Posted on 05/30/2004 4:09:47 PM PDT by El Conservador
It was a late Monday night last month in Husaybah, Iraq, and the usual handful of Marines had settled down in their brick and tin building around an Army green cot for what had become a near nightly diversion - a game of cards, spades, to be specific.
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So far, 46 percent of the 798 Americans killed in the war as of May 26 have come from small towns outside of metropolitan areas, according to an analysis by the Post-Dispatch of military and U.S. Census statistics.
For the analysis, "small towns" were defined as those of less than 40,000 people located at least 25 miles away from a "populated place" of 100,000 or more, based on 2000 U.S. census data. That excludes suburban towns.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
"Big business wants you to be loyal to them, but they're never loyal to you," he said. "They don't care about these young people dying, just as long as they make their dollar.
"It's a shame that the young people of this world have to die for us."
Of course, the Post-Dispatch reporters are not trying to instigate a class war at all...(/sarcasm)
HP CEO Carly Fiorina "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."
"When my colleagues get a letter from a constituent who has been displaced by foreign workers, they should write back to them and say, 'It is the policy of this government to displace you, to move you into a lower economic income category, because we believe in cheap labor and we believe the politics of open borders helps our party." - Congressman Tancredo
"Unless there is fresh Congress authorisation, the H-1B visas will automatically revert to 65,000 a year, beginning October. American companies, keen on cost cutting measures, want the liberal provisions to continue." - Hindustan Times, 12-July-2003
"I don't look at this from an economic point of view but the political and social points of view. The question really is whether America can remain a great power or a dominant power if it becomes a primarily service economy, and I doubt that. A country has to have an industrial base in order to play a significant role in the world. And I am concerned from that point of view." - Henry Kissenger 16-July-2003
Well, Mr Smith is pretty close to the truth about big business (and goverment) not being loyal to the American people.
Ah, folks, its business. Loyalty isn't an issue. Consumers aren't loyal to big business. Enlightened self-interest benefits everyone.
Thank Goodness for Small Town's !
Stay safe !
Headline should read, "City Dwellers Won't Fight for their Freedoms".
WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, ... it is always the majority young that are sent, fight and die in war. Prayers to him and his family. 1 will get you 10 he voted for Clinton 2x.
that's more polite than I would have said it... my version had a word that starts with "p", contains three "s"s, and the vowels "e", "i", and "u".
"senior citizens wants you to be loyal to them, but they're never loyal to you," he said. "They don't care about these young peoples homes, mortgage or children, just as long as they get their dollar at the end of the month.
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