Off Topic (Important Legislation)

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Heidi Tandy <lists at h...> 
wrote:

> 
> Just some thoughts on a complex situation.
> 
> Heidi

Wow.  Just reading your reasons demontrates to me how different the 
perceptions of this generation are from those of the last conscript 
era.  This current draft legislation ids the brainchild of Charlie 
Rangell (D- NY) who reasons that all the current votes to go to war 
would come out differently if the children of "normal" people would 
be at risk.  He was not advocating the return of the draft on its 
merits.  As for me, an old conscript, I think the nation would 
benefit from having a significant percentage of people in the armed 
forces who are not "lifers' and don't want to be there.

Heidi is right in that the military doesn't want to spend their money 
on conscripts, who aren't anywhere near as effective as professional 
troops-- but that is a completely different question.

Haggridd
Viet Nam 1971-1972