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.
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.