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Republicans May Have A Math Problem In Debt Ceiling Standoff
If you take House Republicans' budget bombast literally, a key GOP demand for agreeing to a debt ceiling increase will be mathematically challenging to meet.
That's a polite way of suggesting that some GOP lawmakers may be insisting on the impossible. During his fraught campaign to secure the House gavel, Kevin McCarthy reportedly promised holdouts he wouldn't acquiesce to a debt ceiling increase "absent a discretionary budgetary agreement in line with the House-passed budget resolution or othe
These are the worst hostage takers since The Lone Rangers took over KPPX.
I think that the US military is one of the best social upward mobility opportunities that the United States offers to our citizens. (Education is also right up there)
The men and women who enlist are given an opportunity to learn responsibility, how to work with a team, leadership, personal financial management and many other life skills which can change the course of those individuals’ lives. The skills they learn while enlisted can then be utilized within the military organization or in other private/governmental organizations to be financially independent.
One other thing it offers is a chance to understand how you measure up against your peers from across the county under the innate conditions of military service where kissing ass or good looks are not as viable as they are in the real world.
Furthermore there is a real adjustment back to civilian life that is most likely to challenge, disabled veterans, combat veterans, deployed veterans, and to a lessor degree those vets who serve overseas for long periods. It is not always easy to completely take advantage of all of that other good stuff in short order, post service. It is not comparable to traditional education in that regard, and in fact some soldiers who are in field heavy / or conflict ready occupations are damn sure falling behind their college peers in some in some very important educational conduits along the timeline. Believe it or not there is also a strong anti veteran sentiment in some corners of the employment universe.
Nothing is perfect.
We have high school graduates today who are incapable of reading, writing and doing math at what high school graduates could do when I graduated from (public) high school.
I am “old”, but not THAT old!