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The US professional military represents less than 1% of the population, mostly working-class people from small towns in America's rural, poorly-educated heartland.
Eric Margolis: Attention All Republican Flag-Wavers -- If You Want Wars Abroad, Pay for Them Eric Margolis 2010
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This blinkered libertarianism espoused by Bryan Caplan, Matthew c, and John Pertz at least partly explains why our media has been spewing happy talk all these years about how essential it is to our economy that we let millions of poorly-educated indigents flood in.
Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But suppose you take away the poorly-educated as a political constituency.
Foreword to Bryan's Book, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The US professional military represents less than 1% of the population, mostly working-class people from small towns in America's rural, poorly-educated heartland.
Eric Margolis: Attention All Republican Flag-Wavers -- If You Want Wars Abroad, Pay for Them Eric Margolis 2010
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The tea party people are, for the most part, poorly-educated non-thinkers who want others to think for them - so they act when told to act the way they've been told to act.
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Of the three statements below about increased trade between a country with a highly-educated work force and a country with a poorly-educated work force, one is true, one is false, and one is uncertain.
Rank-order Multiple Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"They were poorly-educated and came for the money and free food," she said.
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I think the good thing is that America is finally seeing the "real" Clintons and their mindless poorly-educated sycophant followers for what they are - the charactature on Saturday Night Live about Hillary being effective as satire primarily because it was true.
Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky 2008
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In recent decades, the U.S. has been globalizing its economy, by cutting tariffs and shipping manufacturing jobs to China, and has been globalizing its population by importing tens of millions of poorly-educated Hispanics with IQs around the global average of 90.
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"They were poorly-educated and came for the money and free food," she said.
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