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Article #620123Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:40
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:40
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On 2018-02-11, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 8:49:19 AM UTC-7, JimP wrote: > >> Pay checks are never enough for the lower ranks in the military. I >> knew several guys on my ship that were on food stamps due to low pay. > >> All this extra spending will go to hardware, not pay checks. it >> doesn't matter how many tanks, airplanes, and ships we have, if there >> aren't enough people to operate them due to crappy pay. > > Although that's true enough, I don't really think that improving the pay offered > to those serving in the military will actually improve this to the extent > desired. Given Afghanistan and Iraq, it is generally realized that if one were > to enlist in the armed services, there is a real possibility that one could be > called upon to serve in combat, where one could actually be *killed*. > > Given that, failing a tremendous upsurge in national patriotic feeling and a > number of other changes in social factors (such as an increase in religious > belief which includes belief in an afterlife), I am amazed that it is possible > to get *anyone* to serve in the military. > > John Savard For someone with a poor background, most national armies will teach a trade, and I know that after WWII, the military, via Congress, paid for college. It can restart peoples lives, but then again, you can finish up with three limbs out of four. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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