Reply #11: Flame away, but this is one aspect of this that is disheartening

[tnlefty]

to me. This article also mentions the financial drain and that other countries are aligning themselves so as not to be as heavily impacted by our devaluing currency. There is less money to care for our own, less money available for scholarships, Pell grants, etc.

My son has been alarmed by the numbers of recruiters coming into his school during the past 6+ months. He attends a majority black school that qualifies to be a Title 1 school. Earlier this week there were 5 recruiters in his school with all types of displays, promising money for college and big signing bonuses. He was upset because he said that it was pretty obvious that the recruiters weren't even talking to the white kids until they weren't getting a lot of takers. The black women that I know from that school were involved in Mothers Opposing Bush and got stickers and buttons from me. They knew kids who had been injured in Iraq and one kid who had been there 3 times. They didn't like anyone in the Bush** administration who was in any way responsible for this lied into war.

I've talked to a few people the past couple of weeks and in the more affluent schools the recruiters aren't hitting the schools as hard, if at all.

I wonder if Dr. Rice and Mr. Young are so out of touch with reality that they aren't seeing who is being 'preyed upon', if you will allow.