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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
That settles it. You are middle management in Florida. That totally proves there are no poor people in America. That also disproves that people enlist mostly due to economic difficulties. I guess the big recruiting offices in poor cities are coincidence. Logic like this and some people say a community college degree is worthless. I guess you showed them!
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I never set out to disprove the existence of poor people. My posts have been in direct contradiction to your repeated claims that if you're not rich in America you're screwed.
Shortly after I was born on the naval base, my parents moved to a suburb of Detroit and my dad welded bumpers on cars at the Ford plant til I was about 5, we lived in a mobile home.
Everyone has opportunities... I can't fill out the paperwork and do the homework for them. If you have the will to succeed, you certainly can.
I'm sorry that your experience in the US Infantry didn't pan out like the movies. Although, that movie Jarhead, or Blackhawk Down, or any of the WWII or Vietnam movies of the last decade, don't exactly strike me as big recruitment drivers. The movies I've seen suggest the infantry is a very dangerous and perhaps even depressing place to be.
What would you define as a reasonable household income to not be screwed?