, I don't 'support the troops'

Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2013, 05:05 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
nothing they're doing is protecting my 'freedoms' or keeping me safe.

They're the only thing standing between your freedom and obama declaring himself "barrack obama. President for life.

Response to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 05:00 PM

madville (1,464 posts)
7. They make plenty of money

Military pay and benefits have increased dramatically in the last decade. I would rather donate to the homeless or people with expensive medical needs.

Response to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 05:36 PM

Star Member LittleBlue (3,606 posts)
10. I do not support them

Militaristic patriotism should be rejected.

I'll support the millions of victims of our military aggression. The troops I'm paying for with wasted tax dollars.

[Freeper]

This seemed to have mysteriously stopped in Jan of 2009, now it has suddenly made a come back. I guess they forgot the troops are now under the control of a Nobel Piece prize winner.

[NHSparky]

resisting the urge to purchase for myself a shiny red can of Four Loko.

Driving around with a kid in the car drinking a can of caffeinated alcohol.  Once again, DUmmies showing that when it comes to using their brains, they can't use what they either don't have, or fried long ago.

[USA4ME]

The author of the Salon trash.

Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Some mindless egghead. Not surprising.

.

[FiddyBeowulf]

 A 2000+ word article just because someone asked him to donate 3 pennies, a nickle and a dime. 

I heard he is cranking out a manifesto on the environment because the bagger at the grocery store asked him if he wanted paper or plastic.

[Wineslob]

I went to WalGreens on Saturday. The chashier asked if, for .99, I would like to send the troops a candy bar. I said yes.



There, no long winded BS required.

[JohnnyReb]

I went to WalGreens on Saturday. The chashier asked if, for .99, I would like to send the troops a candy bar. I said yes.



There, no long winded BS required.

MY, my, the DUmmies should go for that....rotten teeth, diabetes, obesity.....what other harm will candy bars do?.....does Bloomberg know about this?

[marv]

It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.

....Charles M. Province

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

As I said in another thread: the only vets they support are the deviants.

[DLR Pyro]

Response to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 04:00 PM

skippy66 (11 posts)
1. Don't we support the troops through our taxes?

We also support all the DUmmy life forms on the hundreds of public assistance programs through our taxes which is why everytime I am at a stoplight and see some pan handler on the corner asking for a handout I firmly answer, "no thank you".

[seahorse513]

and some people are just plain assholes!!

[Tucker]

As I said in another thread: the only vets they support are the deviants.

Born Bradley Manning. Will die Bradley Manning. Johnson or not.

[Wineslob]

and some people DUmmies are just plain assholes!!

FIFY

[marv]

Vietnam wasn't very popular amongst the DUmmies, but they still jumped on the phony "hero" band wagon when it came around. Some day, soon, they'll make themselves out as phony Iraq/Afghanistan "heroes", too!

Dummies will always be phonies after the last war when it's convenient...........

[Ptarmigan]

I don't support DUmmies.

[Freeper]

I don't support DUmmies.

Sure you do, you pay taxes so you do support them.

[diesel driver]

Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Doesn't surprise me a bit.

The more I read from the morons that teach at VT, the more thankful I am that I never attended college there, and that I'm a WVU fan!

[Ptarmigan]

Sure you do, you pay taxes so you do support them.

Yeah, we have to support these parasites.