Deploying the Wisconsin National Guard is Wrong

[OneAngryDemocrat]

There is a reason why Gov. Walker wants to deploy the National Guard in Wisconsin, rather than pay unionized, professional, prison guards, in Wisconsin's state prisons.

Professional correctional officers receive more pay and benefits than Wisconsin's National Guard troops.

Deploying Guard units would enable the Walker administration to place America's Citizen Soldiers into harm's way, for two week tours, without having to honor these dedicated warriors with all of those benefits that the Wisconsin state legislation has seen fit to bestow upon those who serve their state, full time.

But there is more.

You see, the Governor's planned deployment would not even give these Guardsmen the 90+ days they would need to qualify for Active Duty benefits. The Federal government would have to approve the deployment for Wisconsin's citizen soldiers to be able to receive those benefits.

Wisconsin's heroes, therefore, would not even be eligible for the active army's G.I. Bill!

In other words, Governor Walker plans to endanger the lives of those men and women who have volunteered for the Guard, by placing them into the line, without actually owning up to the dangerous service that they would be asked to perform.

The Governor's plan is, therefore, shameful, and a complete disgrace.

I encourage everyone who agrees with this sentiment of mine from the great state of Wisconsin to write letters to your local newspaper editors, and ask them why the Governor hates our troops so much.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

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