There's talk of reinstituting the military draft in Washington. Charles
Rangel has been pushing the idea for a long time now. Rangel's push isn't
tied to recruitment levels. Reports show that military recruitment isn't
suffering because of the war. Rangel's problem is not how many are
volunteering to serve, it's who is volunteering to serve. Rangel didn't
like the fact that most of the volunteers come from lower and middle income
American families. It's an interesting concept, isn't it? In effect
Rangel is saying that volunteerism is OK, just so long as the right people
volunteer. If the people that we really want to volunteer don't volunteer
then we'll have to consider forcing them to volunteer.
This seems also to be the attitude adopted by Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel.
Hagel is also talking about reinstituting the draft. The reason? Again ...
the right people aren't volunteering.
Do we need a draft? No. Recruitment levels are high enough to meet current
demand. There has been no significant decline in military recruitment since
the start of the action in Iraq. In fact, recruitment went up after the
9/11 attacks.
Our politicians in Washington should worry more about making America a
country that men and women would be willing to defend, and to worry less
about ways to force people into military service. People will fight for a
country that protects and defends their rights to life and liberty, and
their right to use their talents and their work ethic to pursue happiness
and a comfortable lifestyle. People will be less willing to put their lives
on the line to defend a system where the fruits of their labor are seized to
empower politicians by rewarding laziness.
In effect, we already have a draft in America. About one-half of the
working men and women in this country are forced to work the first three
months out of every year for the benefit of others. They work these first
three months of every year and then surrender all that they have earned
during that time so that it can be transferred by politicians to people who
have abandoned all or much of the responsibility for their own lives,
including their responsibility to provide for their own food, shelter and
clothing; to provide for the care and education of their children, and to
make the decisions necessary to provide for their eventual retirement.
Rangel and Hagel .. among others ... are upset that more young men and women
from upper income families aren't joining the military. They're saying that
these upper income families aren't carrying their share of the load. There
are many different ways to carry the burden of defending America. You can
do it by serving in the military, or you can do it by turning over the
fruits of your labors in private sector to fund the military. While it may
be true that many of the volunteers who serve in the enlisted ranks of our
armed forces come from middle and lower income families, it is also true
that almost the entire burden for funding the military comes from those in
upper income brackets. I don't hear any of these leftist politicians saying
that we must find a way to spread the burden of funding this war to lower
and middle income Americans.
The way to attract more men and women to military service is to establish a
program of veterans benefits that greatly reward those who volunteer. It
also might be a good idea to pay some attention to veterans hospitals while
we're at it.
boortz.com
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Liberals Want a Draft |
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Quoth "Liberals_HATE`America" <SaveAmericaNOW@GeorgeBush04.com> in
news:f5b5e3e4175220b8250f0ae1abe0f4f5@news.meganetnews.com:
There's talk of reinstituting the military draft in Washington.
Senator Chuck Hagel is a "left-wing liberal"?
That's news to me.
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charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these
men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them
to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S.
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