Today, there is no draft, we have an entirely volunteer military so there is no protest or dissent from young Americans or their parents. So, if there is no danger of being drafted, it follows that there is no great opposition to the wars and the destruction that they are causing in foreign nations and to our economic stability. Let sleeping dogs lie.
Even though there is no draft I have seen pictures of U.S. military recruiters going into high schools in America and testing the physical prowess of teenage students. While I believe that colleges should make up their own mind about letting recruiters talk to students, I also believe that these recruiters have no business whatsoever in our high schools and should be barred.
What's happening in America cannot continue. We as a nation and a society are in deep trouble. Our economy is collapsing as our jobs continue to be outsourced to China and other overseas nations. Our national debt is out of control. While this nation is hemorrhaging and in a downward spiral, we simply cannot continue to give the Pentagon over one trillion dollars each and every year for conducting unnecessary, unjustifiable wars to expand our military empire. We are destroying the remaining wealth of America.
This passive, submissive silence of the American people must be broken; if we do not wake up, if we cannot rise up in peaceful protest and dissension, then we will be accepting and actually condoning what is going on and it is we who will be directly responsible for the demise of our once great nation.
Michael Payne
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