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A Modest Proposal — For the Draft

April 18, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Jules Crittenden
Saltherring
2008-04-18 11:40:52

Some good ideas contained in this article, but I doubt a draft would work. Some of the reasons are noted by Larry Rasczak above, when he writes of our young generation’s appalling moral, physical and mental deficiencies. Is there any doubt as to why? The greatest percentage were raised with no boundaries, moral principles, work ethic or disciplinary consequences. The meager percentage of late-teen and twenty-somethings that did complete public school are products of a dumbed-down, agenda-driven form of indoctrination that was anything but an educational experience. Masses of tattooed, pierced and shaven-headed knuckleheads are locked in county jails and prisons, or roam the streets in gangs, waiting for their multiple arrest warrants to catch up with them. Many, well into their twenties and thirties, hang out in parents’ basements addicted to meth and mindless video games. All the while employers and unions in my state, Washington, scream for willing minds and bodies to fill the demand for construction/industrial trades workers. It makes one wish we’d keep the illegals and ship much our own youth to Mexico.