[bws53]

First to go should be all those late teen to late 20-somethings who seem to have time and money to stand outside of Best Buy for 3-4 days waiting to spend $500 on a PS3. So many idle hands, so many needs. If so many young people have time to waste standing in line for a toy that allows one to spend hours at a time doing nothing, then, perhaps, we do need a draft.

[Past Your Eyes]

Exactly. Too many young people today have it way too easy and think it always has been and always will be and they never have to lift a finger. A draft, or at least the possibility that they might be drafted, might make some of them aware of just how much those who have gone before them have paid for what they now enjoy.

[pandoraou812]

Maybe we should give Rangel all those lovely gang kids to work with. He could train them himself as he is a vet. Those kids love to fight and love guns and have nothing else to do. Does Rangel have fighting age children of his own by chance or grandchildren that could serve too?

[freedomdefender]

If so many young people have time to waste standing in line for a toy that allows one to spend hours at a time doing nothing, then, perhaps, we do need a draft.

How do you spend your time? Are you employed, or retired?

[leadpenny]

If the draft were reinstated only 21-year-olds would be drafted in any given year. If more were needed in that year they would go to the 22-year-olds for that year.

[I see my hands]

"First to go should be all those late teen to late 20-somethings who seem to have time and money to stand outside of Best Buy for 3-4 days waiting to spend $500 on a PS3. So many idle hands, so many needs. If so many young people have time to waste standing in line for a toy that allows one to spend hours at a time doing nothing, then, perhaps, we do need a draft."

Perfecto! If bws53 doesn't approve of the way someone spends his or her life then make them do as they are told or off to prison with them!

[freedomdefender]

You need to re-read you post and think about what you're saying and the mindset it suggests. It's always been the mindset of dictators to look at other people and say, "he or she isn't spending his time the way I think he should be spending his time. I can plan his life better than he is spending his life. Therefore I will order him to spend his time and his life in a way that I consider useful, and will order him to stop spending his time and life in ways that I consider wasteful and frivolous."

If we had a national emergency, a draft might be necessary, but to institute a draft because you want to force young people to spend their time in ways that YOU want them to spend it, smacks of a dictator's mentality.

[toddlintown]

You can find a PS3 for $500? I'll stand outside for that deal myself.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

How about drafting all those thugs who have killed, assaulted and robbed innocent civilians going about their business buying video games? Their violence can be put to good use on the battlefield against the enemy.

[meyer]

If so many young people have time to waste standing in line for a toy that allows one to spend hours at a time doing nothing, then, perhaps, we do need a draft.

Their time most assuredly belongs to them, not to the government.

[steve-b]

all those late teen to late 20-somethings who seem to have time and money to stand outside of Best Buy for 3-4 days waiting to spend $500 on a PS3

Smart kids -- probably got double their money back on eBay.

What do you have against capitalist entrepeneurship?