Destruction of the Safety Net Is To Provide Soldiers For Our War Machine

[Solomon]

The reason they are so confident that they will not have to re-institute the draft is that they know that their policies will lead to more poverty and therefore more grunts enlisting in the military.

Pretty soon there will be a whole class of people whose only "job opportunity" will be making minimal wages as a soldier.

We can't give them better armor or equipment because it's cheaper that they die in action than get wounded in action.

Hate to sound so cynical, but there it is.

[formercia]

1. 'Standardized' education in public schools and less student aid

will prevent capable students from going to college. The military offers educational incentives as a means to a university degree. It was the route I had to take and I was lucky to not be severely injured as a result. Others were not so lucky.
The 'dumbing down' of the public school system is the administration's attempt to further divide the income gap between rich and poor by making it very difficult for lower and middle-class parents to afford sending their children to top tier universities. Soon, only the wealthy will be able to afford the cost of a premium education and as a result, their children will get the top jobs in business and industry. Class warfare in its most insidious form.

[B Calm]

2. It's all in their plan to hire millions of desperate people as cheap labor

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. yes.

[Greyhound]

4. Only one of the many benefits of The Plan. By implementing The Plan

we get an unending supply of fodder for our war machine, a desperate workforce that has no choice but to take their place in line at the company store, and our offspring don't have to worry about all those mongrels competing with them for the positions that require a degree from a 'good school'.

[teryang]

5. The Pentagon is being led by corporate policies including...

...keeping personnel costs to a minimum; using part time workers, the national guard and reserve; and using private defense contractors so corporations can line their pockets at taxpayer expense.

The war model they intend to follow is personnel limited, emphasizing, covert ops, special forces, regime change, psyops, etc. Conventional conflict should be fought by manipulation of proxy forces or surrogates whenever possible, with American cadre and support forces only. (This is the Rhodesian model of colonialism.) Where conventional conflict cannot be avoided, the emphasis will be on securing strategic areas only and aerospace and electromagnetic dominance of peripheral areas. If worst comes to worst and the oddly small American ground forces (given the gargantuan budget) be pitted against a larger well armed foe, the use of nuclear weapons, pre-emptively if necessary, is this administrations policy. We may find out how this works, this year.

They don't really want to have a large standing force, that would take resources away from the defense contractor corporate looters.

[chat_noir]

6. Medicare D, nutrition-in-a-box, bird flu, decreased funding for diabetes,.

etc., will take care of the old and the infirm.

[applegrove]

7. Why the British Army was so big in the 19th Century. Those young

lads had no jobs and nothing but toil & sorry labour unless they joined the army/navy. In which case they had more than two cents to rub together and could enjoy a beer and a semi-middle class lifestyle.

Of course that is why the social safety net is the enemy. When granny has to eat cat-food, you better believe beloved grandson will sign up for a signing bonus.

[Harald Ragnarsson]

8. I think they just hate the safety net and anyone that needs it

They can always ship in illegals and offer them citizenship for joining the military. I think it's been done a lot more than people are ware of.

It might explain photos claiming to be American GIs buried in mass graves in Iraq too. Native born Americans probably have someone asking about them. Families of non-citizens taken into the military may never find out what happened to them.

[pitohui]

9. well they're gonna have some awfully old soldiers

i don't quite see where the attack on social security, medicare, old folk's food baskets etc. fits into all this, they did raise enlistment age to 40 the other day, but this still leaves huge numbers of old people w. no way to buy medicine or heat their homes

there are a good many people who are abt ready to say they'd be happy to join the army for medical benefits but the army is not looking for old partly disabled folks in their 50s

[JanMichael]

10. I agree. A surplus army of the poor and unemployed.

It's pure evil.