Hey, I joined the military to put my self through school. It is not an argument. It is a viable option and it helped me tremendously. To call it a joke is insulting. Most of your comments have been asinine in my opinion, but that is the first comment you've said that is actually insulting in my opinion. I served with plenty of people who came from good homes and weren't poor. My father made great money and I grew up in an upper-middle class home and he wanted me to go to West Point to become an officer in the Army. Poor has nothing to do with it. I'm just saying it is a viable option that will get you through school. And an honorable one at that. Yeah, RN programs are stacked and tough to get into, guess you better work your ass off and have the best grades and beat out the others. Every point you try to make looks at society as a whole. How can we all be happy? How can we all get by? Because that naive viewpoint of yours isn't is hollow and false. It always has been. And it always will be.