{"id":49612,"date":"2019-10-03T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=49612"},"modified":"2019-10-03T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T08:03:08","slug":"student-debt-helps-army-recruitingyuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/student-debt-helps-army-recruitingyuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Student debt helps army recruiting\u2026yuck."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The army is certainly an option for kids coming out of high school. I know better than to say anything negative about our military in today\u2019s culture, but I have doubts that the military is necessarily a good idea, for many reasons. I recall one time speaking to a waitress, a pretty girl, and proud that she\u2019d been accepted into the Air Force (does any other country have a military so large that it\u2019s broken up into so many distinct sub-militaries like ours?). When a colleague suggested to her that she might well be dropping bombs on helpless women and children, the waitress\/bomber was unconcerned, smiling as she countered with:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be getting paid $40,000 a year!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Money soothes many ills, but I worry that our children are now so commonly raised to believe such a sum really is sufficient compensation for killing innocents, but it was the world of near 20 years ago when this conversation was had.<\/p>\n

Now our kids \u201csell out\u201d not for a decent income, but for a chance to escape crushing student debt:<\/p>\n

With student debt an emphasis, the Army meets a more modest recruiting goal in 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Like everything government-related, the only answer to every question is MOAR. Despite no real threats of invasion, our Army (just the Army, no telling how much the other branches want\u2026but I know they want MOAR) plans to increase our country\u2019s troop count to 500,000. I won\u2019t bother asking why we need MOAR, but let\u2019s take a look at how they\u2019re getting it:<\/p>\n

\u2026citing programs that help with student debt as one factor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, this is interesting. Usually one thinks of a new recruit as a fairly young man, 18 or so. If they have programs helping with student debt then that means we\u2019re looking at people who\u2019ve spent a few years in college, quite possibly college graduates\u2014that\u2019s around 23 years old, since many graduates take more than 4 years to get those \u201c4 year\u201d degrees.<\/p>\n

I know, 23 isn\u2019t exactly geriatric, but it\u2019s funny how the student loan scam isn\u2019t simply warping our society, it\u2019s also aging our military, at least a little.<\/p>\n

The Army\u2019s goal was met despite nationwide unemployment of about 3.7 percent. The service traditionally is able to recruit more people when the economy is weaker.<\/em><\/p>\n

The article just glances over the above tidbit, but it\u2019s a big deal. I assure the gentle reader that the government\u2019s economic numbers are rubbish, particularly \u201cunemployment\u201d which simply isn\u2019t the same thing it was years ago. Time and again we get hints the numbers a rubbish, like in the above\u2026but seldom does our media try to connect the dots saying something is very wrong here.<\/p>\n

A common claim is the GI Bill, which allowed our troops returning home after World War II to get free-ish college educations, was responsible for the immense boom in the American economy post WW2. I respectfully disagree\u2014post WW2, America was nearly the only industrialized nation that hadn\u2019t had its economy bombed, infrastructure heavily damaged, and large numbers of its young men killed in battle (or by their own governments).<\/p>\n

In this situation, America\u2019s economy was guaranteed to grow dramatically, as it was alone in position to manufacture, transport, and sell goods to the entire rest of the world. I\u2019ll grant college educations helped with that\u2026but America would have done well post-WW2 regardless of the GI Bill.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, lung surgery #2 has failed as well, and my tumor markers now are higher than before the surgeries. So now I just have to get very lucky that the next tumors, when they find them, will be in places more convenient than my lungs. As I look at the rows of massive buildings at MDA in Houston, all built from the profits from selling treatments which highly predominantly don\u2019t work, I do wonder: if they had to return the money from products which don\u2019t work as advertised (like every other business), would there be enough money left over for a tent city there?<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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