Reply #6: I have always thought it was silly

[GrpCaptMandrake]

to think a bunch of inner city kids and desperate rural poor would somehow miraculously become supply-side economists just because they signed on in hopes of getting some college tuition money.

Luis from South Central or Clyde from the cornfields isn't going to become a Bushevik just because he happens to serve under the miserable bastard.

What you have in all the wingnut military is a group of very vocal, strident militants who learned at the feet of Rush in that hour per day of his hatefest that You and I pay to have broadcast on Armed Forces Radio.

They aren't smarter than us, they certainly aren't nicer, but they do understand a whole lot better how to get the message out.