Military service - another implied social contract trashed

i've maintained all along that bushco is bound and determined to destroy any and all elements of the social contract that has been the foundation of life in this country for going on 100 years... working hard and being a good citizen no longer means a thing... if you're poor, it's because your no damn good... indentured servitude is the order of the day... and the worst of all are those crappy jobs where you might just lose your life... once again, krugman's vision is piercing...

[T]he Bush administration, which was ready neither to look for a way out of Iraq nor to admit that staying there would require a much bigger army, simply threw out the rulebook. Regular soldiers are spending a lot more than a third of their time overseas, and many reservists are finding their civilian lives destroyed by repeated, long-term call-ups.

and here's where the social contract (please pardon the unfortunate but perhaps appropriate pun) is d.o.a...

From their foot-dragging on armoring Humvees to their apparent policy of denying long-term disability payments to as many of the wounded as possible, officials seem almost pathologically determined to nickel-and-dime those who put their lives on the line for their country.

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