The Coming Great Depression

Nice designation. I hope it doesn’t think it’s off the hook now.

PTSD is no joke…

Nobody cares. We spend more than the rest of the world put together on war spending, but we still need not-for-profits like the Wounded Warrior Project to take care of people once they get back here, if they make it back.

Well, the fact that the Wounded Warrior Project exists proves that some people do care. The point is that we don’t fund the military with an eye toward doing the best for those who serve.

Sorry, we don’t allow deficit spending in this country.

Shouldn’t Mullen stick to more important matters like his push for homosexuals in the military?

I don’t know, I’d consider both issues important and for varying reasons that they couldn’t be compared to say which one was necessarily more important than the other.
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Especially since the mental health of some officers might be stressed further by the policies put in place by the armed forces. While on the other hand, impacts an enormous cross section of the armed forces.
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But you probably were trying to be facetious, isn’t that cute.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/13/joel-burns-texas-councilman_n_761260.html
Again, textee, please watch this video and then check your humanity.

So to me it looks like Mark Thompson is currently the most worthwhile writer on Swampland.
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I know Pickert does a lot of work on the health care beat, but I just don’t have the attention span to wade through a dozen more paragraphs on little-known effects of the ACA.
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But after scrolling past Scherer’s campaign ads and Crowley’s pablum, I usually stop to read Thompson, since he’s got interesting things to say about the military.

I think people do care. I am not only concerned about jobs and prospects for the future for these returning soldiers, but the next coming generation. What are the skilled people going to do that like to work with their hands? There are no jobs for them in this service economy. Not everybody wants to or can sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day. Some even like to be outside, unlike the hacks that troll these posts.

Elvis,

Well, Teapublicans like Sharron Angle in Nevada say that they’ll solve the (supposed) problem by privatizing the Veterans Administration. That’d give all the veterans all the health care they need, at lower cost, right?
Then there would be no need for NGOs like Wounded Warriors, right? Matter of fact, the “private sector” companies taking over health care would probably lobby to make all those charities pay taxes – in order to “level the playing field”. That’s only fair, right?

“Some even like to be outside, unlike the hacks that troll these posts.”
That insult was unnecessary.

“What are the skilled people going to do that like to work with their hands? There are no jobs for them in this service economy.”

Maybe you should tell your Repub masters to stop blocking Democratic efforts to kill the tax breaks that we give corporations to ship skilled jobs overseas.

What tax breaks are those herby? You mean NAFTA? You want to repeal NAFTA? OK. Strike up the legislation. You want to kill China out of the WTO, OK. I’m there. We have a global economy, as you side has lectured us about for the last 20 years. The problem is that we have entered into “free” trade agreements like naive children.
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Or, the other alternative is that our government has sold us out. That’s also a very possible scenario.
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I get a little tired of all the blaming. There are only a few hundred people that are responsible for this whole messed up economy. They are on both sides of the political aisle. To blame Corporations for making money and taking advantage of opportunities is really naive. That’s what corporations are specifically designed to do. What the politicians need to do is make opportunities for business and corporations to make a profit here.
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But that won’t get the politician a vote from you. You have been programmed to hate corporations. So, you have pushed them overseas. You and the regulations and taxes imposed by the politicians that have programmed you.

“for many it’s just the beginning”

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/by-their-fruits/