After reading this, I got an interesting idea about how Obama could go about implementing his mandatory service proposal quickly. Just pass a law updating the role and scope of the Selective Service program. Drop the age of initial registration down to fourteen, with draft eligibility later added on at eighteen, and use the existing Selective Service system to track graduating high school seniors.
It would be eminently feasible for him to do because the Selective Service system is already tied into the federal programs for getting college assistance and getting a security clearance (for those that want to work for the federal government). It probably wouldn't take more than a few months for the Selective Service system to have a completed plan for executing a comprehensive upgrade to take on these new capabilities, provided that the funding is there to execute the plan.
As El Borak said, the conservative movement will spend the next four years or more bitterly pissed off that it didn't use the last eight years to scale back the federal government's powers.
It would be eminently feasible for him to do because the Selective Service system is already tied into the federal programs for getting college assistance and getting a security clearance (for those that want to work for the federal government). It probably wouldn't take more than a few months for the Selective Service system to have a completed plan for executing a comprehensive upgrade to take on these new capabilities, provided that the funding is there to execute the plan.
As El Borak said, the conservative movement will spend the next four years or more bitterly pissed off that it didn't use the last eight years to scale back the federal government's powers.
Well if Obama does that, I hope that he makes chicks register too. The man-only crap is for the birds.
"...the conservative movement will spend the next four years or more bitterly pissed off that it didn't use the last eight years to scale back the federal government's powers."
I doubt it. The conservative movement is filled with big government "conservatives" who are just ticked off that someone else gets to impose their values on the People.
Very few conservatives are upset about not scaling back the government's power. And those that are don't count for much.
I'm skeptical that the Republican party will learn the correct lesson here.
They'll learn the hard way when the Civilian National Security Force comes for their guns and bibles...
While we are all bitterly clinging to them? Cruelty knows no bounds!
That's what the truncheon is for. It'll officially be renamed the "persuasion wand" as government agents "debate" with you over clinging to your guns.
I was thinking the same question regarding women. Although, I was in the Navy and I have to say the women on my ship did not cary their own weight.
That seems to be the general consensus about women in the military, as I've heard the same thing from a friend who went into the Army a few years ago.
I wrote about the mandatory service plan a few days ago, too. My gut feeling is that the political controversy that the new administration will not truly enact mandatory service, due to fears of a massive political backlash from the right, and libertarians.
Good points/insights.
That seems to be the general consensus about women in the military,...
But they do liven the place up.
So you DO still read my blog...