America has no private military by design within the Constitution that allowed no "quartering of troops, and no standing army." That means that the military is used when necessary to defend America, not to cultivate a military-industrial complex always in demand because of President's personal desires.
Standing armies ready for self protection cannot occur overnight but neither must they be allowed to dictate the pay and conditions under which they work. Voluntary armies were convened to solve that problem and keep the military from becoming its own tyrant, or at the behest of a Congressional or Presidential tyrant.
The military has suffered the same fate as the Congress, seduced and bloated by pay from a time when voluntary service was considered an honor, now reduced to bribery for performance - or worse, their own tyrants who hold captive the American people and their tax dollar while most of them pay little or nothing, and do insider trading on the side to become wealthy.
The hypocrisy of how we do what we think is good government is positively amazing.
America has no private military by design within the Constitution that allowed no "quartering of troops, and no standing army." That means that the military is used when necessary to defend America, not to cultivate a military-industrial complex always in demand because of President's personal desires.
Standing armies ready for self protection cannot occur overnight but neither must they be allowed to dictate the pay and conditions under which they work. Voluntary armies were convened to solve that problem and keep the military from becoming its own tyrant, or at the behest of a Congressional or Presidential tyrant.
The military has suffered the same fate as the Congress, seduced and bloated by pay from a time when voluntary service was considered an honor, now reduced to bribery for performance - or worse, their own tyrants who hold captive the American people and their tax dollar while most of them pay little or nothing, and do insider trading on the side to become wealthy.
The hypocrisy of how we do what we think is good government is positively amazing.