Gunny
Gold Member
He wasn't blaming the current administration, Gunny. He didn't even mention the current admin.
He was pointing out exactly the problem the last time we had a draft. (mostly the Ds were in charge during that period, BTW)
I went to school with fairly well off kids...especially during my primary school years.
Of those more affluent kids I went to school with as a boy, not one of them got drafted...not even when the lottery was put into effect,
Not one of them was drafted, gunny.
Not one.
Who did get drafted? Just the middle class and poorer kids, naturally.
Strollingbones has a point, in my opinion.
I beg to differ. This is a quote of the last sentence of the post I responded to:
Look at the members of the current admin who avoid the draft and how they avoided it.
As far as the rest of your post, you're preaching to the choir. I said the same thing, different words.
The only difference being that i responded to his last sentence by pointing out that the privileged dodging conscription by one means or another is a time-honored tradition in this country, not just something that the "current administration" pulled off. The preceeding administration managed to pull off the same thing.
IMO, strollingbones ruins his own opinion by tossing in some partisan crap at the end; which, was the only thing i disagreed with.