http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/11/01/ted-strickland-speaks-you-interpret/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:04:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/11/01/ted-strickland-speaks-you-interpret/comment-page-1/#comment-43888 NixGuy.com » Strickland Jumps In With Kerry Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:22:00 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/11/01/ted-strickland-speaks-you-interpret/#comment-43888 [...] Wow!  Bizzyblog has a good paraphrase of what Strickland said yesterday: But if you look at the people who are serving in our military today, you will find a disproportionate share come from small town America, rural areas, and they are disproportionately being called upon to defend this country. You know as well as I do that there may be one or two members of the 535 members of the House and Senate that have a son or daughter in Iraq. Most of them do not, and that’s true of a lot of young people who come from more privileged backgrounds. [...] [...] Wow!  Bizzyblog has a good paraphrase of what Strickland said yesterday: But if you look at the people who are serving in our military today, you will find a disproportionate share come from small town America, rural areas, and they are disproportionately being called upon to defend this country. You know as well as I do that there may be one or two members of the 535 members of the House and Senate that have a son or daughter in Iraq. Most of them do not, and that’s true of a lot of young people who come from more privileged backgrounds. [...]

]]> http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/11/01/ted-strickland-speaks-you-interpret/comment-page-1/#comment-43877 LargeBill Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:40:52 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/11/01/ted-strickland-speaks-you-interpret/#comment-43877 I thought these libs were pro-choice. Isn't the decision to join the military a choice? I could give a half dozen different reason why a draft would be a bad idea. I'll stick with the main reason. A draft is mainly used to fill the infantry. Our military is now so high tech that we need the folks who enlist for longer period to get the advanced training (Nuclear power, electronics, aviation maintenance). A draftee is not expected to hang around so their training is very basic (which end of the rifle is which). We have the greatest military in history due in large part to the fact that they are all there voluntarily. I thought these libs were pro-choice. Isn’t the decision to join the military a choice? I could give a half dozen different reason why a draft would be a bad idea. I’ll stick with the main reason. A draft is mainly used to fill the infantry. Our military is now so high tech that we need the folks who enlist for longer period to get the advanced training (Nuclear power, electronics, aviation maintenance). A draftee is not expected to hang around so their training is very basic (which end of the rifle is which). We have the greatest military in history due in large part to the fact that they are all there voluntarily.

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