Anybody else concerned that McCain would rather see our youth in war than college?

I'm sitting here, listening to the news about McCain's reasons for not signing the GI bill. His reason is that he wants people to make a career out of the military and doesn't want to inspire people to leave the military early to go to college. What kind of crap is that?

I'm sorry.. but I would never be ashamed of someone who chose to go to college over the military. And I would never be ashamed of someone who wanted to leave the military to go to college. Basically McCain is showing how little he cares for education which should be the cornerstone of building a higher level society.

Even all the benefits he talks about are all aimed at military.. but I have yet to hear anything from him about benefits for civilians. I don't know about you all.. but someone like that scares the hell out of me and what that means to the future of this country.

To all you "if hillary doesn't win, I'm voting McCain" or "if obama isn't the nom, I'm not voting" idiots... this is what you're getting yourself into. Hope you don't mind your kids being trapped in the military if they join and decide to move onto something else when they're done with their service that they agree to.

..... They're doing EVERYTHING they can to make college less accessible. An educated populace is very much a threat to their mindf**k world.

The "ruling class" need lots of serfs to do their menial
labor, which is why they have historically felt threatened
by a middle class and do everything they can do keep
people from moving up in society (which is especially
possible thanks to higher education). It's the overall
societal equivalent of keeping women barefoot and pregnant
(and thus powerless).

Simple as that.

Not that he was very good at warring/flying either...

K & R for your strong OP.

that we can hang all the other arguments that dismantle his claim of loving and standing up for the troops.

We can use it to doubt his patriotism at this late stage of his life - he is more concerned with corporate profits than the soldiers he claims to love so much.

...Hillary supporters know this, so have no fear, the vast majority will support a democratic ticket. Just start working together and move for unity at the convention

"...in uniform." McCain has been raise, hard-wired, fed & keyed upon war. Hartman went on to illuminate that McCain is presuming the mantle of a republican cult of death that has been running absolutely amok for decades on end and counting.

This republican cult of death madness must be stopped! And then tried & sentenced for crimes against humanity.

Apologizes to the Obama campaign, but Schuster was right. McCain is a war monger.

He wants them to be stuck in the military. His justification for voting against the GI bill was that it would "hurt retention". Well, genius, if you wanna help retention how about fixing this effed-up Iraq occupation and the treatment of wounded vets who come home?

When I heard about the Webb GI Bill I couldn't possibly fathom a good reason for Republicans to oppose it, other than they would rather spend the money to give rich people tax cuts. Then I read an article in the National Review that outlines the right wingers' position and it discusses how we need incentives for retention. Basically this amounts to "If we give our soldiers money to go to college, we won't have anybody to get shot at in Iraq."

McCain won't admit that. He gets around it with a combination of "We want to retain them because we want them to become non-commissioned officers" and "How dare Barack Obama criticize me, I was a POW".

I could hardly believe his rational, particularly given the horrid schedule of combat rotations that has been adopted. I don't think we have ever made the lives of the soldiers as miserable as we have in this war, and the results are seen in PSTD and other difficulties. McCain just shuts another door.

the nominee" is passion talking. Most people will simmer down and see how stupid that sort of thing would be.

Does McCain really know why he opposed the GI Bill? He makes so little sense that I wonder sometimes if he knows his own mind. That's why he needs a whisperer trailing him around. He needs to be reminded about what his positions should be.

:hi:

MLK and St. Thomas Aquinas spoke vigorously against man being used as a means to an end as contrary to moral imperative. McCain, like slave owners, sees mankind as a means to an end. It is ethical servitude and that he would use these young men and women for such a purpose speaks to itself.

Very fine post!!!

You make an excellent point. There's so many kids out there now who don't qualify for grants, yet their parents don't have the money in hand to pay for their school nor credit left to help the kid get a loan. The only recourse left is to work at a McJob or join the military and utilize the college funding for their serving.

Personally, I won't be responsible for this and other devastations that will take place under a McCain presidency.

The Volk needn't gain much education, since their primary value to the National Socialist Party is to serve as soldiers of the Reich. Besides, the Volk are only confused by the Jewish and Jesuit sophistry and foolery that passes in the universities. In time the universities will wither away, as the fine young men produced by the military academies assume their rightful place in the Reich order.

This isn't from Mein Kampf -- in fact I made it up. But wouldn't y'all agree that voting against the GI bill is a step closer to voting for closing universities and (ultimately) burning books?

This man is chilling. Truly chilling.

How many of our current "I got mine - fuck them" bootstrappers conveniently forget that without the GI Bill, their parents or grandparents would have come back from the war penniless and shell-shocked (as they called it then) with nowhere to go but back to the old city tenements? With nothing for future generations to inherit?

Fuck that. You start a war, you pay for it. And that includes taking care of every single fucking soul who sacrificed their physical and mental health to do the fighting for you, for LIFE. You bet it's expensive. Don't even think about doing it if you're not willing to pay it.