SeaGypsy wrote:I think the U.S. Military veterans pensions are going to be a crippler over coming years. Of a bunch of ex service personnel I am friendly with are a bunch of guys in their 70s & 80s from the Korea & Vietnam war eras, copping near $1k a week, for decades, living in 3rd world countries where their money goes much further than at home, but does essentially nothing for the U.S. economy. There must be hundreds of thousands of these guys scattered around the world now, with thousands more a month added.
SeaGypsy wrote:Some of the older guys were decorated, almost all the younger guys are on disability from combat & getting close to $1k a week in their 20's. Isn't there about 270k new VA pensions granted a year? With a good chunk of that being young guys with PTSD?
SeaGypsy wrote:Some of the older guys were decorated, almost all the younger guys are on disability from combat & getting close to $1k a week in their 20's. Isn't there about 270k new VA pensions granted a year? With a good chunk of that being young guys with PTSD?
Pops wrote:Privatization.
Why commit to a soldier when you can pay a contractor piece-work rates and be done?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
careinke wrote:Pops wrote:Privatization.
Why commit to a soldier when you can pay a contractor piece-work rates and be done?
Good idea lets make the soldiers free range slaves instead of having to take care them.
For more than 20 years, the Government Accountability Office has never been able to produce a clean audit at the Defense Department, as required by federal law to allow appropriations for the next fiscal year, because of hundreds of millions of dollars in unaccounted annual expenditures. What does the federal government spend for military purposes? It is far larger than appropriations and allocations just to the DoD! Most citizens are not cognizant, and politicians disguise actual total military expenditures. These expenditures and obligations account for approximately 25 percent of the total federal fiscal budget, or about 5.3 percent of U.S. GDP. The United Kingdom and Japan, on the other hand, restrict total military expenditure to 2 percent and 1 percent of their GDP, respectively. For FY2018, actual U.S. military expenditures and obligations not only include DoD appropriations ($622 billion) that the Office of Management of the Budget
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