The Draft: Revisited

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CaryP

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"We as free people have the right to choose our path, just as our forefathers have."

ZeoE,

We still "free"? LOL What can you do that you don't need a license, permit or proper govt. ID? LOL Man, we passed "free" about 30 to 50 years ago, depending on your perspective. My take is our freedom ended in 1913, but that's a whole nother thing. The process began with the Civil War IMO. The events of 1913 really got the ball rolling, and we've been headed downhill ever since. The process has turned into a bunch of willing slaves. Try and do something without the appropriate "government permission" in the form of a license, permit or govt. issued ID and see how far you get. LOL You'll probably have a close encounter of the wrong kind with the court system or a SWAT team, depending on what you're attempting. Talk about "THE MAN." He's got us all by the shorts. Too damned funny, or too damned shameful. I can't decide.

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PyRo99

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Disgusting.

I dare them to try and make me take the test. What is it? Junior year next year for me. Bring it on. My answers will have a riddle. And if theres any writing sections, oh they're just gunna go slap-happy over what I'll write.

We've got these OGTs next week. They were formed by the new Buscho act, No Child Left Behind. And if you don't pass, you're getting slammed into a corner. Put your dunce cap on, because if you continue to fail then they've got some big time reprimand coming. Federal Aid, State turnover, lawd knows what happens if the whole school fails. Wouldn't that be interesting an entire boycot, of some stupid standardized test.

But if y'all want. I'll take pictures of the test with my camera phone. Put up some sample crap. Completely prohbiited, and I bet illegal. But hell do I care. Legalities were thrown out the window once Buscho entered office.
 
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K@t 5

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I thought the only one in the corner with the dunce cap was Bush...guess he meant what he said about being a role model!
 
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Found this on a financial analysis of the dollar and how Asian banks are starting to diversify out of it. Seems the military is in "trouble" and a draft is being considered "officially."

Cary


The Pentagon continues to plead poverty in spite of a budget now in excess of $500bn (larger than the defence budgets of the next 20 countries combined). ?Such is the state of its recruiting shortfalls that a draft is quietly being considered: Rolling Stone magazine reported in late January that two of Mr. Rumsfeld's deputies met with the head of the Selective Service Agency in February of 2003 to ?debate, discuss and ponder a return to the draft.? According to a memo from that meeting made public under the Freedom of Information Act:



? ?Defense manpower officials concede there are critical shortages of military personnel with certain special skills, such as medical personnel, linguists, computer network engineers, etc. The potentially prohibitive cost of ?attracting and retaining such personnel for military service,? the memo adds, has led ?some officials to conclude that, while a conventional draft may never be needed, a draft of men and women possessing these critical skills may be warranted in a future crisis.??

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Similarly, USA Today reported last week that the US Army and some elite commando units \"have dramatically increased the size and the number of cash bonuses they are paying to lure recruits and keep experienced troops in uniform.\" For some special elite units, the Pentagon is offering up to $150,000 in bonuses, while more than 49 percent of the job categories in the Army can now receive $15,000 bonuses, and \"16 hard-to-fill job categories, including truck drivers and bomb-disposal specialists\" are eligible for $50,000 bonuses.
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http://www.prudentbear.com/internationalpe...perspective.asp
 

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