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To: RealMuLan who wrote (48659)	4/17/2004 11:11:35 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Basically, unless they are exceptionally smart and lucky and can get scholarship from universities, the only way for most young people who live in small town in the US to get out the poverty is to join the army, sadly. Very astute observation, Yiwu. People in rural areas of the U.S are so impoverished that they are reduced to eating road kill and waste grain from the fields. You can travel all the way from Fargo to Butte and hardly find a single person making over $10K a year. Most cannot get a government permit to work in the cities, and they can't tele-commute because of the government stranglehold on the Internet. It's sad.

To: RealMuLan who wrote (48659)	4/17/2004 11:46:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<This morning on NPR, they reported a small town with only 288 population, already has had two soldiers dead, one is in Afghan, and the other is in Iraq. 2 out of 288, a disproportionally high rate of dead US soldiers. Basically, unless they are exceptionally smart and lucky and can get scholarship from universities, the only way for most young people who live in small town in the US to get out the poverty is to join the army, sadly.> Yiwu, you are obviously innumerate with CobaltBlue disease. There are 280 million Americans [give or take a few]. About 140 million are male. About a third of them are of military employment age [20 to 60]. That's something like 50 million. There are about 400,000 in the military. Okay, maybe it's 500,000 to make the numbers easier. That's 1%. 1% means one in one hundred. That's not many of the males in the USA. The other 49,500,000 are NOT in the military. Since the USA is definitely not big on poverty, there are obviously a LOT more ways out of poverty, even for small town USA males, than joining the military. Also 2:288 in one town doesn't show a disproportionately high rate of death. That's not statistically significant. They were perhaps friends, or brothers, or something, who joined together. Even aside from skewing due to some relationship like that, having one person killed from one town, then having another suffer the same fate, isn't exactly out of the ordinary as statistical flukes go. Every day, somebody wins a lottery. Somebody has to win. That's just how things work in the world of statistics. Even allowing you some literary licence, you are stretching things to absurdity in your continuing efforts to denigrate the USA. Mqurice