Semper Fidelis a Shareholders

"If I ran my army like the government runs theirs, I wouldn't have an army!"

That's paraphrasing the familiar conservative rant that typically goes: "If I ran my business like the government, I wouldn't have a business!"

That's usually said on the internet by people who don't actually have a business but did see the movie "Dave", where the line likely originated.

If people can have imaginary businesses on the 'net, why not imaginary armies?

If you think about it though, our military costs trillions and hasn't really shown a profit since 1945.  It costs a lot of money and, frankly, it's government socialism to the nth degree. Maybe it's time we privatize the military by turning it over to our corporations and running it at a profit for a change? As any republican in the House of Representatives can attest, government ruins everything. This November, many of them will have spent millions of dollars to keep or attain a seat in government to keep destroying it from within so, that ought to tell you how serious they are. They really, really hate government. It shows.

Socialism is when the "state" cares for people from womb to tomb. Or maybe that's communism?  It doesn't matter. The two are interchangeable on the internet and Fox news and I might really mean Muslimism anyways. I don't know. If you know you are probably one of those elitist democrats.

Anyway, if you are in the military, you work for the government. You get free food, housing and- worst of all- healthcare! How disgustingly socialist is that? Well, very. I cannot believe that our republican leaders allow this. It only leads to more and more wasteful spending that only serves to perpetuate the socialist military and socialist government.

If we privatize the military we would see it run efficiently and at a profit as the free market dictates. The government shouldn't pick winners and losers. If your army cannot fight and fight at a profit, you don't deserve to be in the army business. If lucky, your army may be bought out by more successful armies the same as mom and pop armies who discover that they can't compete with the volume-minded big armies.

It's a brave, new world of corporatocracy that we are marching into and privatization of the military would make the transition a whole lot easier. Plus, it would be a big slap in the face to that socialist Muslim, Barack Obama. I think that's something any idiot can get behind because, ya know, socialism in any form is evil!