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Fault Lines - Dying Inside: Elderly in prisonenglish.aljazeera.net Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com Follow us on Tumblr: ajfaultlines.tumblr.com The US' massive prison population is getting older. Long sentences that were handed out decades ago are catching up with the American justice system. Prisons across the country are dedicating entire units just to house the elderly. During difficult economic times, the issue has hit a crisis point. Estimates are that locking up an older inmate costs three times as much as a younger one. How are prisons dealing with this issue? Who are the prisoners that are turning gray behind bars? Josh Rushing gains exclusive and unprecedented access to jails and prisons across the country to tell the story.
A former Navy truck driver running his own transport business is one of a growing number of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan making a new life as entrepreneurs.
Ed Young faced constant threat of attack on wartime roads in Iraq that left him struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.
Four years later, he is driving for his own Connecticut company with his life back in control.
He received training to run his enterprise through a program for disabled veterans at the University of Connecticut, one of many efforts emerging nationwide to help returning service members start small businesses.
More than 200,000 people are discharged from the U.S. military each year, and advocates say they often possess qualities that make good entrepreneurs: resourcefulness, a taste for risk-taking and a can-do attitude.
This story is the latest installment in a joint initiative by The Associated Press and Associated Press Media Editors taking a closer look at this latest generation of war veterans as they return to civilian life, and the effect this is having on them, their families and American society.
Related Returning Veterans Swell Ranks of US... - ABC News Articles Question by fra59e: Is there a difference between "serving your country" and "serving your government"? The Declaration of Independence, and the many thoughtful essays and books that preceded it, put forward the conviction that government is not the country, or the people, but government is created by the people to serve the people, deriving its just powers from the consenting people. Is this distinction deliberately blurred and papered over by those who want the people to be servants of the state, as they were in the old Soviet Union? The compilers of the US Constitution, led by James Madison, deliberately rejected the usual practice of foreign governments which to this day commonly assert that authority derives from God. They affirmed that We the People rule this Republic. Do many of today's politicians miss this point? Does the government properly have any rights - or just have powers, assigned to it by We the People, and revocable? If you sign up to serve in the Armed Forces, are you agreeing to serve the government? Or are you serving the country? Best answer for Is there a difference between "serving your country" and "serving your government"?:
Answer by ScooterLibby
You always serve the Country. The government is a replaceable entity and serves the citizens.
Answer by oldtimer
i served my country. and proud OF it let me make this perfectly clear [president Nixon] . i love my country, but i hate what my government is doing to it.
Answer by gandamack2
I think there is a big difference
Answer by Real Estate Para Legal
You defend the Constitution which states that you are under the orders of the Government...It is a concept the libs cant understand
Answer by aztrain23
The US president is viewed as the leader of the US government, and must take an oath of office that includes swearing to uphold and defend the US Constitution. This tells me that the government (symbolized by the president) was intended to serve the country (symbolized by the Constitution), and that changing administrations and legislatures is politically healthy, as it ref lects the constant nature of changing views of the citizenry. I work for a public university, so I suppose that technically I am an employee of the state government (and more indirectly an employee of the federal government). So without government, I wouldn't have my job. But on the flip side, taxes pay the salaries of federal and state employees (including politicians), so without me (collectively as the public, not individually), those federal and state employees (including politicians) wouldn't have their jobs. I believe that the government has powers as assigned by its employers and supervisors, namely the citizens that it serves, as outlined in the US and state constitutions. A politician is a servant of his/her constituents and country. Not the other way around. Constitutions exist for the sole purpose of detailing specific activities that the government may NOT perform at the consequence of serving the country. There has never been a document (to my knowledge) that limits the powers of the citizens in order to protect the government.
Answer by vampire13r
I would be defending my country if I were on the Mexican Border stopping illegal drug traffic I would be serving my government if I were in Iraq. Iraq could fall and America would still be on the other side of the world
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