Posted on 10/24/2017 7:15:25 PM PDT by Simon Green
Although I understand your reasoning and reluctance, the reasoning you use are quite bizarre. It amounts to saying we can’t do this now because we never did it before.
New laws are continually passed which impose inconvenience on certain people out of a need to benefit the greater majority.
There is a phrase you may be familiar with. It addresses the order of importance, or what should be, in a man’s life.
God
Nation
Family
Like I said, freedom is not free.
Yes It has been interesting to have this discussion with you. I love my country like a person, like a mother or a child. When she has been under attack from within I have had her on my mind day in day out. If she were attacked on our homeland I would fight & die for her.
I love her because I am free to make my own decisions and to reap the consequences and the benefits. I can be anything I want to be and I love her because she is the best of any Nation in the World at letting each child have that chance even though she is not perfect.
I love America because she uniquely, among all the Nations, respects individual differences and freedoms while protecting the rights of others not to be infringed on.
ANTIFA, BLM, Avenging Atheists and The Gay Nazis are threatening my America. Without in the least meaning badly so do you.
Freedom is not free is a slogan. It does not have the same meaning to all and it isn’t a license to take control of young peoples lives for a period of time you think is adequate to pay for their freedom.
I find it dumbfounding that you don’t see the irony in taking control of people’s lives in the name of freedom. It would be one thing if there were a war on and America was shorthanded in volunteers but that’s not true. It would be another thing if the Army/Navy/Marine commanders were desperate for a better stream of recruits but they all want a volunteer army.
Only the social planners are on board with this idea and frankly they should manage their own lives as they see fit as I will do with mine.
If you think for a minute about the lives ruined, the grief and division brought on by the draft for the Vietnam war, and the extremes people went to not to serve which in many cases blighted their lives & their families lives, perhaps you can glimpse part of the unintended consequences of this daft universal draft idea.
America is not a country where it is OK to take from one group to benefit the majority. That is a socialist/globalism aim. Here a person has rights even when they inconvenience others. When that principal is ignored as in eminent domain there is pushback and uproar and each case must be decided individually & can be appealed.
And yes I do say that this kind of life changing ruling cannot be imposed on Americans from above. It has never been part of our culture or our heritage and if there is to be a change it should be by plebiscite. A measure of the fact that the promoters know the American people are so strongly against this idea is that it is never suggested that we have such a plebiscite.
Sure it's a slogan. It doesn't make it less true or meaningful. God Bless America is also a slogan and there are many others.
I find it dumbfounding that you don’t see the irony in taking control of people’s lives in the name of freedom. It would be one thing if there were a war on and America was shorthanded in volunteers
How sad you would put yourself and your desired profession ahead of everything which made it possible to begin with.
I think its sad that you don’t realize that there are many ways of giving.
My office did charity care. We took Medicaid patients and didn’t even let them know we weren’t billing so they wouldn’t feel beholding. We took care of patients without insurance by billing them the lowest negotiated fee and if they paid a little every month we wrote them off after 2 years (total pay $120 for whatever they had MRI/CT etc). If the first study I did didn’t give the whole answer I did the next study and didn’t bill for it so the patient could go home with an answer not worry for the days until a second appointment.
I worked over 100 hours a week in residency for $18K a year and when that was completed I stayed at my practice until everything was done often until 11pm for the next 20 years. If a patient needed something I cancelled any plans for dinner or the theatre and took care of my patients.
I don’t know your life and you don’t know mine but the community gained much more from my service as a physician than if I had spent 2 years in the Armed Services and the point is it was my choice. We are not cut from cookie cutters and the same path is not best for everyone. We each serve God, our country and do what we think is right in our own ways.
I sincerely applaud your service to the community.
We disagree in that your priorities are in my opinion skewed.
God
Country
Family
And I will include one more
Community.
Without the first 2, the last 2 would not exist in anyway close too how they can today.
Mark Levin is against it.
By any rational standard, given the realities on the ground today, women most certainly should be required to register for selective service. No feminist could possibly object, and no fellow traveler should either. Sauce for the goose and all that.
What about those who have been reared to be conservative pro-family women?
What about those women who are pregnant?
What about those women who have small children?
HELL NO!
Sound like a great plan!
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