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Obviously we need to up the incentives. How about better pay, properly equiped soldiers for the field, real veteran's benefits for a start. A draft doesn't make sense (to me at least), just go back to our roots: capitalsim and free markets.
If you up the pay and benefits while being truthful about length of duty, you will have your pick of the litter. If we need more officers, likewise, offer college students or whatever elites we have seious bonuses.
It's silly how we need to recruit but aren't willing to pay for it. Well, we get what we pay for.
How do we pay for it? Clean up Congress. Trim the fat. Any company that beneifts from contracts in Iraq should help defray the costs. Also what happened to all the oil money that was going to pay for the war? Maybe the Defense Department is due for an audit. There has to be waste there.
There is no right to privacy. I know it seems weird but it's nowhere to be found on the Constitution. I think the Founding Fathers at the time were more concerned with property rights, taxes. Also, I'm not sure privacy was a big concept back then, especially given the Puritan (Protestant?) propensity to be involved on one another's affairs. Again, I'm not too sure, but this is what I rememebr from American Government class (a long time ago). I believe it was common for people to peek in on their neighbors and "tattle" if they weren't in church etc. At least in the New England region.
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