re abolish selective service muellerm vuse vanderbilt edu marc mueller writes considering that clinton received a draft notice and got out of it he admits it the political feasibility of him abolishing it is not something he would be inclined to risk any extra exposure on as a libertarian with a small l who voted for clinton i think that he should abolish the selective service and the draft if his conscience forbade him to go to war in vietnam it should forbid him to perpetuate this system of government sanctioned slavery agreed congress took money from nasa and fha to fund the second seawolf the shipyards are still building los angeles class submarines and there is a lack of asw foes to contend with the navy is considering reducing the number of attack subs to navy times and that would entail getting rid of or mothballing some of the current los angeles class politically general dynamics is in connecticut and we will get seawolf subs whether we need them or not if our government would pay attention to serious domestic issues the economy and choose to stay out of other people s wars iraq bosnia somalia we would not be in this fix an anyway couldn t the jobs be replaced by improving our domestic situation i m not for continued deficit spending but if clinton and congress want to spend i d rather they improve the infrastructure than fight other people s wars in addition more bases need to be closed probably long beach naval station and others the navy is talking about three main bases on each coast being required to home port a total fleet of ships the question is whether les aspin and clinton will be able to face down a pork happy congress a novel idea getting away from naval bases what about refurbishing decommissioned air force bases as airports this would be so much cheaper than building them from the ground up denver s new airport is one of the most appalling examples of pork barreling and cronyism i have seen in my lifetime even if no more airports are needed i m sure bill gates or ross perot would love to have their own private airfields and the money from their purchases could be applied to the public debt jon dunn all e mail flames will be deleted without reading
