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In reply to the discussion: 5 Signs America’s Super-Rich Are Going Off the Deep End [View all]elzenmahn
(904 posts)...most of our volunteer military isn't made up of the upper classes and the rich. Most of our military comes from the working classes and the poor. They may be serving Corporate America now, but how long will it last when those soldiers are overseas, fighting for Big Oil and Big Money, and seeing their family and friends struggling to get by, going to continue to fight?
Many soldiers are already seeing it, but I submit it's only a matter of time before the level in trust in the military by the Oligarchs will reach such a low that they'll hire their own mercenary armies.
Pay a private mercenary army six digits per head to protect your private compound(s)? And those mercenaries will have had military training? A worthwhile investment to many of these pigs - and for the mercenaries, nice work if you can get it.