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Originally Posted by Litos
I'm not discrediting the Pentagon - Heritage Group used THEIR DATA.
you must have been allergic to this sentence......
Our review of Pentagon enlistee data shows that the only group that is lowering its participation in the military is the poor. The percentage of recruits from the poorest American neighborhoods (with one-fifth of the U.S. population) declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 14.6 percent in 2003, 14.1 percent in 2004, and 13.7 percent in 2005.
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Okay, the poorest dirt poor segment decreased, yet...
- Half of recruits still come from "poor" households
- 2/3 come from counties where the median income is
below the national median income.
Are you really going to spin that to mean something else than the bulk of armed forces recruits are poor kids from poor areas? The Pentagon data is pretty cut and dry.