Posted on 11/19/2006 10:30:36 AM PST by Brilliant
Why don't these stories ever mention the fact that when this nutjob introduced this before, he voted AGAINST it when it came to a vote? Yeesh!
And he's all over the board on all of this stuff. He voted FOR the use of force in Iraq...before he voted against it! Double Yeesh!
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=H2690103
The reason the draft is a winner is that you can pay draftees $78 per month. That makes the war a lot cheaper to fight.
Rangle is a likeable person. He is also smart and served our country well. However, his pandering and politics are very distasteful to me.
Of course. Government can force people to do a lot of things, and a lot of jobs, if government assumes dictatorial control over people's lives. They did it in the Soviet Union for 70 years - telling people what jobs they had to take for the "good of the fatherland."
Well when it comes to Armies, you need Big Numbers and if there is an associated headache.....well, take some asprin.
Bottom line, a sneaky and very creative new form of welfare.
This guy is a Socialist's socialist!
The only group more useless than a regular government bureaucracy, is a do-nothing welfare program masquerading as a "service" bureaucracy.
Incompetence legitemized forever...
Where does Jesus advocate a draft? Please give me chapter and verse. Jesus is my Lord and Savior. If you're talking Biblical, He's the Authority I look to.
No you can't. Draftees come under the same pay scales as enlistees.
"Isn't it just like Rengel's generation of socialist democrats to protest the most when they were of draft age, but as soon as they have power, insist younger generations give more than they did?"
Great point, except Rangel served in Korea.
"A draft doesn't have to be limited to military personnel."
I disagree. If the government is going to coerce people to put their lives on the line, all draftees should have to take the same risk. I am not in favor of a draft, but if there is one, there should be no exceptions. Let's have no more Vietnam crap, where good young kids get killed and we get stuck 30 years later with Bill Clinton.
You got it. By making military service wildly unpopular, by painting it as a tool of the wealthy to further persecute the poor, and by assuring that the quality of the military will plummet, rangel hopes to destroy our military.
Sorry, my speel cheker screwed up.
A draft is certainly UNbiblical. According to OT law, those who had no stomach for fighting were excused from war.
A draft called for by democrats and passed in a Democrat majority should sink their ship in 2008 . Especially when the NOW cows find that women will be subject to the new draft.
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I think the Muslim world looks at us as paper tigers who will run at the first hint of resistance. I think that the reinstatement of the draft says that we're in it for the long haul and will pay the price to win. We need a bigger footprint in the region. Dismantel the boutique brigades and raise an Army Strong not an Army of one.
Given that a common defense is one the few things the Constitution specifically authorizes the federal government to do, is 5% enough?
The only reason this is important is that, in order to actually start the draft again, and go back to a 2-year cycle-in, cycle-out routine, the number of training facilities would have to be expanded dramatically, along with all the other overhead that would come from a larger force of people who most likely do not consider this to be a career opportunity.
After all that, then you can have the discussion about how to fairly administer draft obligations, and that would be a long, interesting debate. I still have my field jacket, with no insignia. I've told my children that it was my door prize from Mr. Nixon's lottery, and then I found out how much American history they learned in school.
General William Westmoreland, testifying before President Nixon's Commission on an All-Volunteer [Military] Force, denounced the idea, saying that he did not want to command an army of mercenaries.
Milton Friedman interrupted him: "General, would you rather command an army of slaves?"
Hit a nerve did he?
You wouldn't be what is euphemistically called a "gamer"?
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