Our military recruiting the nations economically vulnerable.

[Duncanpup]

Link to tweet

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Always has. And during the draft, it was always the poorest who ended up.in Nam.

[Heidi]

2. Conscription by poverty. (nt)

[Javaman]

3. so what else is new? this has been done by every nation since the dawn of time. nt

[Stargazer99]

4. Maybe it is time to quit kissing the wealthy's *ss

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. I wish that were the case.

Unfortunately, the programming worked, so we won't stop.

[Javaman]

9. As long as poverty is continually perpetuated by the rich

It will always be the case

[70sEraVet]

6. The image of a daughter in a relationship with someone who doesn't provide....

food, shelter, healthcare -- basic needs -- is eye-opening.

[Norrrm]

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]

8. Kick, kick, kick!