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Here's Rosie with her stupid assumptions, bgMc31
O'DONNELL: Wait, can I just say something? Why do people enlist in the Army?
RICKI LAKE: To get an education, and they're poor-
O'DONNELL: Thank you.
LAKE: -and that's the only way to get one.
O'DONNELL: The vast majority- Yes, Elisabeth. It's true!
According to a recent study by the Heritage Foundation, military enlistees are "better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers." Additionally, "recruits have a higher percentage of high school and college graduates" and "the distribution of household income of recruits is noticably higher than the entire youth population."
HASSELBECK: First of all, in the past year, the testing scores of our armed services have been higher than ever, so the education level-
O'DONNELL: You are wrong. We have more convicted felons in the Army because we're allowing them to get through.
HASSELBECK: So they're awful. They're awful then.
O'DONNELL: Elisabeth, I do everything I can to support the troops financially and emotionally. I love them as much as you do. I'm as much of a patriot. I want them home
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