Phil,
Parroting WSJ comments section?
How many “many of whom couldn’t be bothered to finish public high school, aren’t qualified to do anything else” are Veterans ?That is what they fought for?!Who risked their skin and limbs for their nation , in order that business employers could squeeze what is left of them,when they come back?
During every conflict it s’ those who shirk serving stay back and wax rich (Do a search almost every household ‘rich name’ made a major part of their climb while being shirkers literally on the backs of their citizens who gave their all?! Have the employers go risk something worthwhile for a change
Here is from April 2011:
‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII
Here are some excerpts.
‘What is extraordinary … is their vehement insistence that those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war would now be turning in their graves.
…“My patriotism has gone out of the window,” said an ex-serviceman.
..“Our British culture is draining away at an ever increasing pace,” wrote an ex-Durham Light Infantryman, “and we are almost forbidden to make any comment.”
‘A widow from Solihull blamed the Thatcher years “when we started to lose all our industry and profit became the only aim in life.”
Her husband, a veteran of Dunkirk and Burma, died a disappointed man, believing that his seven years in the Army were wasted.
…“As I look around parts of Birmingham today you would never know you were in England,” she wrote. “He would have hated it.”