If his 'plan' goes forward, I request every relative 'of age' associated with a congress person be the first in line. It's only 'fair'. I expect a full report by El Rooters and Ai Pea.
Rangel needs to force people in their 70's to perform 2 years of public service. And Rangel's service in Korea should not exempt him from participating in a "makework" program, since he's probably already collected some veteran benefits.
What utter drivel! He didn't dream this up because he is misguided. He did it to try to embarrass the Administration. I suggest it's hard to embarrass someone when the source looks, acts and sounds stupid.
I'm sending this to all the libs who told me Bush had plans to reinstate the draft.
Rangel is tired of Al Sharpton getting all the headlines ;->
"Rangel's social-engineering scheme."
It's not social engineering. It's slavery/dictatorship, with Rangelscum calling the shots.
I'm of two minds about this proposal from the socialist Congressman from Harlem. On one hand, I believe that more young people should be expected to do something for their country, but on the other, should they be forced to do so? I don't think the military should be a "dumping ground" for malcontents, but I think the fact that our upper middle class and above know nothing first-hand about the armed forces is VERY dangerous to the Republic. If we ever go back to a draft, those that opt for military service should receive about three times the pay and benefits of those that go the VISTA/CCC/AmeriCorps/Peace Corps route.
This issue of bringing back the military draft will keep coming up for discussion over and over again in the future no matter what the circumstances are. If the U.S. ever completely eliminated all taxes at some point in the future, then some of the future politicians would probably be talking about possibly bringing back the existence of taxes for a variety of reasons. There are many issues that will be with us forever no matter what does and what doesn't happen in U.S. and in world affairs.
Rangel has been talking about a draft for years and years. I think he misses it. I'm sure it is all politically motivated, designed to make the military seem alien and horrible to common folks. The only difference about his past rantings and now is that people are suddenly listening to him because he will be a committee chairman. This has nothing to do with the present military situation and all to do with the weird mind of Charley Rangel.
Why don't we just state the obvious: while most Republican pols are hardly geniuses, most Dems pols are either dopes like Rangel, crooks like Murtha, Reid, or Jefferson, or stupid and criminal pieces of worthless flesh like Kennedy who was only elected because of his surname. I'm sure the Clintons shake their heads every time one of their fellow Jackass Party associates dream up stupid ideas like Rangel...which appears to be a daily thing.