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.
It was a hard decision for me to make because there are so many candidates to choose from and others may disagree with me but I believe that Rangle is the absolute stupidest member of congress.
Lol- Rangel wants a draft- then he coems out and insults the troops- is he totally insane? Looks like he's trying to rile the folks up to start some kind of insurection. Seriously though, he is only trying to embarrass the admin by suggesting this- He ALSO knows that when there is a draft on that people will protest the war even harder just as they did in Vietnam- http://sacredscoop.com
Let us examine the scenario that will occur. The army says it needs 100,000. They draft 120,000. Right off the bat, you have educational deferrments...which wipe out 25,000. Then you come to the group who say they won't accept orders by the current administration or by the military...so that 40,000 are given peace corps jobs or national foresty service jobs...which both groups admit that the most they want is 3,000 each...so congress has to authorize some kind of deal to entice them to take the 20,000 each.
Then you have the 10,000 who are extremely overweight...and can't pass the physical. You also must count in 2,000 who can't read or write to such a degree to be in the military. So we've counted out 77,000 guys out of the 120,000 to start with. Then toss in the drug-use guys...who might number 10,000 and the 8,000 who open proclaim themselves gay (maybe they are....maybe they aren't)....these 18,000 have to have some kind of duty...so they shuffle them off to inner-city projects which go nowhere.
So the military who wanted 100,000 draftees...get 25,000. The entire action...to classify them...to test them...to find them jobs with foresty officals or innercity projects...will cost over $300 million per year. And the amusing thing...you still have another 75,000 draftees you have to find somewhere...maybe in Mexico or Honduras...but we gotta draft these boys from somewhere. Its a joke from step one...and you can't laugh because your tax dollars pay for it. And Rangel? His smart office help....who convinced him to do this...are the idiots who triggered this entire event. The whole program ends four years later when a GAO project determines the hidden cost for each year is almost $600 million...for the guys who never made it to the US military.