Chuck Says:
>the great white blob of
>the middle class haven't begun to pay for installing GW in power...
>And as for Germany, they sure as hell haven't tried Nazism lately have
>they? They took the cure. So suck it up, dude. Now it's our turn.
The Germans didn't take the cure, it was the Gypsys, homosexuals, Jews, Catholics, Socialists, mentally retarded...well, just about everyone else that took the cure...and Germany ended the century with the largest economy in Europe...Oh how they suffered...
And it isn't going to be mainly the 'great white blob of the middle class' that is going to feel (feeling) the hurt from Bush's policy, it is immigrants, what is left of the working class, ethnic minorities, single mothers, West Asia and global instability from Bush's cadre of apocolyptic disciples attempting to immanentize the Eschaton.
And it isn't the white middle class (and definitely not the upper class) that are paying their equal share in the form of combat casualties in Bush's little extra-curricular excursion over there in Babylon:
"The proportion of new recruits who were high school graduates dropped to 91 percent in fiscal 2000 from a peak of 98 percent in 1992, according to the Pentagon's latest personnel study. That means a force that's less skilled and harder to train and a military skewed to lower-income groups with fewer career choices. [...] A 1999 Pentagon study found that while the military drew most of its recruits from the middle and lower-middle class, "the socioeconomic status of recruits is slightly lower than the general population." A study last year found that only 6.5 percent of enlistees had some college education, as opposed to 46 percent of civilians the same age. Whites make up 62 percent of all armed services and 65 percent of the population. Blacks make up 20 percent of the armed services, compared with 14 percent of the population. Hispanics are 11 percent of the military and 15 percent of the population. Asians, Pacific Islanders and others make up the rest." (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/6474788.htm)
And more about minorities in uniform: http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/almanac/people/minorities.html
Bryan