As veterans are honored on OS and elsewhere by the grateful, as Georgette Mosbacher, a supremely successful capitalist, marches to persuade fellow capitalists to employ veterans, we have two counterpoints--Obama intoning on about whatever and mobs of snot-nosed malcontents kvetching about the fact that they have less than others.
It takes a wonderful occasion like today, bringing out the best in the best, to highlight in bold relief just how pathetically parasitic some beneficiaries of veteran sacrifices can be.

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We should be happy we live in a country that has rights such as ours, that has a Bill of Rights and a Constitution and the strength and power to preserve the same.
In case my post didn't make it clear, dear TG, I'm pointing out its lack of intellectual gravitas and its general uncleanliness.
The most anyone can say in favor of what you rightly call a mess is that it brings attention to the "unfairness" of a system that results in unequal distribution of goodies. The problem is that history, some of it rather recent, informs that under alternative systems, the goodies have a nasty way of disappearing.
Viewed in that light, today's protesters have the distinction of being involved in the silliest and vapid of all the often heroic protests that have preceded it.