Last night I was talking to a young man who works with me at my night job. On Sunday he told me he was going to go talk to the National Guard recruiter, as he was thinking of joining. Last night, he told me that they had turned him down because he has a felony on his record. He said the recruiter told him that before the election last fall, they would have taken him, but because the Democrats won the election, we might be pulling out of Iraq. Therefore, word has come down to no longer accept felons.No word on whether they told him, "But hey—come on back if we start bombing Iran!"
I don't even know what to say anymore.
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