Any vets among the Audiophiles here?

Bummer. I completely misinterpreted the heading. I was going to ask advice concerning my Akita.

He's wolfish. A spitz breed like Huskies, Malamutes, Samoyeds. More feral certainly than your basic boxer or spaniel. And much more dangerous, but no wolf. I'm sure they'd take him down in a short minute.

On the original topic, now that I realize what it is, I earned a 1-Y classification for having a blind eye. I still have it.

Hear, Hear, Coltrane1.

I'm glad you brought that point to our attention. Our military budget is probably 4 times as large as it has to be to keep us safe. It's really just a way to justify channeling tax dollars into the hands of favored corporations year after year.

If 75% of our defense budget went against our national debt we would get out of trouble very quickly. Very little of the funding goes to feet on the ground. Most goes toward building unnecessary aircraft that will be parked in the desert, never having been used. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of them out there already. Still we buy more. But we don't take very good care of our veterans. We just use them for parades and photo ops.

The war spending is bankrupting our country and reducing the number of discretionary dollars that can go to audio purchases. Have you been effected yet?

And the argument about helping the disadvantaged of the world would be more credible if we weren't quite so strategic about who we choose to help with our invasions. And if we cared more about helping our own, especially the veterans.

Mrmitch - We take excellent care of our billionaire veterans. The small people are on their own.

When the Repubs were threatening to shut down our government, I read a letter to the editor from a soldier in Iraq. He said that those who were stationed over there in the war zone would have their pay postponed and asked why Congress was going to continue receiving their checks during the shutdown. I felt he made a very good point.

It's high time we all get mad. And lets get straight about who's to blame - don't fall into The Tea Party nonsense. It's the rich who are starving vets and robbing us blind.