The Bush Administration wants to raise the payments made to members of the armed forces who die in combat from the current 12,000 to 250,000. Now let us pretend for a moment that 250,000 is an exorbitant amount of money (it would cost nearly 500 million dollars a year in increased payments). If we give this amount to the soldiers who die, then for every single innocent civilian we kill, we need to pay 10 times this much, on a nationalized adjusted scale (for example, an amount equivalent to the buying power of 2,500,000 us dollars in Iraqi money). The reason for this you ask? Because when you join the armed forces, you accept you might die. That is why we pay you so much money to go fight in the war, because without the money people wouldn't want to do it because they might die. That is the risk you take. Innocent civilians, on the other hand, aren't supposed to die, and having an incentive to NOT kill innocent people would be helpful.
Now, I did think about it, and I at first thought, well increased money to the dead would make the president less zealous in his dangerous escapades. But no, it doesn't, because it doesn't come out of his pocket. I recommend that the money comes out of the pockets of the congressmen and the president.. then they might think twice before they go kill our soldiers in a pointless war. And come on, its not like Bush can't afford a few million dollars.
