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New bribes incentives…

Under a new proposal, men and women who enlist could pick from a “buffet” of incentives, including up to $45,000 tax-free that they accrue during their career to help buy a home or build a business. Other options would include money for college and to pay off student loans.

An Associated Press review of the increasingly aggressive recruiting offerings found the Army is not only dangling more sign-up rewards — it’s loosening rules on age and weight limits, education and drug and criminal records.

Good news for old, fat, ignorant, addicted crooks, I guess (any resemblance to mutant branches of government purely coincidental. Besides, he has other priorities).

Why not an honest package of real education benefits for all enlistees, the traditional GI home loan and better access to medical services after discharge? One package of benefits for all enlistments, not different benefits for different troopers, depending on their bargaining ability in the mercenary marketplace.

I wonder how much of Jim Webb's veteran's education proposal could be funded with the Pentagon bribery budget.

I hate what they're doing to my Army.