On Feb 28, 7:25 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Kevin  Gowen <kgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 28, 9:19 am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > > Kevin  Gowen <kgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > The military is a good place for directionless white trash who think
> > > > that HONOR and VALOR and EMPTY BUZZWORDS flow from a contract with the
> > > > government. If you think someone's willingness to kill whomever they
> > > > are told is a moral good, the military might be a good place for you!
>
> > > Actually, I've always thought that military service  should have been a
> > > requirement to be elected to Congress or the Presidency/ After all, if
> > > one makes decisions about people going to war, one should have some
> > > experience with the organization leading the war.
> > The President and Congress also approve budgets and make policy about
> > myriad matters such as energy, education, labor, the economy, and
> > others. What compulsory experience should we have in those areas?
>
> Perhaps your part of the country doesn't have any experience with labor,
> or economics, much less require an education, but we have all those
> out here on the West Coast.

Well, I am sure you have lots of military bases out there on the West
Coast as well, so I guess it is good enough that the lawmakers simply
live somewhere in the general vicinity of at least one of them.

> Also, typically, none of these issues traditionally revolves around
> sending other people's sons off to die on foreign soil.

Tough break for all of those sons who volunteered. No one ever cries
very much for the commercial fisherman or electricians who have a
higher job mortality rate than the military.

> Just a heads up, in case you ever DO encounter labor, or an education.

I got a classy education so I wouldn't have to encounter "labor"
types.

- Kevin