US lawmaker warns cuts may revive military draft

Activist Post
September 21, 2011

A key US lawmaker leading the fight against military spending cuts has warned that dramatic new reductions could force the United States to shift from an all-volunteer military and reinstate the draft.

House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon, a Republican, told Fox News television on Monday that lawmakers “need to understand what it’s going to mean to keep an all-volunteer force.”

“Do we want to reinstitute the draft? Some of the cuts we’re talking about would take over 200,000 out of end strength from our military,” McKeon said in remarks also reported in the Washington Post on Tuesday.

The lawmaker said that an August debt-limit deal included $465 billion of defense spending cuts over ten years, and warned that “it’ll be over another $500 billion” in automatic cuts to military programs if a new “supercommittee” fails to find $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over ten years in a few weeks.

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16 Responses to “US lawmaker warns cuts may revive military draft”

  1. The draft was ended in order to force poor people in the military and to allow rich kids to have a free pass. To say the draft might come back is an empty threat. During the Vietnam war the entire country was in the streets protesting about the war. And Walter Cronkite coming out against the war on national news helped to hasten its’ end. Now we are in several countries but the average American doesn’t give a damn as long as he has sports and dancing with the stars on tv. Part of that is because of the lack of a draft and also the fact that the press has been neutered. They pee only where they are told. Also our causality rate is much lower due to our better technology.
    If the draft was reinstated any one that had a kid of draft able age would be marching on D.C. with pitch forks and nooses in hand. The surest way to start a revolution in America is to tell Joe Sixpack and his soccer mom that their kids have to get their ass shot off in some foreign war. The N.W.O. does not want to do that so there is not going to be a draft.
    The only situation I can see where a draft might be reinstated would be if our enemies managed to Nuke New York. And that is not going to happen.

  2. Maybe if you can cut the Pentagon budget even more, then we wouldn’t have the money to go fight endless and needless wars all over the globe.
    One thing for certain no matter what budget is agreed upon, no rich persons or politicians sons and daughters will ever have to serve.

  3. Something BIG is coming..

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  4. i aint serving no jew banksters. if anyone tries to force me there will be a shootout in my front yard. only thing im willing to die for is freedom, not opium, nwo, oil. there is way more of us then them, so fk the rothchilds. looks like they bit of more then they can chew. good. lets end this elitist power grip over our lives. lets call for a tax boycot, lets stop banking with corrupt banksters, grow as much of your own food as possible and buy local, buy made in usa. BIG THANKS TO FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, LIBYA. looks like nwo is stuck. oh and fk the average idiot in the military fighting unconstitutional wars they are not heroes, but sellouts.

    • this is all true FBN. cut the military budget so severely they only have enough remaining to come home and actually defend their own country.

    • I agree fight back now, Soldiers used to be heroes when defernding the republic, but wars of CONQUEST and MURDER and murdering women and children ruined their image. They dont want to be there anyways, but they take the low IQ no college crowd and imprint their young minds. Theyre coming back here to be cops and TSA and it will get ugly before it improves.

  5. WHY the hell would budget cuts reintroduce a draft when everything is currently voluntarily done!? Draft = more taxpayer money for administration, Voluntary = …free.

  6. If ever anyone attempts to draft my son I will start a revolution myself.

    • Ditto Graeme Bell…..F’ck the Government and F’ck the Congressman or Senator that remotely tries to pass something like a draft.

  7. Hahahaha NWO FAIL you cant make people serve evil and i dare you to try it. A false flag to pretext MAKING my children serve their evil hahahaha ya wont live long. )o,,,

  8. GOOD! DRAFT ‘EM! It’s the spark that the non-existant anti-war protests need today after 10 years of illegal wars and death.

    Draft those suburban college kids, and those suburban soccer moms kids, and see the wars over in a year! Soccer mom will be right out there in the street protesting, “You’re not gonna get my kid!” And it’s over. The wars are over. The globalists war machine will be broken. And a new hard core beginning to take back the government will be established with protests in the streets of America.

    They (globalists) don’t want that.

    We need a draft just to get the country involved with this corrupt government’s illegal wars and activities so the country will finally protest against it in the streets and get this globalist crime syndicate derailed big time.

  9. in other words people are sick of serving the banksters, have looked at it closely and decided dieng for some pencil kneck wall street scumbag ISNT WORTH IT.

    send the politicians and the banksters instead and ALL WARS will end. effin bean counters let em kill each other for a change and leave the rest of us out of it. This life time next life time SAY NO to the masters of the COIN.

  10. How about this. BRING THEM HOME AND END THE BULLSHIT OCCUPATIONAL WARS! easy for slimebag politicians to tell people to fight wars as a result of their failed policy. Fuckin cowards.

    Also, I love the term “mission creep”. It’s a term thrown around (and used as an excuse) by dipshit pundits and is defined by the simple fact that there is a mission to begin with.

    Here’s a clue. THESE WARS HAVE NO MISSION! THEY ARE ALL ABOUT OCCUPATION AND CONTROL! Which means they have no end unless we get someone who has some balls to bring them all home! RON PAUL!

    I’m tired of this bullshit.

    • And profits.

  11. In the first place, a paid military is not a volunteer military, it’s a mercenary military. People will only volunteer to defend a nation worth defending. Is America? We used to have a country worth defending – the brave men who fought the Brits weren’t getting paid. I know that the people who have hijacked this nation know this: that no one will volunteer to fight for them. For even the totally brain-washed sense instinctively that this country does not truly belong to the American people but to the hijackers.

    So what shall we captives say, that we would rather surrender and do willingly the bidding of our captors than be pricked by the goad? May it never be. They have tried with indoctrination, entertainment, and soy to make us a nation of beta males, but with this one they have failed. So as for me, I will dig in my heels, and the Balaam who thinks he holds my bridle will have to suffer the talking ass.

  12. I thought the military had gone gay for pay.

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