H.R. 748: To require all persons 18-25 to do nat'l service

[The Annoyed Man]

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr748

H.R. 748: To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 to perform national service, either as a ...
... member of the uniformed services or as civilian service in a Federal, State, or local government program or with a community-based agency or community-based entity, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, to provide for the registration of women under the Military Selective Service Act, and for other purposes.

Introduced:
Feb 15, 2013 (113th Congress, 2013–2015)
Sponsor:
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY13]
Status:
Referred to Committee

STATUS
This bill was assigned to a congressional committee on February 15, 2013, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole.

PROGRESS
Introduced Feb 15, 2013
Referred to Committee Feb 15, 2013
Reported by Committee ...
Passed House ...
Passed Senate ...
Signed by the President ...
PROGNOSIS
3% chance of getting past committee.
1% chance of being enacted.

Only 11% of House bills made it past committee and only 2% were enacted in 2011–2013.

COSPONSORS
none
COMMITTEES
House Armed Services
The committee chair determines whether a bill will move past the committee stage.

Doesn't look like it has much support right now, but certainly worth keeping an eye on....

[SewTexas]

riiiiiight......

the man is decimating our military so he's going to force our children to work for him....oh, and btw, he can't afford to pay them there is a reason my son isn't going into the military, and it's only got a little bit to do with not really having the right personality.

[RX8er]

Rangle does not ever surprise me with the stuff he comes up with.....

[CowboyEngineer]

Never have understood how mandatory national service differs from indentured servitude. In times of war, it may be needed. Otherwise, it is just an attempt at indoctrination.

[jmra]

Not a snowflakes chance on the hottest BBQ pit in Texas.

[K.Mooneyham]

The overall "persona" of the current US military is somewhere between conservative and libertarian in nature. There are liberals and plenty of people who just don't care about politics in the military service, but they don't set the tone. Bills like this HR748 want to set up some parallel service whose persona the liberal-progressives could control. That way BHO might finally get some crew of Mao-style head-kickers (Cultural Revolution reference)...because the military we have right now, ain't going to do that stuff for him.

[E.Marquez]

Right I agree, seem evil for sure...
BHO and this nut job Kennedy must have gone to the same school of population control.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

How dare someone suggest Americans living in America be required to be a useful, contributing citizen to there country...

[anygunanywhere]

Right I agree, seem evil for sure...
BHO and this nut job Kennedy must have gone to the same school of population control.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

How dare someone suggest Americans living in America be required to be a useful, contributing citizen to there country...

Just because someone is contributing to what the government defines as national service does not mean that they are a contributing citizen to this country.

Government definition.

Government program.

The party in power determines everything.

If the national service persons are barry's brown shirts (barry's bovine soil© anygunanywhere 2013) then you can bet yer bottom dollar they are not doing anything to contributer to this country.

Finally, seeing as how scumball rangel is thte author, I'll bet a paycheck I am correct in my analysis.

Anygunanywhere

[Jaguar]

Right I agree, seem evil for sure...
BHO and this nut job Kennedy must have gone to the same school of population control.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

How dare someone suggest Americans living in America be required to be a useful, contributing citizen to there country...

Asking and mandating through federal law are two completely different things.

Where I now work they have some totally worthless flesh bags, I couldn't imagine these people serving anything beyond their own selfish desires. I would not wish them on civilian service, much less the military.

Rangle has been pushing this idiocy since I was in college, I had to write a response to his proposal for an English Proficiency Exam required to graduate. I was against it then and I'm against it now.

[E.Marquez]

Right I agree, seem evil for sure...
BHO and this nut job Kennedy must have gone to the same school of population control.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

How dare someone suggest Americans living in America be required to be a useful, contributing citizen to there country...

Just because someone is contributing to what the government defines as national service does not mean that they are a contributing citizen to this country.

Government definition.

Government program.

The party in power determines everything.

If the national service persons are barry's brown shirts (barry's bovine soil© anygunanywhere 2013) then you can bet yer bottom dollar they are not doing anything to contributer to this country.

Finally, seeing as how scumball rangel is thte author, I'll bet a paycheck I am correct in my analysis.

Anygunanywhere

Not saying I agree with the specific verbiage of the bill as proposed.. I DISAGREE with the sentiment I read here in response to the bill.



If I somehow miss understood what others wrote above in response to this bill, then fine.. But from this side of the screen..
Discouraging at best, disappointing for sure..