Military Recruiters must await "Opt-In"

[Steeplerot]

What I want to know is which one of you is the top? Or do you all rock paper scissors in the morning?

 

[slash196]

Anything to get those annoying asses off my back.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: slash196
Anything to get those annoying asses off my back.

Forget to login as your other user ID?


Hey, guess what - this is a discussion forum. You know - people post ideas, other people reply either agreeing with you or disagreeing with you and telling you why they believe they are right and you are wrong. WTF were you expecting? Some big circle-jerk where everyone would read your flame-worthy mistatements and decide to chime in about how correct and great you are? Well you did get some of that, but then you also had others call you out and disagree with you. So what do you do? Do you try to defend and clarify your position with subsequent posts? Do you apologize for any nontruthful information? No - you apparently decided to whine about being 'picked' on by other posters.

The last thing this board needs are more high-and-mighty posters who think they should be able to post anything they want without fear of their fragile little belief system ever being challenged by anyone else. Either get some thicker skin and some real convictions, or try posting here instead. But watch out, some of those 8 year olds may see through your garbage and call you out on it, too.

 

[motard]

Originally posted by: tss4

Originally posted by: razor2025
CAD and CK, do you just look around on the web for statistics to nitpick about people's post? The posts by two of you have yet to address my MAIN POINT of my post. Instead of digging through statistics to post "ooo see? u're wrong on your number" type of comment, how about you actually post something that relates to the general point of my post? Try posting something meaningful like "no, the education system today is doing quite well". How about that? Why don't you address the issue regarding how military recruiter preys upon under-educated students? Which was the main point of my post.

If you're trying to have a constructive argument, then please post something that is meaningful. Bashing someone's post with statistic without addressing the main topic is completely meaningless.

Well, I did ask you several questions about your post but you ignored them. I'll try one more time. you said this:

"This is THE PROBLEM. Our government has been lagging in creating an educational system that enable the kids to have logical and informed mind. Without a logical and informed mind, that person, (kid or adult) WILL make a decision that is not to his/her best interest. So it IS the government's best interest to keep our education system dumbed down. A stupid populace is more managable populace. This holds true for any-type of government, be it commie or democratic. Our founding fathers EMPHASIZED that democracy can only truly work if the population is educated and logical. However, those in power doesn't believe in that.. No.. we can't have educated voters, that'll be CRAZY! (Just take a look at educational level of voters. Kerry received more votes from voters who had higher education)."

First, I see no evidence that there is significant group of young adults signing up for the military and then regretting their decision. Most people that can go to college, go to college as opposed to serving in the military. Our military is primarily made up of those that had no intention of going to college. If one does not go to college then the military is an excellent carrer choice given the type of jobs that will be available to them.

Second, you said this:

"People, you need to WAKE UP and smell the roses. Our government has became the corrupted whore of Corporate America. What the politicians do today are in the interest of those who are in power. If you sign up to do the dirty work for the government, you're really doing the dirty work for Corporate America. Unless you understand this, and you logically conclude that potential financial benefit outweights the consequences, then you are just brain-washed idiots. "

I asked you this allready in a previos post but I'll ask a again. How is joining the military any better then working directly for the corporatations? Aren't you still being used by them?

Lastly, just to make a few other various comments. We're talking about 18 year old men and women. I have not met these drooling babling idiots then can be so easily intimidated into signing up for the military that you seem to fell your school was full of. If their so dumb and so willing to sign up, then why do all the branches with the exception of the air force hace recruiting problems now?

I just feel you make a lot of sensational claims in your post but fail to actually support them.

Yea, we can blame the government that our children are stupid, that the government isn't doing enough. When children come back home watch eight hours of unitellectual crap, go on the internet watch porn, or whatever and blame the government. Give me a break, blaming the government for making your child stupid is like blaming Mcdonalds for making hot coffee that caused you pain when it was YOU would spilled it on yourself in the first place.
Whatever happened to responsibility as a parent? IF ANYTHING, parents are to blame for making their children stupid.

Which brings me to another point of that whiny complaint of yours, that our government has become a corporate "whore." If you drive a car, take a bus, buy brand name clothing, take medication, or sing stupid jingles to yourself on the elevator, then do you find it a bit hypocritical blaming the government as being a corporate "whore" when you are a part of the system?... When your children asks you to buy some mass produced garbage from China which it saw on the television when it should have been studying for school in the first place?

Who is to really blame here? The government? Or you?
Who here lacks self-control or responsibility and for that matter social responsibility?
Just as you have felt of the previous poster, I too feel you have made a lot of sensational claims in your post yet fail to actually support them.