Posted on 11/09/2005 11:02:45 PM PST by Liberate California
Oh, I think Fleet Week's days are numbered. They don't want the presence in the city, remember?
I agree, after the refusal to allow the USS Iowa to retire at its WWII homeport of SF, because of the War in Iraq, I believe we may have only one or two more Fleet Weeks. It would be nice to see the Blue Angels strafing the city, doing practice bombing runs. Of course we all know that SF will never be a terrorist target..they never attack their allies, right France?
LOL!! LOL!! LOL!!
That will be painful for the enemy. It will be declared Torture by the US Senate. McPain will sponsor an amendment to every bill banning such torture. :-)
As I understand, the Marines already closed their Recruiting Office on Davis Street in SF.
When Fleet Week leaves, and the money goes away, let's see how quickly the recruiters come back.
Blue Angels doing practice bombing runs...LOL You are killing me.
an excerpt:
Middle class filling up military, study says
By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 8, 2005
Middle-class youths, not the poor, are providing the bulk of wartime recruits to the armed forces, according to a new study by a conservative think tank.
The Heritage Foundation research paper found that a higher percentage of middle-class and upper-middle-class families have been providing enlistees for the war on Islamic militants since the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Researchers matched the ZIP codes of recruits over the past five years with federal government estimates of household incomes in those neighborhoods. Contrary to complaints from some liberal lawmakers and pundits, the data show that the poor are not shouldering the bulk of the military's need for new soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines.
The poorest neighborhoods provided 18 percent of recruits in prewar 1999 and 14.6 percent in 2003. By contrast, areas where household incomes ranged from $30,000 to $200,000 provided more than 85 percent.
"We found that recruits tend to come from middle-class areas, with disproportionately fewer from low-income areas," said the report, prepared by Tim Kane, an Air Force Academy graduate and economics scholar. "Overall, the income distribution of military enlistees is more similar to than different from the income distribution of the general population."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20051107-113124-8563r.htm','news',700,400,'TR',0,5,0,'resizable=yes,scrollbars')
Think of it this way, the recruiters could be offering young straight men and women the chance of getting out of such a hellhole.
The city of San Francisco is a regular liberal utopia. It's got the loudest gays, the most ornery bums, and the hairiest women in the west. Is it any surprise how they voted? They're a lost cause.
The Recruiters are offering just that, but with less ways to notify the youth of what the option entails, they will be stuck there. Sometimes literally stuck... Bad enough it is the 13th largest city in America, and only has one recruiting office, and the marines have left the area.
Maybe we can declare them persona non grata and deport them...
They reject anything remotely "American" - even if it makes good practical sense.
If you told the liberals in SF that breathing air was a patriotic American thing to do, they would find a way to suffocate themselves to death. (Wouldn't that be nice...)
Actually, it appears France has decided to try deporting the Rioters.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519147/posts ..Imagine the ACLU raising up if we tried to deport the city of SF...
Now if every FREEPer contacted their congressional representative, we could make that happen. Not one Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine would have a problem with it.
Instead, Proposition I encourages city officials and university administrators to exclude recruiters and create scholarships and training programs that would reduce the military's appeal to young adults.
Some years back the lib-Dems in the SF Bay Area opened their own new "colleges". One's south SF, another is in Santa Rosa. Exclusively "liberal" schools, generally, entered into via scholarships. I've been wondering for quite some time -- all those liberal "ed" inits, locally and statewide, and where the money is being funneled to.
On another topic.. lol...Read what liberal students say are the best colleges for liberals.
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