Remember back in the day, during the early days of our wars of the Bush admin when Kerry said if you do not go to school then they only hope for a job was to enlist in the army?  Remember?

Let us see, there is NO money for student loans, Obama is trying and may succeed, but there is NO money for those loans……there are NO jobs to speak of…the economy, especially the job market just plain sucks….what is a person to do?

The WaPo is reporting that the military is doing well with the economic downturn:

For the first time in more than 35 years, the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals, as hundreds of thousands of young people have enlisted despite the near-certainty that they will go to war.

The Pentagon, which made the announcement Tuesday, said the economic downturn and rising joblessness, as well as bonuses and other factors, had led more qualified youths to enlist.

The quality of recruits also improved, with about 95 percent reporting that they had received high school diplomas; last year, 83 percent of the Army’s active-duty recruits had diplomas, short of the goal of 90 percent. The active-duty Army this year admitted only 1.5 percent of recruits who scored in the lowest acceptable category on the standard qualification test; in recent years, that figure had reached nearly 4 percent.

Sen. Kerry while not high on my list as liberals, but he was telling the truth about the military and the Right tried to crucify him for the comment….made him look like a person who hates America….yada yada….you know the usual fear crap that the Right has become famous for in the past.

So many pundits are taunting this as something good….but it was predictable….no job…no school….lousy economy….join the Army…