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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs the jobs plan for rust belt a draft?
War with North Korea, Iran and Syria, somebody needs to fight them. So no jobbers, there may be your job.
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Is the jobs plan for rust belt a draft? (Original Post)
lonestarnot
Nov 2016
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Good point. He did say he's for reinstating the draft.
Truthfully, only see that happening if white wingers' kids get an exemption.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)2. That exemption is only for richie rich.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)3. That's the Republicans' go to job plan.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)4. Start with the reddest states and work our way up.
Many people in the South take pride sending their kids to die in wars anyway.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
My brother worked with an old physicist from Germany many years ago. He observed the rise of the Nazis. He used to warn my brother and other co-workers that the USA would have a fascist leader like Hitler someday if it continued it's deep love affair with the military, as Germany did in their pre-Nazi history.