Some people are proposing to restore the draft

Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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Personally, I'm not sure it's such a good idea. A voluntary military seems like it would have higher moral than a military of people who don't want to be there and who didn't have a choice.


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  • Posted by ShruginArgentina 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hope you are right about the Senate in 2014, but the press is so dedicated to their youthful leader that a change in power might not happen.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think they have put in provisions in the Dream Act that encouraged enlisting to receive citizenship quicker. I think you are right that Obama had at one time wanted to have a policy for young people to serve in some capacity. Do you really think the Dems could get back the congress in 2014? They are more likely to also lose the Senate. There is more fun ahead for this health care fiasco. Come January, Obamacare will have to actually start providing medical services through the insurance people have signed up for. There weren’t enough doctors in the system that took medicaid or medicare before.Nothing in this new law has done anything to change that. Now there will be millions of more people lined up for free care in a system that was barely working. Popcorn, please. I’m here for show. Anyway, I think Congress is not up for grabs for the Dems.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago
    It’s an opinion piece. He gave his opinion. I don’t agree with it, but I think there is something to be said about how few of those currently serving in the House and the Senate have ever really served our country. He might have hit the nail on the head of how our politics got so bi-partisan. The congress, while always capable of days on end of in-house bickering, has been made up of men who at the end of the day could go have dinner together. The sense of fellowship is gone. Might be a good idea in the future to point out how important it is that a candidate have some experience in the military, unless of course, we are determined to fill all the seats with ‘community organizers’.
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