Congress has taxed workers financially about as much as possible (cumulative 50-75% rates), they are considering taxing your life. This bill is not about conscription during special needs of the nation, it is about FORCING people to spend two years of their lives working directly for the government. For deficit-spending congresscritters, that is a LOT cheaper and more efficient than trying to squeeze more money out of you: rather than attempting to extract what little is left of your income and pay that to a well-compensated federal employee, they just take YOU and make you work for little or no pay.
This isn't about defending the country.
This is about taking taxation in new and horrifying directions.
More dumbing-down; more deconstruction.
According to "Business Week," U.S. colleges are now 60 percent female to 40 percent male. What happened to 50-50?
Doe anyone really think Chelsea would get drafted into this? It's simply to thin the male herd. Pathetic.
I beat you to that logical conclusion in post 61.
But good point.
I wish more people would look hard at this bill. All they see is a flag.
Although I agree with the Constitutionality of the military draft, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. It's not about the military, except insofar as Rangle and his ilk want to further raise the fever-pitch of the anti-war left by dangling a draft under their noses. (Shudder to think of that group in military service!)
Though more than volunteer troops may be needed in the long war that lies ahead, the military is not about to conscript more people than it actually needs, which would leave the vast majority of the 18 to 26 age group to serve at the whim of what the government determines to be "public service" -- which in today's politically-correct world could be anything from assisting at abortion clinics to teaching the Koran at Sunday School to free labor in a Congressional office or chauffeuring illegal aliens across the border.
And then there's a matter of another massive federal bureaucracy -- or an extension of the military bureaucracy -- needed to supervise all this "public service."