btween age 18 to 42?

[Ttessa]

Mandatory Draft Bill

Snuck In - To Be

Debated 6-6-6

On February 14, 2006, Congressman Charles Rangel (Democrat - NY) introduced a bill (Universal National Service Act of 2006 - HR 4752 IH) aiming at drafting everyone - men and women alike - from the ages of 18 to 42 into the military for a minimum period of 2 years.

Or to quote the bill: "To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."

The House is to convene on June 6 (06/06/06] to debate and possibly adopt this bill, that is, unless a vast public outcry succeeds in derailing this insanity, which you can do by writing a letter of protest to your congress person through

http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm or http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Phone calls are even better. The numbers of all US Representatives are at:

http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.html

If you question the validity of this bill, go to:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4752 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4752

[krys]

Now that's just ducky!

18 - 42 eh? This must be the way to create new jobs. Take someone who's 38 and a first class nurse and pull her into the Military NOW. To bad if she has teenagers! Too bad whatever. But her job is now open for somebody else.

I'm not just picking on nurses....pick an occupation of your choice! That's a really good move if you want to kill the economy off altogether....draft the working people! How about all those 29 year old teachers, they don't get paid real well anyway....they'll never notice the pay drop....but then, who replaces them? It's not like we've got so many teachers that can't find jobs!(although in some areas, this is true)

And if they spare "the professionals", bye bye truck drivers, we don't really need pampers or fresh produce anyway. Bye bye electritians and road workers and plumbers and factory workers and grocery workers......

Pardon me, Congressman Rangal, you just made yourself the most hated person in the country. I hope you own a hard hat and a bullet proof vest because methinks you'd like to have them.

[markomalley]

Rangel did the same crap back in 2003. He snuck the bill in back in the beginning of 2003 and left it set. Then, as the 2004 election cycle started ramping up, rumors were introduced among the left wingers saying that Bush was going to bring back the draft. When somebody did a quick check, they saw that there was a draft bill sitting in Congress -- therefore, Bush was going to introduce the draft, of course (because it's Bush's fault...regardless of whether it is or not) .

The draft and bills were discussed here a while ago in the following threads:

Is the draft going to come back?

US Soldiers Running Off to Canada

Troop Tells off Murtha & Co.

The funny thing is that the 'pubs let the bill sit until the 'dems started trying to use it against them in the days before the election. They then brought it up for a floor vote. No committee. No debate. Just a vote.

Of course, the bill failed.

Here's the funny part: Even Rangel voted against it (his own bill!)

So if Charlie Rangel wants to try the same stupid type of trick, let him!

[dmiller]

Here's the funny part: Even Rangel voted against it (his own bill!)

Job security. <_<