To: Brilliant
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.
12 posted on
11/19/2006 10:36:46 AM PST by
bws53
To: bws53
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.
23 posted on
11/19/2006 10:42:01 AM PST by
Past Your Eyes
(Do what you love and the ridicule will follow.)
To: bws53
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?
28 posted on
11/19/2006 10:44:59 AM PST by
pandoraou812
( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
To: bws53
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?
To: bws53
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.
To: 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." 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!
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To: bws53
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.
To: bws53
You can find a PS3 for $500? I'll stand outside for that deal myself.
86 posted on
11/19/2006 11:13:41 AM PST by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: bws53
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.
To: bws53
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.
218 posted on
11/19/2006 12:36:29 PM PST by
meyer
(Bring back the Contract with America and you'll bring back the Republican majority.)
To: bws53
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?
406 posted on
11/20/2006 6:30:11 AM PST by
steve-b
(It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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