America can’t get out of its own way these days. Too busy being had by those who want to pit us against each other for reasons that have nothing to do with what America needs to survive.
I am a big fan of Freakonomics and have been listening to a backlog of their podcasts…..
It occurred to me that they should do one connecting the dots between the labor shortage mess we are in and the doing away of the draft 50 years ago.
Oh my, do I dare say? Well, I do say……
Of course there would be the usual draft dodgers. (Doesn’t anybody who sweated that number and then served their country remember draft dodgers? Geez. Seems to be quite a bit of amnesia surrounding that one. (ahem))
And, of course, I am not advocating for a war machine….
BUT, there was more to the draft than just that……
Now America has way too much undirected testosterone running around. If all that testosterone were to be channeled again, young men would have time to grow up and could be directed to find interests and talent and skills that could earn them a good living later on in civilian life. Teach ‘em to build bridges, etc.
I could go on and on about reasons why I think a form of a draft could help America’s future tremendously, but I need to not bog down in another TOTV thread.
Just a thought…..but a damned good one, I think.
Boomer — who remembers when America used to grow men.
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Pogo was right.
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