[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.

[bws53]

You're close in your analysis. Think 'parenting' instead of 'dictator.' However, parents don't control kids today, the advertisers do. Too many parents allow their kids to be branded and these kids grow up to be totally brainwashed into thinking their life is horrible if they don't have the latest gadget or they don't have the newest car. Way too many teens and 20-30-somethings were raised by marketing agencies instead of their parents; and the parents are the ones who let that happen.

There was time in this country's history when young people waited in line for jobs (and sometimes food). Now they wait in line for toys and beg like they are in a bread line. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this?

[aspen64]

Not all the line-sitters took their games home and opened the box. Some of them, and no one knows which ones, put them on ebay and made a ton of money.
Which makes those line-sitters investors/capitalists.