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Living in Norfolk about 3 miles from the largest Naval base in the world, we hear this story a lot...
A few decades ago, back when there were still visible signs reading "Sailors and dogs keep off the grass," the accepted practice was to pay all military salaries in cash, using nothing but $2 bills. Even when $2 bills were still being issued, they were not all that common. Whenever the local bitching by civilians about the detriment to society the military personel caused got loud enough (usually about every 3-6 months), the commandant of the base (be it Norfolk or otherwise) would restrict all personel to the base for a week. This would cause the local civilians, buisness owners, servers, etc, to realize that whenever the camandant did this, they would generate no $2 bills, and subsequently their profits would dwindle. As a result they would all stop whinning for a while.
At what point does the greek community take this approach to convincing people we don't ruin everything. Just throw up our hands and say, "Fine, we wont help you anymore." I think it'd take about a semester for people to like us.
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