Reply #1: We have a reserve, honey. They're in Iraq. [View All]

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I like your "with pay." I thought it was a stipend. In other words, lunch money.

But it's a nice thought, having them volunteer to bankrupt their families like that. btw, if they're killed in the fires, what's the compensation? If they're crippled for life? If they merely need years of rehabilitation? Get back to me on it.

Me, I favor a national conscription where every able-bodied person helps out this country for 18 months and no volunteer nonsense about it. It isn't the responsibility of other people to make this nation work, it's ours.