You write: “When I went to college it was 100% on my dime - no student loans. I worked a full time job...”
But, you see, under ‘bama’s plan, the student won’t have enough time to go to school AND work enough hours to be able to do things like, oh, eat and pay bills, because he intends to make all students, starting in middle school and up, give, to start, at least 100 yours a year to “volunteer” service.
This is something the young people haven’t caught onto yet, not the very real probability of a draft. They’re had that simmering in the wings for some time now.
Besides, how else is he going to fill the ranks of his Personal Praetorian Guard - aka National Security Force that he plans that will be “JUST AS POWERFUL, JUST AS STRONG, JUST AS WELL FUNDED” as the military.
Here’s the number of military as of last year, most stationed around the world.
2007 (August) 1,380,082
Picture over a million new “NATIONAL POLICE” - OVER 26,500 THOUSAND PER STATE. I guess that would be enough to clamp down on anyone who dared raise their voice. Sounds more like a “Praetorian Guard”.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y
We had very dear friends who we parted with during the last election. They were absolutely positive Pres. Bush wwas going to reinstate the draft. Nothing wqould convince them he wasn’t going to do so. We parted after a friendship of many years because politics just became too much of a wedge.
Anyway passed their house the other day and guess what. As expected they have Obama signs in the yard. I almost called them up to say “you must have changed your mind and are ok with a draft, because Obama is really going to do it.”
But I decided to let sleeping dogs lie.