The premise here is one of the foundations of the Republican Party, that all our problems stem from lazy poor people who don’t pay their fair share. When it is pointed out to Republicans that those lazy poor people they despise so much are children, the retired and minorities they could care less, it is the nature of the Beast.
What is not funny about this is that it is how we do things now. It is nothing new. We send those at the bottom of the economic ladder to war to fight and die for us. And they go because Walmart has a long waiting list to work for minimum wages with no health insurance.
Both the W. Bush wars have been fought mostly by poor rural white boys who joined the National Guard to get a little extra income so they could buy a trailer and get married. WHILE Republicans reduced taxes on the wealthy. And when they got home from Hell in the Sand? They are forced to go back again for tour after tour or go to Republican run jails.
And the kicker? These kids dying in the dirt for… for… Gee I don’t even know… An invasion of guys living in caves ten thousand miles away. These TROOPS vote almost 2 to 1 straight Republican tickets AS the wealthy Republicans who sent them to die laugh at them. My sympathy thins.
I was drafted to find that about the only people in the military at the time who had IQs above room temperature were also drafted.
Initially it was quite an experience for a boy from Wisconsin who had never before met a Southern Cracker. A real ego booster let me tell you! Even though I got out of high school with a C average and had flunked out of college my first year, my drill Sargent in basic training nick named me "Einstein" and my Company Commander recommended me for the Officer Corp. And believe me, I was an idiot!