Posted by
GunnyG© on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:12:55 AM
So you voted for the Democrats in order to teach the GOP a lesson huh? Well, here is lesson number one from Dem Dummy Charles "DRAFT EM!" Rangel. The New York Sun reported that Rangel barfed up this nugget on Fox News, Sunday, 26 Nov 06.
"If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career, or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq. If there's anyone who believes these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No bright young individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment," the congressman said.
Are liberals simply born stupid or do they really have to work at it? The outstanding report available on the Heritage site completely refutes what this babbling moron says. Here are a few pieces of it.
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We found that recruits tend to come from middle-class areas, with disproportionately fewer from low-income areas. Overall, the income distribution of military enlistees is more similar to than different from the income distribution of the general population.
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According to the 2000 Census, the national median income per household in 1999 was $41,994 in 1999 dollars. By assigning each recruit the median 1999 household income for his hometown ZIP code, we calculated that the mean 1999 income for 1999 recruits before entering the military was $41,141 (in 1999 dollars). The mean 1999 income for 2003 recruits was $42,822 (in 1999 dollars). In other words, on average, recruits in 2003 were from wealthier neighborhoods than were recruits in 1999.
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We find that, on average, recruits tend to be much more highly educated than the general public and that this education disparity increased after the war on terrorism began. Comparable detailed education data from the Census classify the education level of individuals into one of seven categories (from less than high school up to graduate/professional degree). We generated a binary variable that assigns a 1 for individuals with a high school diploma or higher and a 0 for less than a high school diploma. If one single statistic could settle this issue, it is this: 98 percent of all enlisted recruits who enter the military have an education level of high school graduate or higher, compared to the national average of 75 percent.
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We found that whites are one of the most proportionally represented groups—making up 77.4 percent of the population and 75.8 percent of all recruits—whereas other racial categories are often represented in noticeably higher and lower proportions than the general population.
Heritage's conclusion on the draft:
A military draft along the lines proposed by Representative Rangel would press thousands more Asian–Americans into service, as well as thousands of Americans who decline to be racially categorized. In contrast, a draft could deny blacks, whites, and others the freedom to enlist in the Army once their racial quotas were filled.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda05-08.cfm
The frigging stupid liberals HAVE NOT even taken control of the Congress and they are already PIZZING ME OFF! I understand that Red Nancy Pelosi is an abject moron without the common sense that God gave head lice but C'MON ALREADY! They claim to support the troops and then do everything short of sending Hitlary Clinton over to visit them...oops, they did THAT too.
The "distress" signal from SERE School is evident here. The Soldier was no doubt forced to pose with Hitlary by the brass.
Is there some rule in the Democratic Socialist manifesto that prevents liberals from doing any fact-checking before they open their oral sewers? In the area of idiots, Charles "DRAFT EM" Rangel is far and away the stupidiest liberal ever to open his yap.
Here are some replies to Draft Em Rangel courtesy of the WSJ Opinion Page.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110009311
Where did "Draft Em" Rangel spend HIS time in school?
Rangel: "I am the ORIGINAL DUMB AND DUMBER!"