I prefer abolishing congress.
Great since the system is automating we can easily include the women in as well.
Talk about being anti-war and making sure the population of the U.S. never has skin in the game anymore.
“Professional” is a buzzword for “all-volunteer”. In a major attack on the mainland, that won’t ever be a sufficient fighting force.
Do you see any of our enemies eliminating conscription?
Beware getting rid of this. Just when you think, “Oh, it will never happen…” along comes some scumbags and we have mass casualties on a scale never seen before.
“A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday to abolish the government agency that keeps a list of men eligible for the military draft. The senators say the agency, known as the Selective Service System, is costly and a relic of the past, operating with a budget of $31 million per year to prepare for a draft that has not occurred since 1973.”
Out of the tens and hundreds of billion$ in budget reductions the Senators could offer, they focus on this tiny $31 million item, intents as they are with trying for the moment to win an “anti-war” popularity vote.
Frankly at $31 million it seems very financially efficient of a nationwide system that only, in case of national military emergency, keeps track of men coming of age for possible call up, if needed and if also Congress additionally, by legislation, activates the draft.
Pass the SAVE act. Losers.
They’ll just waste the money somewhere else.
Make two years service mandatory for all 18 y/o citizens.
Should be the exact opposite.
There should be compulsory military service for men similar to South Korea.
But lawmakers say the days of calling up young men to fight are over.
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We noticed they’ve already surrendered, so this tracks.
$31 million isn’t even a rounding error, btw.
It would be like dropping space travel plans after Apollo; without someone around who knows how it works it would take forever (and a ton of money) to re-establish the system if you need it. And….if we really need it, time will be of the essence.
Of all of the government expenses I’ve seen people want to cut, this one makes the least sense.
I want to see it expanded. If a draft happens, All of Congress and all defense contractors up to the CEO should have to get paid according to a military pay scale. CEO of Lockheed or Raytheon? 234k a year, and so forth, right on down.
If blue collar men have to give up their freedom, and go into involuntary servitude for a few years when they wave the flag, then the war industry and the people who cause and send them to war should have to sacrifice also.
Yes, the good ol' days as a 10 year old watching older cousins and older relatives of friends get called up for Vietnam. I was lucky but it was a great time to be a kid having that possible future hanging over your head in the late 60's and early '70's.
I reflexively distrust Ron Wyden, and hesitate to trust Rand Paul...
“Senators propose abolishing the Selective Service”. They want a draft instead.
I’m think the REAL PROBLEM is that too many Leftists are refusing to register.
Bipartisan. That’s when the stoopid party and the evil party get together and do something that’s both stupid and evil.
Any attempt at a draft would be met with orders of magnitude more resistance than what happened Vietnam era. And for good reason, even with Trump momentarily in charge.