Reply #73: Your friends were wrong

[jtuck004]

They serve at the direction of the CiC, for the country. Any argument that they are serving the country still leaves "who" is making that decision. If they are taking on that power themselves, they are traitors to our constitution.

But you know that. And leaving stupid behind was probably a wise choice. There are better uses for your time.


The reason I support a draft is that if we are in it to win, we send all resources. That has always taken a draft (or whatever passes for that), and it always will, for any country. If not to win, get out.

We do not get the best resources just because people join willingly. There are plenty of very smart people who choose not to join who live off the blood of other people. And plenty who just have nothing else to do so they go, not particularly motivated. There are a lot of people who simply are not going to become good citizens until they are exposed to other places and people. We are producing a nation of self-indulgent sheep with no sense of national pride or connection to other people, and the military would give them a somewhat protected environment to realize there might be other ways.

I do not think active-duty military or national guard needs to be involved in rebuilding, except for emergencies and disasters. There should be a "civilian corps", temporary jobs which work on public projects.

We should figure out a way to employ ourselves in the way we built our way out of the "great" depression and WWII, (my grandmother told me there was not a damn thing "great" about the depression, btw). Manufacturing created wealth from our natural resources. Those were private holdings built up with government contracts who then could provide jobs which paid income to buy the things they were producing. Maybe we need huge government contracts that increase the manufacting output on our own soil, (changes in energy supplies are ahead, they are going to be painful, it's time to get ahead of the curve). Farming needs to change, since our food production doesn't seem to be the way to the future, maybe an effort towards a more sustainable agriculture.