JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

The military complex has gotten so large it's no longer simply about training young men and women to defend us. In essence the military has become a huge corporation with bureaucrats and politicians using portions for profit and votes. Trump will have to be one hell of a business man to straighten out the process. Our rank and file is made from the best people I have ever met. The bureaucrats, not so much.

badbobby Loc: texas

the problem with that
conscription
and you know that it wouldn't get the ultra rich or the politicians sons and daughters
where there is lots of money or lots of power
there is always a way out
that doesn't mean I don't think it is a good idea

GodFollower

Badbobby,
The solution is simple, DRAFT EVERY SON AND DAUGHTER of every elected official FIRST and then the children of ther rest of the population, starting with the weathiest and working down so that the poorest would be drafted LAST with NO EXCLUSIONS PERIOD! And that wealth to be calculated from their GROSS income with no deductions at all! And their children to be drafted from the eldest child to the youngest! Problem solved! Any elected official who does not agree with this should be charged with TREASON!
Now that's a bright idea
Any one else agree with this? Give it a

Paybacktimeishere

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And I thank you for your support!
Semper Fi!

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

One of the whines and wails of the grievously uninformed, AKA The Progressives, was over George Bush's "unfunded war." I mean these people are so woefully ignorant that they must have thought that before we could legitimately go to war we had to save up the money in our little war savings account. Of course we know that it is the Congress that appropriated the funds. I've still got stamps from WW2 that when enough were saved they could be cashed in for a US Savings Bond to support the war. Understand Obama's Fed is no longer honoring some of those old bonds today. In this age of Obomanomics, if we had need and cause to go to war with China we'd have to borrow the money from them to build up our military before we could fight them, thanks to Barack! Your leading from behind strategy will define your legacy. In the military we called your style of leadership, cowardice! Things are about to change abruptly.

KiraSeer2016

Johnson didn't wage war, he "escalated conflicts." And then realized he couldn't figure out how to end the war. Thus he declined to run again, in 1968. Nixon ended that "dirty Asian war" (Peace with honor), to the detriment of the Vietnamese.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Bless you General Kelley. Semper Fi.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

[quote=JFlorio]I wish Congress would pass a temporary war tax on goods and services. The tax could only be added when troops are in harms way in either a declared war or conflict. Every US citizen should have skin in the game. Maybe then people would pay attention to the sacrifice of a few. [[/quote]

I like it but as is every tax they pass even if a temporary tax as income tax was to once be, they become permanent taxes and we never know where the money goes or what it is truly used for...

Soon enough it is grouped together just as a tax and then forgotten....

How do we insure this special tax is only for the purpose intended and not stolen from the revenue generated like they have done in SS and MEDICARE??

I would Gladly pay it if there was some positive assurance it in fact was used for our men...