As a certifiable draft dodger myself (with paperwork to prove it: USA vs. RSR, 71-CR-71), I rise up in defense of people who don’t want to fight in wars started by the rich and/or fanatic to aggrandize themselves. To quote Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), first woman elected to Congress and the only one to vote against US entry into both WW1 and WW2: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
Or, as the bumper sticker points out: “Rich man’s war, poor man’s blood”
What if they gave a war and no one came?
It’s ironic that all the free-marketeers who are always saying that the price of labor should be determined exclusively by supply and demand are so eager to pay people miserable wages to put their lives on the line in the military and to force them to serve if they can’t find enuf willing warm bodies to fill their ready supply of coffins.
As a certifiable draft dodger myself (with paperwork to prove it: USA vs. RSR, 71-CR-71), I rise up in defense of people who don’t want to fight in wars started by the rich and/or fanatic to aggrandize themselves. To quote Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), first woman elected to Congress and the only one to vote against US entry into both WW1 and WW2: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
Or, as the bumper sticker points out: “Rich man’s war, poor man’s blood”
What if they gave a war and no one came?
It’s ironic that all the free-marketeers who are always saying that the price of labor should be determined exclusively by supply and demand are so eager to pay people miserable wages to put their lives on the line in the military and to force them to serve if they can’t find enuf willing warm bodies to fill their ready supply of coffins.