[AndyObermann]

Look, there's no need to get hostile. I'm not trying to be elitist or anything of the sort. Let me tell you something...I work here at my college part time, I work at a resturant part time, and I have an ass-load of student loans that I have taken out...all to pay for my education. I have invested as much as I possibly can into finishing. No one from my family has ever gone to, or let alone graduated from college and by being forced into this, it would put an end to those goals.

I'm just coming out with my honest opinion on the matter. If you don't like it, too bad. I would be willing to bet that a good deal of these people would change their tune when and if this actually came to fruition.

[AndyObermann]

SO, calm down and realize that I am only one opinion, but there are plenty who agree with me.

FYI: The majority of those who fought and died for their country did so voluntarily, and they have nothing but respect from me. But, there was no "draft", as we commonly refer to it, before before 1948 and it ended in 1973.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Yeesh. You just don't get it. You're not the first person to have dreams and to (allegedly) work hard toward achieving them.

Both my father and uncle made it through college and medical school without loans, but with scholarships, savings and working, and yet both found ways to fulfill their military obligations to this country without adversely affecting their careers. Hell, my uncle was drafted and spent the better part of 2 years half a world away from his medical training in the early 1970s. Yet he still managed to keep his career going once he was done. Was it something he wanted to do? No, but he did it with pride and honor. And he was never an "unmotivated soldier," as you threaten to be.

You're a metrosexual, aren't you?

[CholeraJoe]

I graduated from college completely debt free. Didn't cost my parents a cent, either. It was a program called Reserve Officers Training Corps. It got me a free college education and a commission in the world's mightiest Air Force.