Rural Underclass' Desire to be Cannon Fodder is Fading

An unintentionally hilarious sob story from an ex-Army recruiter who says that Michigan’s rural poor are hard to enlist because he found them, “a population that preferred seasonal work, maple sugar, trapping, logging, fishing, etc., supplemented by welfare and unemployment insurance, and so the kids we were trying to entice with the offer of Fun-Travel-Adventure saw no real benefit” [to enlisting]. Except for the welfare payments, that  looks like a pretty good life.