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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE MILITARY IS FULL OF THE POOR AND THE DOWNTRODDEN, RIGHT?

However, as was once famously said - it’s not what we don’t know, so much as what we know that isn’t so, that hurts us.  Now, the HERITAGE FOUNDATION provides the data for us.  Have you read about this, yet?

Reported by the WASHINGTON TIMES, the key paragraph reads

Contrary to complaints from some liberal lawmakers and pundits, the data show that the poor are not shouldering the bulk of the military’s need for new soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines.
  The poorest neighborhoods provided 18 percent of recruits in prewar 1999 and 14.6 percent in 2003. By contrast, areas where household incomes ranged from $30,000 to $200,000 provided more than 85 percent.

“We found that recruits tend to come from middle-class areas, with disproportionately fewer from low-income areas,” said the report, prepared by Tim Kane, an Air Force Academy graduate and economics scholar. “Overall, the income distribution of military enlistees is more similar to than different from the income distribution of the general population.”

Posted by Earl on 01/04 at 09:51 PM
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PRIDE and PREJUDICE BETRAYED

At least, so says JAMES BOWMAN in his regular column for THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR

In his REVIEW OF THE MOVIE, he says we get

a badly unbalanced if visually impressive film that ends up being a vulgarization of Miss Austen’s novel.

Continue reading

Posted by Earl on 01/04 at 07:57 PM
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