GIVE IT UP, MAN

In an apparent effort to push back against the well understood point demonstrated by Michael Moore, that Congressmen's kids don't go to war, RichardCranial gives us this:

RichardCranial: percent of congressmen who have children in military 1% percent of u.s. population that has children in military .056%

Let's see...population of Congress - 535. Population of United States - 3 x 10^8. How the fuck is that statistic even meaningful? There's eight orders of magnitude difference in the population sizes! Then there's this gem:

RichardCranial: dick cheney doesn't have anything to with rather his kid are in the service or not

Yeah, right. Rich kids don't usually sign up for Army Infantry, Dick. Nice try though. As if we don't know that having money means you aren't forced to choose combat. And what with Bush cutting the groeth of many government loans and grants, I guess we'll see more of that than before. Let us know when Paris Hilton, Jenna and Barbara Bush, and whatever the spawn of Cheney is named ship off to Baghdad.

JC