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Bringing back the draft?
#7874455 - 01/13/08 05:22 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-393
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Legislation > 2007-2008 (110th Congress) H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007
To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the favorable treatment afforded combat pay under the earned income tax credit, and for other purposes.
I hope this dies in committee. Ages 18-42? Do they really need that much cannon fodder for this war?
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: adrug]
#7874459 - 01/13/08 05:23 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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That guy sponsors that bill every year as a protest against the war in Iraq.
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Redstorm]
#7874989 - 01/13/08 07:11 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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how is that protesting the war it seems more for it
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Coaster]
#7875010 - 01/13/08 07:15 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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No, his point, and its a very good one, is that the entire burden of this war is falling on the poor and lower-class who are more likely to take the money that the US Armed Forces are doling out.
He says if you are going to fight the war, you should institute the draft so that the burden of fighting is put onto everyone, the rich and privileged included. He says there is no way the government would be perpetrating this war if their sons were forced to fight.
The only reason he puts the bill up for a vote is that he knows there is NO WAY it will pass. Nobody will vote for this.
Its a protest vote.
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all the sons of the politicians would be bombers or tank commanders anyway theyd have the poor people execute operation human sheild
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Coaster]
#7875118 - 01/13/08 07:32 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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I think you know thats a bit out there.
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I got too much family in Detroit. Where you çan get to Canada in about 10 minuets for a damn draft
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Cubie]
#7875501 - 01/13/08 08:25 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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Yeah, now that the Baby Boomers are out of the picture, its about time these young mouth breathing yuppies and drooling Xs and Ys (and its very shitty to have a generation as a letter) did some fightin'.
Fight for FREEDOM!!!! DRAFT!!!!
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Minstrel]
#7875637 - 01/13/08 08:46 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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If there was a war that was actuley for freedom. I would have no problem fighting. But ill never be a pawn in some ones game.
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Cubie]
#7875719 - 01/13/08 09:00 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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So what about all those Iraqi's over there who are trying to piece together a country out of the rubble we left them.
Would you fight to give them the chance to reclaim their country, or should we just leave it trashed?
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I ment our freedom. Everyone has their own opinion on Iraq.... I personaly do not support it and don't believe the propaganda.
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Cubie]
#7875814 - 01/13/08 09:16 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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I'm just asking what you'd be willing to fight for.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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If america was invaded. I don't think we should go looking for trouble like we so often do.
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Cubie]
#7875862 - 01/13/08 09:26 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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So not to help anyone out?
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Why can't we help ourselves first? God knows we could use it.
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Well always be running to their aid if they never stand up and and learn to do stuff their selves. If we got bombed no one but us would rebuild anything. Because we learned how to take care of ourselves. In the revolutionary war we got help but we didn't stand there and expect anyone to fight our cival war for us.
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: adrug]
#7875937 - 01/13/08 09:38 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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adrug said: Why can't we help ourselves first? God knows we could use it.
We're the most prosperous nation in the history of the Earth.
It's not like there isn't enough to go around.
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Our country has the biggest debt in the world. China is the most prosperous nation currently
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Re: Bringing back the draft? [Re: Cubie]
#7875982 - 01/13/08 09:44 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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50% of their population lives on a dollar a day.
I don't care how much debt we have.
Let me know when they can feed all of their people.
And if you want to believe we are the second most prosperous nation, that doesn't change my argument one wit.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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You're implying that we feed all of our people, which is in fact not the case. People are starving and suffering from malnutrition in America too.
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