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Monday, November 27, 2006
And Charlie Rangel isn't joking
Rangel went on TV yesterday and said that John Kerry was actually right when he said that people with a future don't go into the military. He totally rejects the Heritage study that found that the average military recruit was more likely to have a high school diploma than than the average civilian and also has a higher reading level."If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career, or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq," Mr. Rangel, a Democrat representing Manhattan and Queens, said on "Fox News Sunday."Rangel rejects the Heritage Foundation study - I guess conservative think tanks aren't legitimate in his book - and plans for Congress to do their own study. Watch out for how that study is conducted.
"If there's anyone who believes these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No bright young individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment," the congressman said.
Mr. Rangel was responding to a question about a study by a conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which found that those enlisting in the military tend to be better educated than the general public and that military recruiting seems to be more successful in middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods than in poor ones.
"He's really, indirectly, insulting the troops," the study's author, Timothy Kane, told The New York Sun. "He doesn't want to admit the fact that thousands and tens of thousands of young men and women are willing to make these sacrifices. More and more troops are saying duty and honor are motivating them, not college money."
Mr. Kane, a former Air Force intelligence officer, said his study found that 97% of military enlistees were high school graduates, as compared with about 80% of Americans in general, and that the average reading level of military personnel is a full grade level higher than that of the general populace.
Mr. Kane acknowledged that in 2005 the Army, which was falling short of recruitment goals, began accepting more high school dropouts and more recruits with lower scores on intelligence tests. "It's not a huge surge," he said, noting that the increase amounted to a few percent at most.
I wonder how long before the Democratic leaders in the House tell Rangel to just keep his mouth shut. First he starts arguing for bringing back the draft and forcing almost everyone to do some sort of national service. Then he criticizes everyone in the armed services by coming right out to say that they are uneducated losers with no better alternatives and the only reason they are serving is for the scholarship or bonus money. And his solution for having so many people volunteer to accept those bonuses? Force everyone into the military even though no one in the armed services wants the days of conscription to return. Yup, he's just brilliant.
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Rangel went on TV yesterday and said that John Kerry was actually right when he said that people with a future don't go into the military. He totally rejects the Heritage study that found that the average military recruit was more likely to have a high school diploma than than the average civilian and also has a higher reading level.
I wonder how long before the Democratic leaders in the House tell Rangel to just keep his mouth shut. First he starts arguing for bringing back the draft and forcing almost everyone to do some sort of national service. Then he criticizes everyone in the armed services by coming right out to say that they are uneducated losers with no better alternatives and the only reason they are serving is for the scholarship or bonus money. And his solution for having so many people volunteer to accept those bonuses? Force everyone into the military even though no one in the armed services wants the days of conscription to return. Yup, he's just brilliant.
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Rangel went on TV yesterday and said that John Kerry was actually right when he said that people with a future don't go into the military. He totally rejects the Heritage study that found that the average military recruit was more likely to have a high school diploma than than the average civilian and also has a higher reading level.
"If a young fellow has an option of having a decent career, or joining the Army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq," Mr. Rangel, a Democrat representing Manhattan and Queens, said on "Fox News Sunday."Rangel rejects the Heritage Foundation study - I guess conservative think tanks aren't legitimate in his book - and plans for Congress to do their own study. Watch out for how that study is conducted.
"If there's anyone who believes these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No bright young individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment," the congressman said.
Mr. Rangel was responding to a question about a study by a conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which found that those enlisting in the military tend to be better educated than the general public and that military recruiting seems to be more successful in middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods than in poor ones.
"He's really, indirectly, insulting the troops," the study's author, Timothy Kane, told The New York Sun. "He doesn't want to admit the fact that thousands and tens of thousands of young men and women are willing to make these sacrifices. More and more troops are saying duty and honor are motivating them, not college money."
Mr. Kane, a former Air Force intelligence officer, said his study found that 97% of military enlistees were high school graduates, as compared with about 80% of Americans in general, and that the average reading level of military personnel is a full grade level higher than that of the general populace.
Mr. Kane acknowledged that in 2005 the Army, which was falling short of recruitment goals, began accepting more high school dropouts and more recruits with lower scores on intelligence tests. "It's not a huge surge," he said, noting that the increase amounted to a few percent at most.
I wonder how long before the Democratic leaders in the House tell Rangel to just keep his mouth shut. First he starts arguing for bringing back the draft and forcing almost everyone to do some sort of national service. Then he criticizes everyone in the armed services by coming right out to say that they are uneducated losers with no better alternatives and the only reason they are serving is for the scholarship or bonus money. And his solution for having so many people volunteer to accept those bonuses? Force everyone into the military even though no one in the armed services wants the days of conscription to return. Yup, he's just brilliant.
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