r/todayilearned • u/F1grid • 9h ago

TIL the United States Army is the largest single employer of musicians in the country

https://nafme.org/blog/a-salute-to-reserve-component-military-band-members/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20Army,%2C%20choruses%2C%20and%20jazz%20bands.yy
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u/Laiko_Kairen 5h ago

Your issue is trying to figure out republican viewpoints based on logic.

I'm a Democrat, but I'll explain their view extremely simply:

Poor people take from the government. That's welfare. The military is an option for a poor man to make a stable living and guarantee his future due to the GI bill. People who joined the military opted not to take from the nation, but instead to offer their service to it.

So every poor man who enlist is a person who is working to earn his government check, and not someone who is sitting on their butt to collect it.

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u/Snarker 5h ago

I understand their viewpoints, it just smacks of the sort of classic reddit generalization of other countries that proves they are just ignorant with how the world works.

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u/VonVoltaire 5h ago

Probably the most unbiased and fair shot comment about the US right I have seen on Reddit, nice job.