stop pretending that goons that volunteered to destroy mine and many others entire country to better their own material conditions would make good comrades.
stop pretending that goons that volunteered to destroy mine and many others entire country to better their own material conditions would make good comrades.
This article in question is 6 years old. Also, it seems that some of the links are broken. :sadness-abysmal:
Very few of the enlisted people that I was in the military with would have been considered "middle class."
The first foot note listed:
https://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/360142B8859DD8EDA9D80F008077F3B5.gif
Results in a 404 page.
Also, its the right wing Heritage Foundation... so... I'm having a hard time thinking that source is going to be reliable. Anyways, I think I found the article from the Heritage foundation website that the anti-imperalist.org site was trying to link to.
From the Heritage article.
That's an amazing bit of twistedness.
So from what I can understand from this paragraph, they took as "eveil imperalist babie kllr" zip code at the time of enlistment. Then found the average incomes from those zip codes. Then found the average lowest income zip codes nationally. Then compared the zip codes. So, if I was a poor kid living in a zip code where the average income was higher than what my family made, I would be added to the pile of zip codes in a "higher" income group.
From the Legionairs article:
This misrepresents the Heritage article. The Heritage article just took a zipcode, found the average income for that zipcode, assumed that the average income for that zipcode would have been the income for an enlistee, and created the income quintile breakdowns that way. I literally just spent two hours digging up potatoes, I should not be smarter than an internet anti-imperalist leftist in understanding a source.
The Boise article link was broken, found a working link.
They do, in fact, outline their criticism of the Heritage Foundation article. There is another study from some place called the National Priorities Project that used a similar method of using zip codes but came to the conclusion opposite of the Heritage Foundation. Specifically:
So what this means, is that not only did the Heritage Foundation do the thing of using average income per zip code and assuming that as an enlistee's income, they then removed all income from their average that wasn't from an 18~24 year old person. Now I don't know about you, but my parent's were far older than 18~24 years old when I was 18 and enlisting. It seems like we'd want to know about where an enlistee came from, so their parent's income would be the target to look for when trying to make an estimation of the wealth level/income group an enlistee should be assigned to. Which feels odd, cause I would imagine that parents would make more money than their kids, and I'm going to show my ass and assume that more enlistee's are barely adults. Seems to me this would have helped the Heritage Foundation's case.
Not pleased that the Boise article doesn't give a name for the National Priorities Project data/research that the article is talking about. But here's the NPP website..
The "uneducated" claims are weird, but probably have to do with secondary education or vocational training, than high school grads. Though, if you have high enough ASVAB scores, I have no reason to believe that recruiters will pretty much hand hold you through a GED program to get their recruitment quota.
From the Legion's article:
Sure buddy. College is free in the USA, buddy. Quitting college means you don't have to pay back your bills, buddy. ( I actually knew a guy who took out college loans, realized that he didn't want to go to college, panicked, and that led him to a recruiters office.)
So, the author of the Legionaires article is saying that, yes, if you don't want to live in poverty you join the military. I ... I don't think that was the own, they intended that to be.
The Legionaires article linked to this RT article. Some quotes below.
So basically when the economy is good enough that people can find stable employment, the are less likely to join the military. When jobs are hard to come by, they enlist.
So far, the first section of that Legionaires piece should have just been deleted. The rest so far is pretty okay.
HAHAHA... the article was written by Amber. :amber-snacking:
Amber.
Found it, looks same as your other link: http://web.archive.org/web/20141010164109/https://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/360142B8859DD8EDA9D80F008077F3B5.gif
Noice!