A Transformed America?

Liberals love to claim that we live in a country that is just so unfair. The "rich" need to pay their "fair share." Of course, the Liberal rich already pay their fair share, minus the amount they shield in trusts and Cayman Island bank accounts, it's just the Conservative rich that need to pony up. Alternately, the Liberal uber-rich shouldn't have to pay any more taxes, because they believe in the correct things, and therefor have purchased themselves indulgences due to their "enlightened" Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Marxist/Progressive/Totalitarian/
Fascist belief system. Fairness for thee but not for me...I'm important. All animals are created equal, but some animals are created more equal than others...If only those stupid rednecks would recognize the greatness of their betters; they need to prostrate themselves on the altar of the Left's superiority. Now now now little people, please accept the fact, that we are your rulers. We know what is better for you that you, you stupid, uneducated, working class, scum...and we are going to do everything in our place to put you in your place and keep you there. How dare you challenge our over-educated, sanctimonious, elitist snobbery. Darwin rules. We have evolved into a higher level of man. Now let me go check up on Manuel, illegal from El Salvador, who is detailing my Prius, and Contessa, illegal from Mexico, who is doing my laundry, wiping my children's behinds, and preparing the family's dinner, while I'm at my Yoga class. Yes, it's all about "fairness." We can't have a system like ours, which has the wealthiest lower middle class and the wealthiest poor people in the world. We need to be just like Europe: In another words, the middle class in the United States is too large, too prosperous, and needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Do you really want a "fair" system? How about this: Liberals, would you embrace a system where everyone's basic needs are provided; there is equal pay for "comparable work;" everyone lives, works, and plays in a planned New Urbanism style community; that planned community has its own transportation system, providing free public transportation for its residents. You don't need a car, but you are allowed to have one. You  can have two if you are married.  Alternately, you can walk to work or ride a bicycle?

Your provided housing is based on "need." You get free medical and dental care. Same for your family. Your salary and/or job is based on your education level, skills, but also on senority.  Having a Bachelors degree, and/or a Masters degree is a requirement for being a member of the ruling class. Having an Associates degree is requirement for the upper reaches of the lower managerial class.  Liberals, what you are embracing is a mirror image of the social structure of the United States Military, particularly the social structure of the United States Air Force. I use the Air Force as an example, because that is the branch of the military that I am most familiar with. Full disclosure: I spent 26 years in the United States Air Force, retiring with the rank of Senior Master Sergeant (E-8).

Hey Liberals, let's be honest. You are totally in favor of a system of government in which rank has its privileges in all aspects of life. Despite your contempt for the military, what you advocate is a society modeled  on the US Military. Just think, your education makes you part of the Officer Corps, and for the most part, those with the least amount of education, end up as Enlisted personnel doing the worst jobs. And of course, there is everything in between. Gee, it sounds just like Utopia. Where are the unicorns? Talk about diversity and everyone being on the same team, you have those with Doctorate degrees and those who barely finished high school all working together for a common cause, no matter what job they do...and everyone knows their place. If you are a junior enlisted person, try buying a beer at the bar in the Officers Club and see what happens. Hey hippies, here is your ultimate caste system.

I'm going to use the Air Force as my example. That is because having spent 26 years in the Air Force, I know the Air Force system better than I know the systems of the other sister services. Let's take a look at an Air Force base and the employment structure of the members of the United States Air Force: An Air Force base, whether stateside or overseas, is a self-contained New Urbanism style planned community. There are areas where you work, areas where you live, and areas where you shop or recreate. You go to work in a shop or office. You live in government provided housing, ranging from junior enlisted barracks to family housing units, and mini-mansions with a staff provided to flag rank officers,  unless you are allowed to reside off-base, for the government's convenience. If you do, you receive a housing allowance as part of your compensation package. That housing allowance is not considered income for tax purposes. In another words, it's another form of welfare.  Those in "essential personnel" jobs, like Base Commanders, are required to live on-base, because they are required to be available for duty, and on call,  24 hours per day. Not only does rank have its privileges, rank has its responsibilities.

Military personnel receive free government provided medical and dental care, which in my opinion, is the finest in the world. I have never had a bad military doctor, surgeon, or dentist. The last time I had surgery, the hospital staff at Malcom Grow Air Force Medical Center made me feel like I was the only patient in the hospital. You have access to government provided legal and spiritual counseling for free. Your salary is based on rank, which is based on education level and assessed skills,  acquired through a rigorous apprenticeship program; you have to attain a certain skill level in order to advance to a certain rank. For the enlisted ranks, you have to pass very tough skill level tests, in order to be eligible for advancement in rank. You have a 3 Level, which advances you from trainee to apprentice, a 5 Level which makes you a journeyman/technician, a 7 Level, which makes you a master technician, and a 9 Level, which moves you into non-executive management and/or an especially high level technician, depending on the job. Also, you must attend, and pass successfully, various professional military education courses, ranging from leadership schools for junior enlisted, to the various war colleges for senior officers, where they earn Masters and Doctorate degrees, and everything in between.

At one time the Air Force had, and the other branches of the services still have, warrant officers.  Traditionally, these were people with highly specialized skills, and were afforded the perks of the Officer Corps, without the executive managerial responsibilities.

The Officer Corps encompasses all Commissioned Officers from the rank of O-1 up to, and including the Commander In Chief, who is the President Of The United States. Below that, you have the Secretary Of Defense, Chief Of Staff, Major Command Commander, Numbered Air Force Commander, Wing Commander, Group Commander, Squadron Commander, Flight Commander, Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge, Squad Leader...the last two being enlisted positions. History lesson: the Vice President is not part of the Chain Of Command. The primary job of the Vice President is President Of The United States Senate. The Vice President becomes President when either the President dies in office, is removed from office by impeachment, or resigns.

Now, let's create a couple of scenarios based on the military system, which after all hippies, is what your idea of "fairness" is all about. Actually it's not. It allows too many qualified people to move to the head of the pack, without the necessary connections that you  cretins rely on, so you can be lazy, yet advance though life without doing much of the real work that the little people need to do, in order just to survive. Many of your arrogant whiners would end up nowhere near the top of the heap. You just aren't good enough, or you just don't have enough ambition. Plus, if you have a "problem with authority," you could end up counting icebergs in Thule, Greenland for a few years.

OK hippies, you want to transform America into something more fare? Let's do it. Let's transform America. Let's transform America into the mirror image of the United States Air Force. All salaries, military, civilian, private sector, will be the same as the salaries of the military. Look how much money they government would save. They would now be able to manufacture their own $600 toilet seats for next to nothing, because they wouldn't have to buy them. They'd just have a bunch of lower junior enlisted, barracks living, laborers make them, like the Chinese slave laborers making the IPhones that you love in the "factories" in China. Oh by the way hippies, there are only a certain number of officer billets, so your access to college is going to be severely limited. Most of you will end up as "enlisted swine" doing the dirty work. I can't wait.