re abolish selective service 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 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 overwight overdue overbudget it was supposed to carry tanks new tanks are now too big for the airplane scrap the seawolf ssn nuclear submarine the breakup of the ussr has left us with a number of sticky military problems but none of them will require god s gift to submarines ground the b stealth bomber i m sure it s a great airplane that will do everything its designers said but at half a gigabuck a copy we can t afford for even one to crash and airplanes do crash elmo zumwalt said it best years ago high low a mix of a few extremely capable weapons systems and a lot of cheaper moderate capability systems ken mitchell the powers not delegated to the united states by the kmitchel netcom com constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are citrus heights ca reserved to the states respectively or to the people
