>>1445465>Massive oil subsidies and several decades of the government subsidizing k so you admit socialism is cancer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/dbjo9/reminder_the_us_military_is_a_socialist/>Having been in the military for going on 11 years, I can say that you are absolutely right on every point >Anyone who says that the military is not a microcosm of socialism is wrong, and if you asked most people in the military they would say that the benefits they have are awesome, hands down. But due to cognitive dissonance, they would applaud their benefits and deny them to others.>In the Army, units get a certain amount of money every year to spend on various things. If they DON'T spend that money, it is assumed they don't need it, and next years funds for that purpose are cut. So the clear incentive here is, when the fiscal year nears its end, you have to start blowing all excess funds you haven't used more than likely on shit you don't need. Just so that you'll have the funds available in the future in case you DO need it. When things break, they aren't fixed, say a keypad goes bad on a digital sender, the simple thing to do is, turn it is, an buy a new one for $1300. Look at the burn pits in Iraq.>The one time I get parasites while in the Army, they never would bother to diagnose it. They just treated the symptoms, despite 4 months of violent attacks, I had to break regulations, and illegally go to an off-post pharmacists to get medication to get treated. (this was OCONUS)>My motor Sergent got a pipe/shunt wedged into his ankle, goes to the clinic, doctor says, "sit right down on the table we'll be right with you". Next thing he knows he wakes up in blackness laying in a pool of blood. Turns out he passed out and they shut down the clinic and went home forgetting he was back there. Luckily the bleeding hole in his ankle clotted on its own. He had to call the MPs to get him out, because the building was alarmed. 