archive.today • Persistent Inflation Threatens Biden's Agenda - The New York Times
Supply chain disruptions, a worker shortage and pain at the gasoline pump have made inflation an economic and political problem for the White House.
archive.today • Persistent Inflation Threatens Biden's Agenda - The New York Times
Supply chain disruptions, a worker shortage and pain at the gasoline pump have made inflation an economic and political problem for the White House.
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Imagine being a teenage chud joining the Marines right out of high school thinking you're gonna do cool operator shit, only to get owned in a John Deere factory
Not even, we'll see Marine helicopter pilots reassigned to running grills in a KFC before this is over.
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Instead of being a cool operator, you get to be an owner-operator!
Bringing back the draft would be suicidal. I see prisoners being conscripted en masse (or even more en masser than now) instead.
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They have recognized it once before. But yeah, who knows, maybe Vietnam is distant enough now that the state is willing to try again with it.
In the fucking 70s, when Boomers were all showing up on the voting rolls.
Now they're retired and the majority of young people are unseasonably tan. Now is the ideal moment to re-institute Press Gangs and start shoving high school drop-outs into the military corps.
zero chance of a draft coming back because it actually makes people pay attention a little too much for their interests
This war machine isn't going to run itself.
Politicians from Mitt Romney to Beto O'Rourke have already expressed support for Mandatory Service requirements on high schoolers. I could very easily see someone like Dan Crenshaw or Mikie Sherrill slide out a turd of a provision that makes Service a requirement for state college admission or access to UI benefits or even Social Security / Medicare.
I don't know if we'll ever see "The Draft" as we knew it in the 70s. But what about a law forcing unemployed people with outstanding student loans to work off the debt in the National Guard? I suspect that could be made politically palatable easily enough.
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We badly need a Remind Me bot.
With the amount of recruiter activity happening lately, it seems like the military might be short on people too... So, having do jobs domestically would could force them to cut back on imperialist adventures elsewhere (hopefully)
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Yep, that's what's going on with the whole student loans/eviction moratorium/extended UI. You ungrateful leaches took advantage of the system, you refuse to deliver the treats, so now you're gonna suffer until Gen Xers get their fried meat in fusion sauce served promptly, with a SMILE. We simply can't have nice things if you misbehave when you get them!
One of the largest professions in the military is vehicle operator, so they could really could put troops in trucks if they wanted to.
Bidens Already floated the national gaurd.
Unironically expect us to go to war with China in the next 2-3 years in large part "to give those kids something to do".
We privatized the MIC to such a degree that it isn't even a "War with China" we're gearing up for. It's another wave of post-9/11 paranoia that can justify enriching the assholes who profiteer.
We're going to send aircraft carriers out into the South Pacific to do donuts and fire rockets into the air while CNN does another six weeks of "Shock and Awe!" coverage. If you don't cheer loud enough, you'll be booted off the airwaves and banned from social media. And then we'll cancel Social Security to pay for another salvo.
Nah, we are increasingly in a Britain pre-WW1 situation. Lots of middle-class fancylads with no skills and nothing for them to do all day, and the imperial profits aren't big enough to just pay them to push paper.