Joe Bageant: Mash Note for the "Girl with the Leash"
June 17, 2004
Joe Bageant: Mash Note for the “Girl with the Leash”: “Most of the young soldiers were fleeing economically depressed places, or dead end jobs like Lynndie had at the chicken processing plant. These so-called volunteers are part of this nation’s de facto draft—economic conscription. Money is always the best whip to use on the laboring clasess. Thirteen hundred a month, a signing bonus and free room and board sure beats the hell out of yanking guts through a chicken’s ass.”