Posted on 05/17/2026 9:52:17 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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. “Our volunteer military forces are the strongest in the world, and there is no need to replicate the same draft that sent 2 million unwilling young men to war 50 years ago,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Wyden cosponsored the bill alongside Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming. Paul, a vocal advocate for congressional war powers, said Congress will declare war if it is worth fighting, and people will volunteer to fight it.
“This outdated government program no longer serves a purpose and should be eliminated permanently,” he said.
The bill comes as the Selective Service will begin automating the registration of men ages 18 to 25 for a potential draft, removing a decades-old requirement that male U.S. citizens and most male residents register themselves. News that the agency was moving forward with the automation, which will pull information from various federal government databases and is expected to be completed by December, sparked fears of a potential draft stemming from the current war against Iran. But lawmakers say the days of calling up young men to fight are over.
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I don’t mind this. It’s a dumb system that isn’t going to be used anyway. Plus, it would be a nice political boost with younger voters.
But we don’t actually conscript anyone, and haven’t for more than half a century. If we ever actually need to do it, we can ramp up the administrative stuff very quickly anyway simply by accessing IRS, Social Security, and other records.
Xi gives nod
“””””Even if what you say is true”””””
Quit BSing people, you are the one making things up that contradict the facts and the records, and people were not enlisting in the Army and Marines to avoid the possibility of war.
As far as no draft when you enlisted, it means you didn’t join between the years of 1940 through 1973, during the 33 years of continuous draft.
It would
IMO if war can’t be fought or a country can’t be defended without conscription it’s not worth worth fighting or saving
Why don’t we save the kids who have a future and send the old people to do those jobs instead?
That is just plain silly, but not as silly as your post 66, just childish inputs.
Right on. Equal rights, equal fights.
The Republicans’ names and quotes come after.
Oh yeah, taking orders from a female will do wonders for morale. /s
That’s your opinion
I’d bet money if it was put to a vote my idea would win
My ancestors did everything they could to make their descendants lives better even if it required great sacrifice it’s a damned shame we know how a generation of retirees who for the most part would send all the best young people to die so they can keep their lifestyle
<>$31 million isn’t even a rounding error, btw.<>
Not even a decent donation to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Then they shouldn't have been fought.
Let the bankers fight each other Thunderdome style. Winner takes the others' assets.
"Two bankers enter. One banker leaves."
Here's conscription for you:
"Ukraine plans to replace the war dead with Africans and give them all the jobs and benefits"
American Thinker 4/20/2026
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/ukraine_plans_to_replace_the_war_dead_with_africans_and_give_them_all_the_jobs_and_benefits.html#google_vignette
"What’s the point in dying for your country when your government just hands it over to foreigners anyway? What’s the point in dying for your country when, instead of your death serving as a payment for a prosperous and secure future for your children and culture, your government just hands it over to foreigners who hate you and all that you were? Ukrainian officials are working on a new plan to replace all their war dead men with third world aliens from the darkest corners of the globe: Islamic Africa."
"Well, let me be more clear: Zelensky’s administration isn’t looking to send these newcomer imports to the warfront to really get a full sense of citizenship and national responsibility—that’s a position reserved for the white, Slavic natives—these Africans are going to be sent to Ukraine to fill the jobs left vacant when the Ukrainian fathers, husbands, and brothers reported for duty, or were dragged into a van and hauled off to the battlefield under “mobilization” policies. The role of cannon fodder is exclusively reserved for the Ukrainian men."
"Volodymyr Zelensky’s head of his Presidential Office in Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, has announced plans to import migrant laborers from Africa. Essentially, this entails Ukraine establishing new laws for the legal entry and residence of foreign workers..."
The enemy would love for you to replace our military with old retired people, that is an offer they would accept at any time in history.
How will the selective service handle the registration of trans men or trans women?
The post I had originally responded to suggested taking the weakest and unqualified and that their deaths would be good for the gene pool
What would be the difference other than maybe some of the young people might improve as they mature
that’s even better!
It would leave healthier youth for the new conquerors to assimilate into their future as they took over your country and it became theirs, since you lost the war by not sending warriors.
“”””I’m tired of adult 18 year old murderers being referred to as ‘teenagers’ by the MSM. Young ferals should be drafted””””
That is the military you want? When you see one of the threads of a feral you think military secrets, high technology and tight discipline and order and self-sacrifice and NCOs and officers and our nation depending on them to save us?
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