perotista - I too can remember when they changed it and, when they did, I agreed. The problem is that now there is no draft, our military is getting fewer and fewer members but we have yet to goto the draft. I have problems with that one on several levels. The simple fact is that they should have given the early votes to members, or ex-members of the military and left the rest to grow up on their own before they vote (for, again, lots of reasons and one of them is that they seem, for the most part, to be damned fools and pretty clueless).

As time goes on I become more and more convinced that the voting American Public is a bit shy when it comes to common sense. I have no doubt that many would say I was wrong but I am unlikely to change my view. Its like the so-called homeless. We do have a LOT of homeless but we also have a LOT of bums that we call homeless but are not. The other day a woman asked me if I would give her 5 dollars. I told her to get a job as there are a LOT of jobs out there! She said nothing, just went to ask somebody else for 5 dollars. Its even worse than that. In Seattle they took over an entire hotel and put the "homeless in three". The Seattle police will not go into that building without 6 to 12 fellow police for their own safety. I realize that this is a problem and that there really are homeless but, I think, just as many bums (I will skip the drug thing). My wife just came back from a trip to Germany and Poland. She said they have no homeless and she asked about it. There are some but not many. Government are almost trying to do something about the homeless with stuff like "little houses" which is no real solution but very cute.

One can go on and on about this kind of stuff. I am not even sure there is a solution to the 'homeless' but they are spending piles of money to 'fix' the problem and most solutions are simply not working and there is yet something else and there are thousands and they vote! I sometimes talk to them and ask about their politics. You would be amazed at the number who are going to vote for Trump! As I say, I have no real solution but the whole mess, I think, is an example of a voting public which, for a large group, I do not believe is competent and everybody is getting to experience the result.

If I was in charge I would institute the draft tomorrow unless the person who was draft age was in school and taking a course which would put him/her into a job needed by the nation, like, for instance, doctors (which, I think, government should underwrite - to become a doctor, in the United States, costs hundreds of thousands of dollars!). I know at least 4 doctors who have been unable to pay their debt to government due to the way the debts are configured which are impossible to keep up with. Canada, for instance, put their doctors through school, basically for free if they give gov x years when they graduate.

We have, basically, a government which, for many, makes absolutely no sense (I am one of them). When I write to my politicians they used to address whatever I had to say. Now they reply with a request for money and little else.

I have come to the conclusion that the United States is run by, basically, pure greed. This is one of the reasons that Trump exists. He makes no bones about his own greed and, unfortunately, a LOT of people admire him for that. More lunacy I guess.....

One last thing. I believe in our military bu there are problems there. Once is the simple fact that several years ago the Congress of the United States asked the military to have a serious investigation as to where their money goes and who gets what (there is a word for that but I have dementia (and had to look that up)). Anyway, every once in a while somebody in congress will wonder it what they wanted will ever be done. The fact is that it won't. This is simply one of the problems we are living with. There are a LOT of them. Our problems are not just the Presidency, one can go on and on about what we need and many think Trump will fix it but there is little he claims he wants to do which fixes a damned thing. All he really wants to do is to get the folks he think have hurt him and little else. What we REALLY need is a new, REAL, Hoover Commission (was responsible for no fewer than 7 major government fixes). That actually worked. They, amongst other things, asked everybody working in government what their job was, etc. They saved an incredible amount of money and cleaned up the mess. Now we depend on those working for got to run gov. We gotta a little problem.........

Apologies, I got off the track and carried away...............