Nothing in my post contradicts what you have said, or results in "zero." My issue, exclusively, is with whom came up with the idea and how it would be implemented. Barney Frank has been running around for a while now suggesting that our spending on the military is the reason for the S&P Downgrade. Now he is making suggestion, which I am admitting to having a hard time finding text of as the OP did not include a link, that we "use" the military to rebuild infrastructure. Granted I do not have the context of the comment to reference but that sounds more like "you will do" instruction over "can do" spirit. In my post, you suggested you were going to respond to, I said I have zero issue with those coming out of the military wanting thus getting a desired help to transition into the workforce. If some want to go into planing to engineering to construction of infrastructure projects, be my guest. Again, my issue is help for the "can to" spirit becoming "you will do" from the one guy on the hill suggesting our military spending is responsible for our downgrade. He being right or wrong on that, well that is another topic. The point is, my concern is reasonable given whom we are talking about given his political interests I am not so sure are based on your commented "can do" spirit.