Because, most of the people I hear talking **** about America are the ones in the Me, me, me category, and have done nothing for this country.
They rely on others sacrifices like Docs, mine, my nephew and the thousands of other true patriots to save it for them and enable their happy-go-lucky lifestyles.
I ask the question to see which side of the fence you stand on.

The watching side or the sacrificing side.

no it will not be free, you need to read the fine print or listen to the whispered disclaimers. you will be forced to buy into the insurance scheme, failure to do so would mean garnishment

Aye, Aye

Trial by jury!!

military pensions

Thats not SS. Thats taking care of the boy's.

Its a given if you want to survive as a Nation.

They earned it...........

What have you done for your country?

Confusion runs deep up north aye?

Civil War Pensions: America's First "Social Security" Program

Although Social Security did not really arrive in America until 1935, there was one important precursor, that offered something we could recognize as a social security program, to one special segment of the American population. Following the Civil War, there were hundreds of thousands of widows and orphans, and hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans. In fact, immediately following the Civil War a much higher proportion of the population was disabled or survivors of deceased breadwinners than at any time in America's history. This led to the development of a generous pension program, with interesting similarities to later developments in Social Security. (The first national pension program for soldiers was actually passed in early 1776, prior even to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Throughout America's ante-bellum period pensions of limited types were paid to veterans of America's various wars. But it was with the creation of Civil War pensions that a full-fledged pension system developed in America for the first time.)

The Civil War Pension program began shortly after the start of the War, with the first legislation in 1862 providing for benefits linked to disabilities "incurred as a direct consequence of . . .military duty." Widows and orphans could receive pensions equal in amount to that which would have been payable to their deceased solider if he had been disabled. In 1890 the link with service-connected disability was broken, and any disabled Civil War veteran qualified for benefits. In 1906, old-age was made a sufficient qualification for benefits. So that by 1910, Civil War veterans and their survivors enjoyed a program of disability, survivors and old-age benefits similar in some ways to the later Social Security programs. By 1910, over 90% of the remaining Civil War veterans were receiving benefits under this program, although they constituted barely .6% of the total U.S. population of that era. Civil War pensions were also an asset that attracted young wives to elderly veterans whose pensions they could inherit as the widow of a war veteran. Indeed, there were still surviving widows of Civil War veterans receiving Civil War pensions as late as 1999!

In the aggregate, military pensions were an important source of economic security in the early years of the nation. In 1893, for example, the $165 million spent on military pensions was the largest single expenditure ever made by the federal government. In 1894 military pensions accounted for 37% of the entire federal budget

So you're saying the bank has no responsibility for the incompetence of their employees or their banking practices.

If this guy had any sense he'd ask for a trial by jury!

The Social Security Act...for one.

you dont need to call me names son...

I very much disagree. The person in question tried to tell the bank there was a mistake. He should not be charged with a crime, and he should not be made to pay it back. The only mistake I can see he made was NOT getting it in writing that the money was his. The bank should absorb the cost of the mistake to pay back the shorted account. It was the bank’s mistake after all.

I get paid for my articles, not freebies. On here I share what I read. Information is about the same either way anyway.

you are starting to make me angry... Madisonman...until you travel to iraq or afganistan and in and live among them you have little right to talk. Maybe you should try actually doing something with yourself instead of blindly criticizing those who fight for you. I hope one day you live a life as someone in one of these third world countries. You may actually learn something about life then.

Write articles on it, speak out publically on it too, so what does that mean?

If you would like we can. I have plenty of material for this discussion.

These little quibbles are nothing compared to what I have experienced on unmoderated sites

the dam thing was illegally started and is still illegal and is just plain wrong.

I WILL NOT!!!! Who the hell are you to tell me anything???? I have my opinion and it is as valid as any other human beings opinion on this whole big ole planet. If it bothers you do not read my opinion then...