mhm, but theyre loswer than normal. much more so than ever before.

That's more to do with the unemployment rate being at an all time low, standards of education increasing and a varied/interesting public job market than some obscure link to the current situation in Iraq.

There's also the private companies in Iraq that are hiring many former military people.

I heard that the "corporate contractors" are actually mercenaries -which doesn't surprise me- but does anyone know about this???

a low percent do

Could this disparity in percentages be due to the fact that the so called haves comprise such a small portion of the population?

have you read das kapital? it's quite a fascinating look into capitalism and where it fails. it proposes socialistic values; some of which we use today in the united states.

Well, I've read volume I, The Process of Production of Capital. While I find his views somewhat appealing, I have to admit that this is not a utopian world.

On a side note, do you not think it a shame that the majority associate Bolshevism with Marxism? It turns my stomach when I hear someone refer to the former Soviet Union as a Marxist state.

i believe that when a soldier pledges his life to defend his country that he should not be misled into fighting for the economic gains of a select few. THAT is the problem we have.

Not to be a war monger here, but it has been shown time and again that war can be an economic boon, ie. our entrance into WWII ended the great depression rather than the new deal. Yes, Halliburton is making a killing, as is KBR. And yes, I was a bit irked about all this but I can look upon the good done and the friendships made, and that by far outweighs the negative.