Lori Siegel
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I do have an issue whenever it creates this economic incentive at a time of war to potentially have to go and serve in something which other people who are more financially privileged don't have to do.
when they're not bought into it.
If the whole populace is not, and then those people are economically disenfranchised, it creates this, there's also a cultural difference.
There's a lot of people talking about it.
In the South, there's a military culture, so you're more likely to join the military, and then it creates a lot of division in our society.
We lost 4,000 or 5,000 people during the global war, actually no, 7,500 people
in the global war on terror.
But if you look statistically at the counties that they're concentrated in, the people who are quote unquote elite or richer had almost no contact with those people or those families.
So Iraq was a distant conversation.
And unfortunately, it looks like that's what they want to recreate.
Like, yeah, who are the type of people who even have marijuana convictions or drug paraphernalia conviction in the first place?
Who are the type of people who are gonna want to join the military at age 30?
I mean, who's a 39 year old who wants to join the military?
It's usually not like uber patriot.
It could be, and no, if you are one of those people, God bless you.
Most of the time, it's probably, I've got two kids, I need health insurance, I need a mortgage, I gotta make this shit work.
That's the worst possible thing.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's get to polling.