[silverquiet]

Interestingly, if you said that “The Federal Government” should build and run small nuclear reactors, I bet you’d get a lot of pushback; I’m always fascinated by how “the military” is culturally considered very different from “the government” in the US. The military is perceived as able to do most anything while the government is considered lazy and wasteful.

[tonyarkles]

I’m Canadian and don’t know all of the inner workings of the US Military, but an observation from the outside is that it seems that the US Military oddly captures a lot of the more left-leaning ideals:

- Health care provided by the VA

- Education, both before the job (officer school or trades training) and for post-military life (GI Bill)

- Decent pension after retiring

Etc

[silverquiet]

Oh, it's all incredibly ironic; I think that's most of my point.