Originally Posted by
scambo1
Its been in the works for a couple of months. About two years ago, the guard and reserves both stopped pushing the pension in their recruiting paperwork. There is no reason for a person to subject themselves (voluntarily) to the full time military lifestyle without some sort of return at the end of their servce. The gov't is trying to formulate some sort of 401-ish pension scheme to keep people in long term. Their investment vehicles currently offered (in the gov't 401's) only work in a rising stock market.
There are several third and fourth order effects that will result from this sort of program being ended. Conscripts can't keep the military running.
If our military was in the business of
national DEFENSE instead of whatever whim adventure the president or congress deems cause du jour, maybe there wouldn't be a need for such a large standing force, and also it wouldn't be hard to recruit if our true sovereignty was being threatened....
By the way, I think people who are willing to get shot at as volunteers for our nation deserve the best pension/retirement plans of any government employees.