On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:19:21PM -0500, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> > But I wouldn't delude myself about who pays. The burden always falls
> > on the poor. And even under a universal system,
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> which of course our system never is. There's a reason it was called
> Selective service. We're too big a country; we never needed more than a
> fraction of the cohort available. And that was then. Nowadays with the
> new automation even the smaller European countries who really believed in
> universal service on principle are giving it up for a smaller, more
> professional force. So a draft would be even more selective.
>
> Michael
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