Hi Bob There is an identical bill, HR163 which was introduced by a Republican and has 14 co-sponsors. National service would be a good opportunity for some serious pork-barrelling, which appears to be the main function of governments at the moment (not just US I must say, see the UK governments PFI projects). Norman -----Original Message----- From: thechat-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thechat-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Bob Davis Sent: 02 June 2004 21:35 To: The evolt.org social mailing list Subject: Re: [thechat] The draft On Jun 2, 2004, at 1:32 PM, Norman wrote: > Not the one much beloved by the Americans.....but the other one > they're hoping to bring back: > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00089:@@@L&summ2=m& > > Is this old news? And whats the chance of this or HR163 getting > passed? > I think the support can maybe be measured by the number of Cosponsors listed - None. 1. I don't think we have money for a military/national service so large. 2. we don't need it. 3. we have a very good military precisely because it is a professional military (just my opinion). I doubt it'll get past committee. What's odd is that he's a Dem. bob ___________________________________ thechat mailing list: you could trot a mouse across it. Well, an anorexic mouse. thechat at lists.evolt.org http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thechat http://lists.evolt.org/thechatarchive/ ____ More of this rubbish in realtime on #evolt on irc.evolt.org and at http://spool.evolt.org.uk/ ____ Please support the community that supports you. Give your bit to evolt.org at: http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/