We know there are questions on this…registering with Selective Service has been a longstanding requirement to receive federal student aid/a federal job. However, the U.S. military has been all-volunteer since 1973 & Congress would need to pass a new law to institute a draft.1973. Nearly a half-century ago. Schools do a really good job informing their students regarding what's what.
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… Selective Service Website Crashes as Panicky Snowflakes Fear a New Draft | News and Politics.
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I do not understand why we still have the Selective Service: https://dc20011.blogspot.com/2019/12/registering.html
ReplyDeleteI will add that the advertisements concerning the duty to register hint at serious consequences if one does not. I have seen these advertisements for thirty-odd years and doubt that anyone really follows up on the unregistered young. But somebody of the age to register has a lot less context.
ReplyDeleteAmazing. Word from the leftward memes on social media is how we won't be seeing the cowardly MAGA hatters lining up to serve.
ReplyDeleteTo note, I believe all 3 of my sons registered.
ReplyDeleteAs for myself, I had a random number of 13, 1A prime beef, was 17, dodging nothing, considering which branch to enlist in, when the Viet Nam Conflict was called off. Like so many vets, and others willing to serve, I do not like this coward calling any military shots. He cannot be trusted.
Well, cast your vote next time around.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, the Republicans can come up with someone else. Otherwise, which Democrat has the best approach? I just switched to leaning toward Warren, because she comes from a military family, a type of thinking and respect that we have sorely been lacking this past decade, and that she actually has plans to address issues -- plus she is truly responsive to her constituency, me personally included. The Dems may not have any conservative approaches we like, but there is more than one way to skin a cat than my way or yours.
ReplyDeleteThis is all new to me, being pretty much a lifelong Republican, who must now look for answers in another party. It's so tricky and easy to get frustrated, but it must be done. Looking for things like the right heart becomes tantamount.
What makes me a moderate is that the free market does not handle insurance any better than the government, and this includes health care. If someone has no insurance, then a hospital gets stiffed by the system we have, because ethically they must provide service to someone who cannot pay. And all people who show up, must get care, including the children of undocumented immigrants.
I am also pro-worker. It should be noble to be a worker. To work at your job, pay attention to your job all during your days, and let someone else whose job it is to deal for your wage, so you do not have to worry whether you are being treated fairly, do your bidding. My mother was a teacher and always appreciated the teachers union for just this reason. She just wanted to teach. Both big business and big labor are corrupt. In our times, big corrupt business has pretty much buried big labor, and is essentially out of control.
No party is addressing the issues that have come with runaway capitalists, the case that Sanders make best. We do not have the free market system of Adam Smith economics, micro-, macro-economics as they used to be conceived. Socialists became super-controlling-pseudo-socialists from our social point of view before Capitalists became super-controlling-pseudo-capitalists.
Now what? Libertarians have no answer. Fringe voices are calling for us all to watch out for fascism, racism, and such.
We keep wanting "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" but it is getting farther and farther away from us. We want the courage to fight the right war, if it is the right war, an Abraham Lincoln leader, even a Republican of our moment so badly, that we accept the double think of a coward in chief that cannot be trusted.