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Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor by tsotha on Sunday October 25, 2015 @10:24PM (#10449323)
>A bit tangential, but I'd also argue that the military as recourse is, itself, an unfair burden on poor people.

Not borne out by the statistics. The average recruit comes from a family that's better educated and wealthier than the average American. The real problem with poor people using the military to lift themselves out of poverty is so many of them can't enlist as a consequence of obesity or a criminal record.

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Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor by lostcolony on Monday October 26, 2015 @08:30AM (#10450914)
'Rich kids don't feel compelled to enlist just to make financial ends meet.'

Statistics only tell you the demographics of enlisting, not -why- they're enlisting. Plenty of people enlist because of reasons other than "I have no other options available to me". My point was that "I have no other options available to me" is only ever true for poor people.

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Re:The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor by tsotha on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:07PM (#10454832)
>My point was that "I have no other options available to me" is only ever true for poor people.

And my point was if you have no other options the military probably won't take you either.

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