My America

[Gorgetrapper]

You guys can handle Hitler all you want then!

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by Gorgetrapper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You guys can handle Hitler all you want then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMeRVHq03o

[Hasbinbad]

Why is paying taxes not "serving ones country" ?

Bonus question:
Why is getting paid for services rendered called "serving" ?

edit: ok so upon rereading this, i see the silliness of the semantics in the bonus question.. but seriously people throw around the term "serving my country" as if its some great selfless act to get paid and get medical benefits and all kinds of other bennies for something that is voluntary, and I just think it's cute.

[mitic]

Originally Posted by Gorgetrapper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You guys can handle Hitler all you want then!

comparing a police state in the 1940ies with a federal republic in 2010...there is something wrong rite here.

[Alawen Everywhere]

Originally Posted by ShadowWulf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How, and why? Simple questions.

United States Marine Corps. My dad was in the navy and died from chemicals (agent orange) he was exposed to in Vietnam. His dad was in the navy in World War II and in Korea. I am a veteran son of a veteran son of a veteran. Both of them are now buried in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. (My grandpa died this spring.) I expect to join them in 50 or 60 years.

[Alawen Everywhere]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why is paying taxes not "serving ones country" ?

Bonus question:
Why is getting paid for services rendered called "serving" ?

edit: ok so upon rereading this, i see the silliness of the semantics in the bonus question.. but seriously people throw around the term "serving my country" as if its some great selfless act to get paid and get medical benefits and all kinds of other bennies for something that is voluntary, and I just think it's cute.

It's nice that you live in a country where you get to have opinions like that and vocalize them in public, isn't it? Here's a 2010 pay chart. Obama just made the GI bill not completely suck again recently, so that compensation is worthwhile again. VA hospitals are still awful.

Now tell me how much I'd have to pay you to put your life on the line.

Edit: Blaine just reminded me that we got taxed on our housing and all our benefits and those are valued way above market so we'd end up with a few hundred bucks a month. The only way you make much is if you're deployed to a war zone.

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Now tell me how much I'd have to pay you to put your life on the line.

When the US army comes up north here on some bogus terror alert to come and steal our water and kill my nephew, thats when ill put my life on the line, and nobody is gonna need to pay me nothing.

[Gorgetrapper]

Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's nice that you live in a country where you get to have opinions like that and vocalize them in public, isn't it? Here's a 2010 pay chart.
Now tell me how much I'd have to pay you to put your life on the line.

You can't pay any of these ungrateful pricks anything to put their life on the line.

[Gorgetrapper]

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When the US army comes up north here on some bogus terror alert to come and steal our water and kill my nephew, thats when ill put my life on the line, and nobody is gonna need to pay me nothing.

Instead of preventing an issue, you would rather wait until something happens and THEN scream patriotism.

"I don't care about anything else in the world, as long as it doesn't happen to me I don't care!"

"You killed my 'soandso' omg rage i'm going to kill you now"

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by Gorgetrapper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Instead of preventing an issue, you would rather wait until something happens and THEN scream patriotism.

"I don't care about anything else in the world, as long as it doesn't happen to me I don't care!"

"You killed my 'soandso' omg rage i'm going to kill you now"

Thats what ive been doing in this thread... prevention. Thats what ive been doing for most of my adult life. But deep down i think its a waste of effort, mainstreet america is hopelessly lost in Foxnewsland. The US is draining its water at a crazy rate and when theyll run out of it theyre just gonna come here and take it, like theyre doing now with the oil in the middle east. Its like a blackhole folding on itself and Canada is going to get swallowed alongside it.

This quote from George Orwell illustrates my feelings at this point in time:

Everything one writes now is overshadowed by this ghastly feeling that we are rushing towards a precipice and, though we shan't actually prevent ourselves or anyone else from going over, must put up some sort of fight.