Spectacular

The possibility of a new G.I. Bill was interesting enough before Bush and McCain voiced their opposition to it.  Their reasoning?: It would incentivize leaving the military.  But wait, wouldn't it also incentivize joining the military too?  More disturbingly, the logical conclusion of this argument is that Bush and McCain essentially want the US to maintain an uneducated "underclass" of citizens who are willing do the nation's dirty work, only because they lack the education and skills to switch fields.  Bush and McCain seem to believe that we shouldn't let them advance too far, because otherwise they might realize that being and educated civilian tends to be an easier and more pleasant life than the military.  The military should not be designed as a socioeconomic trap, but a means of socioeconomic mobility.  It nothing else, members of the military deserve it given the incredible risk to which they voluntarily subject themselves.