printYou’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who will commiserate with your loss or dub it “dangerous and bad for the morale”—a risk to your family—in the event that you get the pink slip while serving nobly in the private economy, supplying fellow Americans with the services and products they need and desire.
On the other hand, the Pentagon “shrinks” the largest military in the world a smidgen—and the military-industrial-complex’s spokespeople fly into a rage.
Said Major Gen. Robert Scales: “It puts the soldier, the soldier’s family and the men under his command at risk.”
Seconded Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee:
Once again [President Obama] is putting domestic politics ahead of the security of our nation. The Army captains and majors receiving pink slips while on the battlefield is just the latest example. My heart goes out to these men and women who are risking their lives and making great sacrifices, yet are now being told they are being separated from the Army and will have no job when they return home to their families.
Why should Army captains and majors be spared unemployment, a reality that faces American working in the market economy?
Militarism gone mad.