Newt Gingrich endorses modified DREAM Act bill - Page 2

I totally agree with you. You know what seems to be helping Romney alot? The fact that he is campaigning with this fervent top-dog-status rhetoric. And, many people seemed to be so pumped up about it . . .

See the thing is people tend to ask this question almost all the time, "What's in it for me?"

If an illegal goes and finish college and be granted legalization right after it, where's their gain on that? Heck they'd see it as competition and we all know Americans hate that.

Whether you'd like to admit it or not, we went to college to improve our OWN lives not the lives of others (?).

Contrary to that, if we join the military we'd be seen as heroes and thus more deserving. We DON'T have to kill or shoot somebody, heck the Airforce offers different career paths.

So to sum this up, the ARM's Act is actually not that bad (Unless they require us to join the Marines and spend a year on a battlefield).

^this. Guys, a chance is a chance. Please consider the option if it does pass, and I hope it does.

Personally, for me, I wouldn't mind enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces; it's been something that I've always wanted to do since I was in middle school, (I think when I saw the news about the Twin Towers in the sixth grade). On the other hand, here you have other students whom would be eligible for the original Dream Act that don't want to sing up, what happens to them?

All I know is that I will take advantage of any pathway given us. If other Dreamers prefer to be choosy rather than being practical (like joining the Airforce to further their careers) then that is too bad. We can't always have what we want. Be a survivor not a whiner.

We have options, we can either be happy and take what they give us or be choosy and stay illegal for another 10 years or so.

hopefully it passes.. FUTURE NAVY CORPSMAN right here yo!!

my bestfriend was a NAVY Corpsman.. got out after 5 years(he never got sent over to Iraq) and now that foo is just sitting pretty at home.. All he worries about is school. All expenses are being paid for.. he gets money from the government for unemployment, FAFSA, and the NAVY.

Yes but here's my question: with the military downsizing, how many openings are there going to be, especially in the Air Force? What if you and a citizen want the same job? Or are you gonna get stuck cleaning shitters?

Look at this:

Each of the U.S. military’s service branches met its active-duty recruitment and retention goals for the first quarter of fiscal 2011, the Department of Defense said.

“We are very proud that our all-volunteer force can still be successful in a wartime environment,” Douglas Smith, a spokesman for the Army’s Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky., said Thursday.

Through December the Army surpassed its first quarter goal of 14,100 by 433 recruits, with the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force all meeting their recruiting goals or exceeding them. The Marine Corps Reserve surpassed its goal by the largest percentage with 116 percent, pulling in 2,637 recruits, 71 more than its goal.

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Smith said the Army is proud of its recruiters’ ability to convey war stories effectively enough to aid recruitment.

When asked if he thought the economy was a factor, Smith said it had “a small amount to do with it ... but not a major impact.”

The four active-service branches met or exceeded their fiscal year-to-date retention goals, while the National Guard and reserve components were within “acceptable limits,” according to a DOD news release. The only branch to not meet its first quarter goal was the Air National Guard, which missed its goal of 1,564 by eight recruits.

The Army’s active-duty recruiting goal in 2010 was 74,500; that number dropped more than 7,000 in 2011. The Navy’s recruiting total increased by more than 700 in 2011 to 37,300. The Air Force active-duty recruiting goal for 2011 is 27,816, slightly less than its 2010 goal of 28,363, and the Marines goal for 2011 is 31,500, an increase of 3,500 from 2010, according to the recruiting commands for each service.

I would never sell my soul to the elite for a piece of paper.

Bring your resume, fight for a job, survival of the fittest!

You bet your asses we'll be first infantry.