What is it about leftists? They don't seem to have the DNA for shame at all. Here's Charlie Rangel in black & white, in print, in the New York Daily News, with an outright and easily checked lie about the Armed Forces:The great majority of people bearing arms for this country in Iraq are from the poorer communities in our inner cities and rural areas, places where enlistment bonuses are up to $40,000 and thousands in educational benefits are very attractive. For people who have college as an option, those incentives - at the risk to one's life - don't mean a thing.As an elected Representative, he should know better. The facts are easily verified. Military recruits are better educated than the general youth population; they have higher average aptitudes; and they are not drawn from "the poorer communities in our inner cities and rural areas" -- they are solidly middle class:
In summary, the additional years of recruit data (2004–2005) support the previous finding that U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight differences are that wartime U.S. military enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers.
Recruits have a higher percentage of high school graduates and representation from Southern and rural areas. No evidence indicates exploitation of racial minorities (either by race or by race-weighted ZIP code areas). Finally, the distribution of household income of recruits is noticeably higher than that of the entire youth population.
Here's how to tell that Charlie Rangel is lying: his mouth is open, and speech is coming out.
On this Thanksgiving Day, let us pause to be thankful that our Nation's call for military volunteers is still being answered by the best, the brightest, and the bravest young men and women in the entire world. (Read more at Betsy's and Gateway.)
i think also that congressman (including senators) have MORE children in the armed forces than the population at large.
ReplyDeleteso rangel's argument is completely fallacious.
Gosh dang, Charlie Rangel voted against his own darn draft bill in October 2004 (H.R. 163). It was defeated 402-2. Of course, Murtha and some other dude voted for it. Mr. Peace, Murtha.
ReplyDeleteNow he wants to resurrect the bill he himself voted against. He said that he didn't want his bill to be voted on, he was just instigating discussion by introducing it. Same as with that 1998 authorization to go to war against Iraq. Democrats made it law, but they didn't think it would actually be invoked. Duh.
What exactly are these people about, anyway? The only clear speaker on their side appears to be Kucinich. I may disagree with the man, but at least you know what he's about and where he stands. But for the rest, the only thing I can trust a Democrat to do is deceive me.