military pay: my thoughts
(This article was initially written in 2005, and has been updated, as of early 2009, with current information pertaining to military pay, benefits, and allowances.)
Obviously, I am of the contention that the United States military is paid entirely too much. There is no need for emotion here, nor is there a need for cries of “treason” or accusations of anti-American sentiments. It is true that I don’t wave the flag, and I don’t have a yellow ribbon on my home or my car, and patriotic music makes me want to puke. Though the brainwashed majority says I should, I simply cannot feel gratitude for the military, past or present. As far as I am concerned, they did not matter in the past, they do not matter now, and they will certainly not matter in the future.
I do grudgingly, and with some degree of shame, acknowledge my American citizenship, and I am aware of the freedoms we enjoy. However, these are rights, and not privileges.
I do not credit the modern-day American military with “defending” any of our freedoms, even though the cry is that they’re “fighting for our country”, and so forth. Since The War of 1812, the U.S. military has done nothing but get involved in matters that concerned other countries, and not ours. Pearl Harbor, for example, is located in Hawaii, and that area wasn’t U.S. soil when the Japs attacked it.
Instead, I choose to credit the taxes we pay, and the lawmakers who work for us daily. We are promised these rights, and our military has absolutely nothing to do with them, regardless what the brainwashers try to say. What it comes down to is this: our military has turned into a joke. And this joke’s expensive. Financially speaking, it’s the Pacific Avenue hooker of our economy.
