Everytime an election is coming up, candidates start debating their positions on welfare and other topics. Its become obvious to me that certain issues in our country will never be resolved i.e. welfare. If there is a strategic move made to improve the system, it would effect our position in this world completely. Our military depends on those who have no alternatives BUT to join the military. This would include individuals with inadaquate education and low income backgrounds with the need to provide for their families. We get much of our U.S. Army from this group offering signing bonuses, education, living quarters, meals and clothing, and a good paycheck. When you have four hungry mouths to feed, this can look incredibly attractive! So, whats the incentive to change this? We need a military and we need to maintain super-power status, if the government provides opportunity to the less fortunate, our position, as The United States, could be compromised. So what's the alternative?
2006-06-07 03:42:31 · 6 answers · asked by carolinagrl 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yeah "Turbo"! Conclude that! My father in Vietnam, Special Forces, and my Grandfather was a Major in the Airforce. WW11 and Korea. My brother served for four years in the army as a helicopter pilot from 1997-2001. Anything else you'd like to add??!
2006-06-07 04:12:37 · update #1
Your assessment is well reasoned, but I don't agree with your assumption that most people join the military because they have no other choice.
Many people join for the experience, because it's a good first job, and to pay for college. These are not necessarily the same people who would otherwise be on welfare.
A lot of welfare recipients would not qualify to be in the military. The military has physical and educational standards.
Also, a lot of welfare recipients are content to just "get by", while a young man or woman who joins the military has aspirations to improve themselves through education and experience.
Regarding welfare reform, back in the late 1990s, the Newt Gingrich led Congress pressured Bill Clinton into signing a huge welfare reform bill which has transformed the situation for the better. Millions have been forced to seek employment rather than collect welfare.
2006-06-07 04:11:41 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Military is welfare. Those guys have it tough and need to be taken care of. Welfare (food stamps, housing programs, etc) needs to be abolished because it's a form of communism and last I checked, capitalism works, not socialism/communism. I resent the fact that my hard-earned money and education is going to support "underprivileged" people when they could get an education just like I did and earn their own living.
2006-06-07 03:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by irishharpist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really, really should spend some time doing research. Most of the military comes from the middle class, not the poor.
And most do not come in looking for riches.
Should I conclude that you know not a soul who is or was in the military?
2006-06-07 04:02:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Promises from a Politician are useless - They couldn't find the truth if their lives depended on it - Try again
2006-06-07 04:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Dan W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have to blame your representatives and senators for that failure, not the President.
2006-06-07 03:47:53 · answer #5 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd vote for whoever ends welfare. welfare is for the weak and lazy. if you don't work, you don't deserve to live or eat. i don't care who it is, i'd vote for them if they ENDED welfare.
2006-06-07 04:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by hippieguitarist420 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋