Re: Misleading Headlines
Ivan re. #21 and foreign aid and to whom it goes to.
I too get upset with my tax dollars speeding away to Swiss banks or to purchase luxury property in either the UK or the USA by thieving despots. Add to the fact that the States is looked down on until some enemy comes knocking on these "allies" door and suddenly, we are their "good friend", but let safety come back and so does the snide comments. But that's the price of being number one. Currently, the USA is number one, and will be in my lifetime and probably during my son's life span, but I'm not sure about it lasting through my grandkid's life span (both boys).
It happened to the UK, it happened to Holland, Spain and all the way back to the Romans. Empires or leading the way come and go, so it will happen to the USA. It's usually by a form of corruption from within or resting on a countries laurels.
I'm not exactly a pacifist, neither am I a bully by nature, but I sure as hell didn't want to get killed or maimed as a Brit. in either Malaya, Cyprus, Egypt, Korea, Kenya or and other armpit countries. Neither as a yank in Viet Nam. I breathed a big sigh of relief when I outlived draft age. Funny thing I found out (after I had passed draft age) that I would not have been drafted as I'm 80% blind from birth in my left eye and if I lost my right eye, it meant a white cane for the rest of my life and a pension, so the forces of either country wouldn't have drafted me. I got into the MN, because I cheated on the eye exam. Which I had automatically done in every eye exam. I can't do it today with the machines they use in eye exams.
A childhood friend of mine joined the R.N and his one wish was to be a Navy lifer. He got the day off, I think it was in Cyprus, anyway having a drink outside a cafe' he got shot in the lung, lived, but lost a lung, and was out of the R.N., I'm sure he got a pension, but he lost a career that had been a childhood dream and no pension or partial pension would make up for that.
Cheers, Rodney
Last edited by Rodney Mills; 28th July 2023 at 05:22 PM.
Rodney David Richard Mills
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