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Our military recruiting the nations economically vulnerable. (Original Post)
Duncanpup
Thursday
OP
Always has. And during the draft, it was always the poorest who ended up.in Nam.
sinkingfeeling
Thursday
#1
so what else is new? this has been done by every nation since the dawn of time. nt
Javaman
Thursday
#3
The image of a daughter in a relationship with someone who doesn't provide....
70sEraVet
Thursday
#6
sinkingfeeling
(56,438 posts)1. Always has. And during the draft, it was always the poorest who ended up.in Nam.
Heidi
(58,835 posts)2. Conscription by poverty. (nt)
Javaman
(64,543 posts)3. so what else is new? this has been done by every nation since the dawn of time. nt
Stargazer99
(3,321 posts)4. Maybe it is time to quit kissing the wealthy's *ss
OldBaldy1701E
(9,132 posts)5. I wish that were the case.
Unfortunately, the programming worked, so we won't stop.
Javaman
(64,543 posts)9. As long as poverty is continually perpetuated by the rich
It will always be the case
70sEraVet
(4,931 posts)6. The image of a daughter in a relationship with someone who doesn't provide....
food, shelter, healthcare -- basic needs -- is eye-opening.
Norrrm
(3,044 posts)7. Poor kids took all the enlistments?
He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/05/what_did_you_do_in_the_war_hammer.html
Heidi
(58,835 posts)8. Kick, kick, kick!
