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In reply to the discussion: Lawmakers Push For End To Draft Registration In US [View all]Heywood J
(2,515 posts)I have that quote framed, but that was also fifty years ago. Back then, Dad usually worked one job for thirty years, which paid for a modest house and fed the family, and then received a pension when he retired. Today, which of their four contract, benefit-less, part-time jobs would you like people to quit so they can do for their country? Will you or the government pay the difference when quitting that fourth job means the rent can't be paid or the bills go underwater?
At that time, there was an implicit understanding that your country would take care of you as long as you put into it. Now, your country is busy shipping your job to China, dumping your retirement and social security into the stock market for banks and hedge funds to guzzle, and beating you with a truncheon for trying to attend a town hall event.
There are things to be fixed before we can start talking about doing for your country.