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W E D N E S D A Y , M A R C H 2 3 , 2 0 0 5Worried Social Security Won't Be There ForYou? Join The National Guard!by Michael in New York on
3/23/2005 02:58:00 PMThanks to the backdoor draft, the abuse of the National Guard(45% of the troops in Iraq are reserves) and a million otherreasons (Bush's lack of respect for the troops by refusing to goto a single military funeral, etc.) recruiting is a disaster for ourmilitary.The latest Band Aid solution? Raise the age the Army Reserveand National Guard can recruit soldiers 5 years from 34 to 39.The age for the regular Army is 34 and set by Congress andcan't be changed without its approval. This means another 22million poor people can be targeted by recruiters to join up. Myfavorite quote in an earlier version of this New York Timesarticle said that fighting war was a middle-aged person's jobnow -- there just isn't that much hand-to-hand combatanymore.Think of it as a jobs program being extended to moreAmericans. And maybe if they keep raising the age you canjoin up when your Social Security checks disappear after being"privatized."This is sad if it weren't so funny and another example of howBush is abusing the military and the National Guard andReserves in particular in ways that are going to make it harderand harder to defend America for decades to come.
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3/23/2005 02:58:00 PMThanks to the backdoor draft, the abuse of the National Guard(45% of the troops in Iraq are reserves) and a million otherreasons (Bush's lack of respect for the troops by refusing to goto a single military funeral, etc.) recruiting is a disaster for ourmilitary.The latest Band Aid solution? Raise the age the Army Reserveand National Guard can recruit soldiers 5 years from 34 to 39.The age for the regular Army is 34 and set by Congress andcan't be changed without its approval. This means another 22million poor people can be targeted by recruiters to join up. Myfavorite quote in an earlier version of this New York Timesarticle said that fighting war was a middle-aged person's jobnow -- there just isn't that much hand-to-hand combatanymore.Think of it as a jobs program being extended to moreAmericans. And maybe if they keep raising the age you canjoin up when your Social Security checks disappear after being"privatized."This is sad if it weren't so funny and another example of howBush is abusing the military and the National Guard andReserves in particular in ways that are going to make it harderand harder to defend America for decades to come.
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