College friends and family need to know a couple of important things.

[mahina]

1. Being in college does not protect you if a draft is called. The rules have been changed. If a draft is initiated, seniors can finish the year and must then report for duty. All others can finish the semester or quarter and then must report for duty. You have to look for this info on the selective service website but it is there in black and white.

2. Most other developed countries have free or heavily subsidized college tuition. You don't have to go into heavy debt to get a degree. Otherwise very few would do so. It's amazing that as many people here go to college as do considering the incredible financial burden it places on us.

It's about our priorities as a society. If these two facts were widely known- rather, when these two facts are widely known, no election will be safe for the Republicans.

Then there's healthcare but young people are not as worried about that yet.

[MADem]

1. But....but....but.....!

Ya go into the military, and you can get MONEY FOR COLLEGE!!!

Yee haw!

If you make it home to spend it on tuition, that is...

[JDPriestly]

3. And if, while in the military you don't suffer disabling brain injuries.

[JVS]

2. Re: #2. They also have stricter requirments to get in to the universities and less spots available

including ristrictive limits on how many students may enter a particular program of study. If you live and Germany and want to study medicine you'd better be a fucking kick-ass rockstar of a student in HS.

[mahina]

4. Not such a bad thing if you think about it. But not so in all other nations.

It's no easy thing to get in to med school here either, but you're half a million bucks in the hole when you're done, and they are not.

In any case, there is going to be a worst doctor that graduates. How bad do you want him (or her) to be?

[Thothmes]

5. Protect from Draft

Unless you are enrolled in the last two years of an ROTC program

[mahina]

6. Sorry, don't understand your post.

Could you clarify your point please? Thanks a lot.