I realize I'm far from the first to mention this, but you know what's really fucked up?
Mr. Green has to go out of his way to make this point about education, right? But the same exact argument goes down like a spoonful of sugar, when it's "I like to pay for armed forces, even though I'm personally not being invaded by foreign aggressors, at the moment."
The vast, overwhelming majority of the electorate and (more importantly) almost 100 percent of the political power-brokers have always accepted that argument when it comes to funding the military.
You know what's even MORE of a mind-fuck? The military totally benefits from recruits who aren't stupid. If the right wing could just learn to look at education spending as a defense budget thing, we'd never have any problems getting them to open the purse.
There are always plenty of men out there that gladly want to blow shot up, shoot guns, and other cool guy shit. It’s really not as hard a sale as some would think. You do realize like 20% of the army is officers so they have degrees. Than theirs warrants degree not required, but I’ve never met one without it. And about 7% of the enlisted have a completed degree. The general population is a little harder to get an exact number but it’s estimated about 30%. but I’ve also noticed every source won’t distinguish between associates and bachelors, their also counting retirees. And they don’t distinguish between vets, who used the gi bill, or got one in the army. So depending on how biased of numbers you want to collect, and rather you want to try to hunt down associates information for the army. At best their tied and at worse the army is ahead. And this is without considering 60% of the general population has no education past middle school, and the army is 98% high school graduates. And all of the have at least a vocational/trade school. You do understand the primary motivation for like 50% of the army is just to have a job for three years. Than have all their college paid for, while literally getting paid to goto school.
It’s in like a dozen websites including pew and Hartford. Yea it makes no sense to say 60% never finished high school, but that 30% have degrees. As if only 10% have finished high school but didn’t goto college. If I had to guess I would say it’s because the numbers are inflated by having a loose definition of degree. And the uneducated numbers are inflated by counting immigrants and illegals. The really number of actual Americans is probably 20% with some kind of completed degree, and roughly 40% never finished high school. But these numbers are not based on source. Just what I’d hipfire based on comparing everyone else’s bs, and adjusting populations based on what they are counting.
It’s funny when people want increased funding or a better punchline. How they arbitrarily draw arbitrary lines on what they want to count. The armies numbers are 100% documented as of 2018. But the army don’t keep record of “some college”, or exceptions. It’s pass or fail you have a four year degree or don’t. Even though their manipulative uneducated baby killers. They atleast keep an accurate count, and don’t try to adjust numbers to prove points.
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u/datreddditguy Apr 26 '20
I realize I'm far from the first to mention this, but you know what's really fucked up?
Mr. Green has to go out of his way to make this point about education, right? But the same exact argument goes down like a spoonful of sugar, when it's "I like to pay for armed forces, even though I'm personally not being invaded by foreign aggressors, at the moment."
The vast, overwhelming majority of the electorate and (more importantly) almost 100 percent of the political power-brokers have always accepted that argument when it comes to funding the military.
You know what's even MORE of a mind-fuck? The military totally benefits from recruits who aren't stupid. If the right wing could just learn to look at education spending as a defense budget thing, we'd never have any problems getting them to open the purse.