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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12678)	12/4/2001 5:10:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<There was a grievous dilution of pay scales for the professional NCO and Officer careerists, when money had to be siphoned off to pay some snot-nosed private E-1 $1,000/month while receiving training.> Hawk, what about that "love of country" stuff we were just reading about? It seems that we can in fact put a price on freedom and $1000 is too much for snot-nosed people. But why should snot-nosed officers wanting a sinecure get more? They have got payment in "love of country" whereas the snot-nosed private in training gets "contempt of the officer class" it seems. Yep, get them conscript slaves in and boost the officer class payments. It doesn't look like a land of freedom to me if you get to call the shots, [other than for the snot-nosed officer class of course]. Plus ca change, Mq PS: <Using conscription to fill the lower ranks means more money is available to creating a cadre force that can be rapidly expanded should a major war erupt.> Hahahaha!!! Hey, use conscription to fill the snot-nosed officer ranks and pay them with Love of Country to really save some money.