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To: Brilliant

The reason the draft is a winner is that you can pay draftees $78 per month. That makes the war a lot cheaper to fight.


64 posted on 11/19/2006 11:02:42 AM PST by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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To: ArtyFO

No you can't. Draftees come under the same pay scales as enlistees.


70 posted on 11/19/2006 11:04:50 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: ArtyFO

...which of course will be heavily taxed to pay for the war itself.


153 posted on 11/19/2006 11:52:25 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
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To: ArtyFO
The reason the draft is a winner is that you can pay draftees $78 per month.

*** DING DING DING *** No more calls; we have a winner!

Rangel wants our servicepeople and their families to live on dog food while he spends the savings on more vote-buying bread and circuses.

407 posted on 11/20/2006 6:31:30 AM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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