re abolish selective service kmitchel netcom com kenneth c mitchell writes dave borden borden head cfa harvard edu wrote the selective service registration should be abolished to start with the draft is immoral whether you agree with that or not we don t have one now and military experts agree that the quality of the armed forces is superior with a volunteer army than with draftees finally the government has us on many lists in many computers the irs social security admistration and motor vehicle registries to name a few and it can find us if it needs to maintaining yet another list of people is an utter waste of money and time let s axe this whole department and reduce the deficit a little bit i m really surprised clinton hasn t already tried to do this he seems to want to tackle other irrelevant issues first so why not this one as well let me say this about that as a retired navy officer i agree cut it but let s not stop there eliminate the c transport wrong we need its capability sure it has its problems very few airplanes haven t but getting rid of something we need is not the answer what do you want to do start over a rebuild a new airplane from scatch it ll have its problems as well and there will be calls again for it to be scrapped the other option is to try to extend the life of the c s and c s that are getting extremely old scrap the seawolf ssn nuclear submarine ground the b stealth bomber it ll cost jobs but i m for it we especially don t need a b the ssn i know litttle about fpa
