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"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> Skanky wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>The troops could sure
> >>>>>>>>>>>use some replacements and have
> >>>>>>>>>>>been forced to stay longer than
> >>>>>>>>>>>originally promised.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>"Forced" is a very strong word when used to refer to volunteer
> >>>>>
> >>>>>enlistees
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>and those who applied for commissions by their own free will;

part
> >>>
> >>>of
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>the deal includes going where the government sends them for as

> >
> > long
> >
> >>>as
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>the government sends them. Also, you're lying with respect to

any
> >>>>>>>>>>"promise" made about the duration of our presence in either
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Afghanistan,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Iraq, Germany, the UK, Korea, Okinawa, Diego Garcia, Italy, or

any
> >>>>>
> >>>>>other
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>nation where we have troops stationed (I assume you object only

to
> >>>
> >>>the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>first two when a very strong case can be made that the US should

> >
> > let
> >
> >>>>>>>>>>Europe defend itself at its own expense), but I don't expect you

> >
> > to
> >
> >>>>>know
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>the difference or truth about any of it. There have been no

> >
> > promises
> >
> >>>>>>>>>>except that we'll maintain our troops in those nations until

they
> >>>
> >>>can
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>adequately secure their own borders or as long as we have

> >
> > alliances
> >
> >>>>>like
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>NATO which call for us to maintain troops in certain regions.

You
> >>>>>>>>>>****ing drug-addled ignoramus.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>The US spends billions of dollars in
> >>>>>>>>>overseas politics
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>We spend billions more in feeding and caring for people who can't

> >
> > feed
> >
> >>>>>>>>or care for themselves in a variety of shit holes around the

world.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>when it should be
> >>>>>>>>>taking care of it's own.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>We do, and we sure as hell don't need muddleheaded dopes from

> >
> > Toronto
> >
> >>>>>>>>(ahem) telling us how to run our wonderful country. So go ****
> >>>
> >>>yourself.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>>You know full well
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>We sure as hell don't need muddleheaded dopes from Toronto (ahem)
> >>>>>>telling us how to run our wonderful country. So go **** yourself.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Such a wonderful country
> >>>>
> >>>>Yes, because we ignore carless, muddleheaded, arrested-development

dopes
> >>>
> >>>>from Toronto.
> >>>
> >>>How old are you
> >>
> >>Too young (and smart) for you, you carless whore.

> >
> > Grow up.

>
> That's very rich coming from an arrested-development pothead with
> agoraphobia.
>
> > For your gratuitous insults,

>
> They're not gratuitous. They're spot-on.
>
> > I will not answer the rest of this post.
> > You blew it.

>
> Is this supposed to be some kind of punishment, lol?


Yep, go away now, little boy.


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> WRT your whining about blaming victims, consider this from USA TODAY
> this morning:
>
> Two months after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of New Orleans
> businesses are ready to resume normal operations, but it's not
> water or wind damage that stands in their way. There's no one to
> mind the store. New Orleans needs waiters, cooks, housekeepers,
> dry cleaners, paralegals, cab drivers, doctors, nurses, ship
> builders, oil workers and more.
>
> The number of openings in New Orleans has more than tripled
> since Katrina hit on Aug. 29. Before the storm, the state
> Department of Labor averaged 708 job openings a month in Orleans
> Parish; a recent check showed postings for about 2,500 jobs. And
> that's just employers who have listed openings. Businesses large
> and small are desperately seeking workers, and in many
> industries, wages are rising....
>
> Contractor Jose Garcia lost half of his workers and now pays
> double to compete with $22-an-hour cleanup jobs. Restaurants
> that used to pay the $5.15-an-hour minimum wage are offering $8
> or more. And everyone is talking about the $6,000 bonus Burger
> King will give anyone who signs on for a year.
>
> Don Hutchinson, director of the Mayor's Office of Economic
> Development, is excited about the wages. "Between the high
> demand for employees and the amount that the Federal Emergency
> Management Agency is paying workers, the wage rate across the
> board is going up," he says. "The ultimate outcome we are
> looking for is that we have a much larger middle class than
> we've ever had before...."
>
> [Woody] Oge sees one other problem. Evacuees "have been living
> rent-free and eating free food through subsidies from FEMA and
> the Red Cross," he says. "I think in many cases that grant money
> needs to subside, to give people an incentive to come back."
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...business_x.htm
>
> So there ARE jobs, and they're paying very damn well. The problem is
> that these people -- most of whom are destitute because they didn't plan
> their lives well enough to take care of themselves BEFORE Katrina --
> have no intention of returning OR of working.
>
> In the meantime, the number of complaints about evacuees getting drunk
> or acting obscene in public, not paying rent for their new apartments,
> being involved in crimes (including murder of those assisting them),
> spending voucher funds on lap dances and luxury handbags and lingerie,
> etc., continue to rise.
> http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/...e/13054132.htm
> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...story2/3424792
>

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...fenders01.html
> http://tinyurl.com/737xx
> http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4435
> Etc.
>
> We offered to help, but many of them won't even help themselves. No good
> deed goes unpunished. Ever.