Welfare mentality

[towerclimber37]

I have one HUGE bone to pick with all the A**holes who bitch about how much we are spending in our "two unneccessery wars"...are you f**king stupid....the VAST majority of that money spend goes right back into the AMERICAN economy. They (th sheeple) talk about how we spend a billion a month etc.well, the government has to pay extra for the troops to be there (seperations pay, combat pay, imminent danger pay etc) we have to pay the KBR truck drivers (who happen to be American) and we have to pay Blackwater for their services (oh yeah they're American too). Hell, with all these AMERICANS making money, do you think any of this money makes its way back into the US economy... HELL YES... When I came home in May I bought a $20,000 truck, a $150,000 house and several thousand dollars in guns and supplies. Oh yeah, they were all American made (OK my AK wasn't made here, but I contrubuted to a small business with the purchase). All the rest of my snipers came home and did the same....so don't go bo hooing over how much it costs us to fight in Iraq and the 'stan, because in the short and the long run it benefits US!!!!!!!!!!

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I guess one of the "small" benefits we get is. wait for it...YAH!!! I'm SAFE AT NIGHT!!!

oh look at that. nobody is bombing our buildings with airplanes. they're busy hiding in caves and looking up at the skies for predators.

Thats GOTTA be a good thing.

I'm curious 44m, what socialist country did you live in for 20 years?

[Guest Ghostrider]

I guess one of the "small" benefits we get is. wait for it...YAH!!! I'm SAFE AT NIGHT!!!

oh look at that. nobody is bombing our buildings with airplanes. they're busy hiding in caves and looking up at the skies for predators.

Thats GOTTA be a good thing.

AMEN to that!

Not to mention the fact that last time I checked, all those trucks, tanks, IFVs, aircraft, missiles, radar sets, NVGs, etc, etc, etc were made in the US as well. Just a little added bit. Yes, the govt is spending money, money that will have to be replenished somehow.

BUT, I (personally) would rather spend that money protecting the country from an enemy on forgein soil, than I would handing it to some dirt bags that have never lifted their hand once to improve this country, rather, have set back and bitched that they don't get enough handouts...

[BrasilNuts]

...the rest of the world has no respect for us...

Do you have first hand knowledge of this or did you just hear it from some talking head regurgitating the liberal talking points for you? Be careful of what you see on the news, the camera is bias when it comes to anti American protesters. I have lived in three (3) other countries and had my feet on the ground in who knows how many others, like a lot of the other people in this forum I have little experience in this area. Sure I’ve met people in those countries that absolutely hate America, but I can find plenty of those people in my own country too. The average person that I have met likes the United States and if you asked any of them if they would like to visit here the answer is always "YES!"

When it comes to respect...I really don’t care what they think.

[towerclimber37]

tower, thanks. I appreciate it. I may make mistakes, and I'll admit them, but I won't be untruthful.

Mike, I call it like I see it.

Character, like tea, shows its strength in hot water.

[Steelharp]

Update: Talked to Zak at church tonight. He didn't want to say which one, but it was a bank in Hendersonville where the ladies quit. Bank pres called a staff meeting, and these two just walked in and quit.

Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction.

[bubbiesdad]

The welfare mentality,,,