Reply #3: The Pell Grant thing is kind of the strategy they are using, I think.

[mattclearing]

The same way Bush raises the cost of living without raising taxes by allowing price gouging like Enron and letting other corporations run wild, Bush will continue finding ways to get people into the military without actually instating a draft.

"Where'd my Pell grant go? Uncle Sam will foot the bill if I go to Iraq?"

You can see people mulling it over...life of flipping burgers vs. dodging bullets, possible death.

"It couldn't happen to me, could it?"