{"id":26686,"date":"2011-09-27T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26686"},"modified":"2011-09-27T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:06:19","slug":"that-poverty-draft-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26686","title":{"rendered":"That “Poverty Draft” thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthis and Adam Kokesh, along with Iraq Veterans Against the War Executive Director Jose Vasquez, encouraged by Charlie Rangel and his push for a draft, are all fond of calling the all-volunteer military fighting our wars in the Middle East a “poverty draft” military, meaning that we recruit from the nation’s ghettos for the cannon fodder we send to war. Ann Marlowe, in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> writes about a Heritage Foundation study which lays that canard to rest;<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Heritage report showed that “low-income families are underrepresented in the military and high-income families are overrepresented. Individuals from the bottom household income quintile make up 20.0 percent of Americans who are age 18-24 years old but only 10.6 percent of the 2006 recruits and 10.7 percent of the 2007 recruits. Individuals in the top two quintiles make up 40.0 percent of the population, but 49.3 percent of the recruits in both years.”<\/p>\n

What about the charge that our Army is disproportionately black? This too is false, as is clear from data for fiscal 2010 available on the Army’s website: Whereas blacks comprise 17% of Americans ages 18-39 with high school degrees, they represent only a slightly larger proportion of enlisted soldiers, at 21%. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we all knew that, didn’t we? <\/p>\n

Marlowe concludes;<\/p>\n

The myth of the ghetto Army is as nastily racist as it is false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should read the whole opinion piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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