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Originally Posted by Pillow Pants
Your chances of joining the military increase when you don't have the grades and/or test scores to get an academic scholarship. Why? Because the armed forces help pay for college. It's their strongest selling point. And now that the requirements to join the military have been lowered, due in part to the smart and/or rich kids knowing the consequences of joining, even you can join.
What Kerry said is far less offensive than Dubya's fear mongering about the big bad terrorists. It's unfortunate he gave the dullard something to talk about other than terra.
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This is actually not correct. The average income of the families of people joining the military over the last 5 years has increased. Poor people have other options due to low unemployment. Actually, there are quite a few middle class and even wealthy people that are buying the lies of George Bush and joining the military. 9-11 brought a ton of people into the military that would never have joined. Even poor guys like a millionaire NFL player, Pat Tillman joined.