Re: Selective Service begins Hiring, Bush May Reinstate Military Draft

From: OhBrother (nobody_at_noplace.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:51:27 GMT

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:58:52 -0500, Brian Thorn wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:12:43 -0400, "Jonathan" <jon@home.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Despite the protestations from both sides
>>of the aisles, it's quite possible the military
>>draft will resume if Bush is reelected.
>
> There are a number of measures that can be taken before we need to
> start worrying about a draft. Increasing pay (more than inflation) to
> reduce incentives-to-leave for those already in uniform would help.
> Bush has done that all four years, but his predecessor did so only
> twice in eight years (1996 and 2000... gee, what do those years have
> in common...) so there is still a long way to go. Improving housing
> (especially for the Army) would also help. There is a lot more
> streamlining that can be done, to make more effective use of the
> personnel we already have, but some of those (i.e., more base
> closures) will be painful and that's why they haven't been taken yet.
> Start talking about reinstating the draft, and they'll sound a helluva
> lot less painful to our Congresscritters.
>
> Brian

Just catching up on this latest rumor.

I was told by a friend of a friend who knows someone with the Kerry
campaign that apparently they are in negotiations with the subcutaneous
chip company to implant a national ID chip in everyone in the country.
Apparently they have some scheme where if you don't have the chip you
won't get vital government services such as medical care - something they
have plans of nationalizing by 2006. The other rumor was that they have
decided to name the system after a rollercoaster in Cincinnati called the
"Beast". My friend mumbled something about there being six hundred and
sixty six people in the first test group to get their markings.

Did I mention that John Kerry was in Vietnam?

O'

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