We have a serious problem when it now takes $40,000 dollars to get kids to want to enlist:

The U.S. Army is having such a hard time recruiting new soldiers that it is about to offer a truly breathtaking incentive to high-school graduates who sign up-a $40,000 signing bonus, to be applied to buying a home or starting a business after their service is complete.

This comes on top of standard-dipping measures that the Army has recently had to take to meet its enlistment targets-accepting more dropouts, more criminals, and more people who score poorly on aptitude tests.

Now who has been the commander in chief for the past 7+ years and which party is the “party of a strong military”? That’s what I thought.