[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
" 
" On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:19:07AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
" > He proposed a draft so that politicians (whose own kids
" > would also be elligible for military service) would be far
" > more cautious when waging war. It is always easier when
" > somebody else's kids are doing the dying to go gun ho.

nit: -gung- ho, chinese for something like 'good luck' [gung hey fat
choy ~= happy new year].  entered english in ww2.

" Now if only we could get Congress to enroll in Social Security instead
" of being exempted like they are now...

like they exempted themselves from equal rights and fair labor until
about 5 years ago, when the scandal broke.

i generally think plato's a crock, but one thing he got right is that
lawmakers must not be able to exempt themselves from the laws they
pass.
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