Reply #75: I can kinda respect what he's trying to do here, but

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I don't want to go into the military....period. I'm 20 and male, so I know I'm ripe draft age. I'll be done with college in may '06, but from what I hear, college deferments aren't what they once were. I guess I am a part of the white, upper middle class that he's talking about, but I know for damn sure that I or my parents don't have any 'connections' we can use to keep me out of the army. My dad is a non-political state government worker, and my mom runs a local branch of a graduate school, they do well for themselves (their salaries are about $50k each) but I don't have a damn clue what they could do to keep me out of the military. Let me be clear, I don't believe there's any reason I shouldn't have to serve when others are conscripted, I am vehemently against conscripted service for anyone.

I don't know enough about DC politicking to know what effects this bill will have in the end. Obviously Rangel doesn't *actually* want a draft, but I hope you can understand how nervous it makes me that a draft bill is actually being introduced.