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highwaystar101 said:
Tyrannical said:
highwaystar101 said:
Here's a situation I imagine is all too common. A very poor isolated community, where no-one has money, has the army come and offer jobs to the people of the town. A few people decide to join up seeing it as a way to feed their families as it is easier than getting a job in the poor town. They go to Iraq and get involved in conflicts, many of them come back with serious injuries that require attention. without Government grants for healthcare or national healthcare who would they turn to? Because no-one else they know has little money anyway, not enough to spare.

 

You must have the US confused with some third world country. Or perhaps some other part of Europe.

You don't read before you post, do you?

 

"All too common very poor isolated communities where no one has money" does not make me think of the US. In fact, none of what you stated makes any sense because the US is not like that. You seem to think nothing happens without government involvement, which in fact is far from the truth. Too much government is often the cause of problems, not the solution.

 



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire