In 2005, 43,443 people were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes, 2,699,000 people were injured. That's only one year and that's after a large reduction in the number per year and it's only in the United States. If you are so concerned about human life why don't you work to reduce those deaths and injuries? I don't think military jobs are more dangerous than some civillian jobs. I respect the motive behind the job, not just its danger level. Jobs that protect others by risking your own are at the top of my list, then jobs that save lives, then service industry jobs, then at the bottom there are mining engineers;) Just joking, mining engineers aren't on my list of jobs I respect. Probably because I never gave it much thought before. It is definately an under appreciated field. I don't think that you are going to win the respect you feel you deserve by putting down those that you feel earn more respect undeservingly.

I understand your ire. You dug some pretty nice holes that helped our economy and here are all these people you consider killers getting the free beer and slaps on the back. Pretty unfair if you don't pay attention to the fact that I had to do without beer or sex for a year. I couldn't even watch videos or read magazines that depicted sex.

If you can go the next year without drinking alcohol or having sex or looking at porn, I will vote for the democrat of your choice in the next presidential election. I don't have to worry about it though, because even though you will have all the other comforts of civilized living that I didn't have, you don't have what it takes to give those three items up for a year.