Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Berkeley
Money talks? Berkeley was once again in the news for threatening to boot out the military, specifically Marine, recruiters. While I disagree with that, I do support Berkeley's right to do so. And they can kick them out of their city if they decided to do that. However, it seems they've changed their mind about that. Now they have decided that the military recruiters aren't such a bad bunch of guys afterall.
I wonder why they changed their mind? Do you suppose it was because the government threatened to recall more than $2 million in federal funds as well as federal monies for the University of California-Berkeley? And that is action I also support. If you don't want to support your country's endevours in some places, don't expect your country to support yours. It's the same all over. Everything you do has repercusions. If you vote to cut back on city taxes, don't gripe about losing police and firefighters and bus service. If you buy a 300 horsepower 4X4 pickup truck to drive back and forth to 7/11 don't gripe when gas is $3.10 a gallon. And if you don't want some government services, don't gripe when all government services are gone.
Labels: freedom, government, gripes, military
