and i don't think it's an accident that it's come to this. how much does this country spend on the MIC compared to what it spends on educating its citizens? it's rapidly approaching the day when only rich kids will be able to be educated well enough to have options that don't necessarily include a stint in the army.

since at least Reagan this has been going on and as i said, i don't think it's an accident. these are our children, and those raised without all the advantages are nothing to the MIC but bodies to throw at their fucking wars. chattel. assets. i don't think they even think of them as human beings. witness stop-loss and the general neglect of the troops, not to mention the fucking WARS.

and i despise that!! my son graduates high school next year. how the hell am i going to get him through college??? he casually mentions he's gonna join the military and i take it as a not so passive form of aggression toward me. he doesn't even appreciate that i cannot take it as a joke and i'd rather move him out of the US than to see him in the military at this point in time, when the USA is involved in these horribly wrong wars of aggression, killing people who even if they want to have no realistic way of posing a threat to us.

he will be 18 years old in May. if he enlists there will be nothing i can do personally to change it. in the meantime he gets an earful on a regular basis about why he just can't do that!

sorry if i don't make sense you touched a nerve but i'm at work.