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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (53018)	2/7/2006 10:49:05 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Nope, I just dont like our current cronyism and corruption in gubbment - just like the boys in 1920's probably didn't like it either - but buying gold was not how you stopped hitler and similars in many other nations from coming to power and sending the thugs out with guns eh? Who later took your marks and your gold - and your guns too Mr. Mogambo Guru. There is too much talk here of police state and eroding civil liberties and poor people about to throw themselves into the army to escape death. Don't we all see what is potentially coming? Hell the ARMY is USING that MEME as a reason to sign up Message 21985170 Join the US ARMY - because Iraq's far safer than MIAMI guardian.co.uk For Deliford the ARMY is a way out of a tough part of town. Though just 23, he and his wife have three children to care for. Jobs are scarce and funding a college degree almost impossible - until the ARMY stepped in. In return for signing up, Deliford will get free tuition and a $10,000 bonus. A major part of the recruiter's spiel in MIAMI is about the problems associated with any major US city. Crime is high in the inner city and downtown is full of empty lots, with streets prowled by the homeless. Sergeant Everett Best is brazen about crime levels when potential recruits worry about going to Iraq. 'I tell them straight up. MIAMI is the biggest war zone we've got,' he said. 'Every time you turn on the TV we see someone shot.' Bass uses simple figures. Nine people from southern Florida have died in Iraq, compared with 338 murders in the Florida region last year: 'They have a better chance in the ARMY than on the streets of MIAMI.' ARMYtimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1115623.php'>http://www.ARMYtimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1115623.php ARMY recruiters now have a wider pool to find future soldiers in. The ARMY is reaching out to a slice of America’s youth long ineligible to serve: non-high school graduates who don’t have a General Equivalency Diploma Build that empire hispanics - give us youth with no escape from the warzone ghetto but the military - we will grow the empire at ALL costs - hehe. The numbers of so-called "Category 4" recruits will double to 4%, according to reports, a response to the shortfall of 7,000 new volunteers this year. Category 4 enlistees are those who test between the 16th and 30th percentile in the ARMY's competence exams. I dont know the answers Ramsey - but I know poor people willing to go to battle and death to escape poverty is a bad trend that we should try to prevent somehow. I dont see how buying gold stops that trend? I imagine if all those suicide bombers had some happiness and hope - they wouldn't be blowing everyone up - even gold holders - maybe I am wrong.