Charlie Rangel’s poverty draft

Flagwaver sends us a link to the link to Charlie Rangel’s latest attempt to restore the draft called the “Universal National Service Act“. Basically, it calls for a military draft supplemented by a draft into “civilian service in a Federal, State, or local government program or with a community-based agency or community-based entity”. If I read the thing correctly, there are no exemptions, except attending high school, attending college and a hardship/disability. By the way, the President gets to decide whether you’re drafted into the military or the civilian program, if you don’t make a choice before you’re drafted.

The period of service is for two years, and there’s no conscientious objector exemption, for those of you so inclined. But Rangel explains the purpose of his bill;

It is the obligation of every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States, who is between the ages of 18 and 25 to perform a period of national service as prescribed in this title unless exempted under the provisions of this title.

Seriously? Is that in the Constitution? Since when are we subordinate to the government who now levies arbitrary obligations on us…us, you know the People who formed the more perfect union, established justice, etc….

Funny how it’s the democrats who have trying to subordinate the population to the threat of a draft since Richard Nixon rendered it asunder. It was Jimmy Carter, who raped the military of training, pay and equipment, who restored draft registration when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and he suddenly realized that no one wanted to join the military. Most young people don’t register for the draft these days anyway, even with no threat of a draft, so how is Rangel going to round up the folks to register?

And why legislate for a draft now, unless they plan on making military service Jimmy Carter-painful again. Yeah, you folks who weathered the Clinton years have no idea how bad it can get.

All they’re going to get in the first few rounds are the derelicts who didn’t finish high school, and the poor and uneducated who can’t get into college for whatever reason. So, yeah, this is a really great idea whose time has come. Or. Not.

Category: Congress sucks, Liberals suck