Uncle Sam Wants You 20000 Dollars worth

By Paul Peete

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Since the Army recruiters have fallen short of their goals the last couple months even after the standards were lowered, age limit of recruits raised, and even arrest records overlooked in some cases, Uncle Sam is opening his wallet to entice the nation’s eligible citizens to enlist. Twenty Thousand Dollars if you agree to report within thirty days is the new incentive on top of the Fifty Thousand Dollars available for college already a recruitment perk. It speaks volumes as to the impact the nation’s attitude about this war is having on the military.

The politicians like to tout it as the all-volunteer services but a more accurate name is the Mercenary Military. Now this “Quick Shipper” bonus is being offered to those who are motivated by the cash; the economically disadvantaged. It has been the policy for quite some time to offer those with specialties in short supply in the military who reach the end of their commitment to offer larger and larger reenlistment bonuses and use all sorts of coercive techniques to push in theatre re-ups. It should be a cause for concern to all of us that the military is being supplied with soldiers whose loyalties are to the dollar and not their patriotism. Will they come home with their deadly training and experiences and use that same mentality to keep getting ahead. We saw what happened after the Viet Nam War how some veterans who were trained killers came back and caused an increase in violent crime.

We taxpayers are going to pay for this new incentive, lets hope that we don’t continue to pay after the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan end.