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Crunching the Numbers. Back to the two pieces of legislation I mention at the beginning of this article: Remember, both bills would require military service (or community service for those who don't medically qualify for military service) for everyone between the ages of 20 and 26. According to the Selective Service, there are currently 11 million men eligible for the draft in that age-range. However, both bills apply to women as well, so about 22 million would be required to serve. Keep in mind that these bills do not just require a portion of them to be drafted, they require everyone to serve.
With all due respect to the good senator and representative, they're full of it, and they know it. There is absolutely no way this country could afford a military with 22 million people serving. Rangel and Hollings introduced the legislation to make a political point (they are against the war in Iraq), not because they think the bills have any chance of passing. They can't pass, and the congressmen know it. Let's do some simple arithmetic:
For the sake of simpler mathematics, we'll assume that all 22 million "draftees" are serving in the grade of E-1 (the lowest enlisted grade). They won't be, of course, but it makes the math easier. An E-1 in today's military starts off with a base pay of $1193.40 per month. $1193.40 multiplied by 22 million comes to $26,254,800,000. That's a payroll of 26 BILLION dollars per month, just in the basic pay. Multiply that by 12, and it's a yearly payroll of $315,057,600,000 (315 BILLION dollars!).
Well, if we have a draft, we don't need to pay that much, right? Okay, assume we give these 22 million troops "slave wages," and just pay them $500 per month. That would still equal a base-pay expense of $12,500,000,000 (12 BILLION dollars) per month, or $150,000,000,000 (150 BILLION dollars) per year.
Let's not forget that we have to feed these troops. It costs the military about $150 per month to feed an enlisted member (assuming they eat all meals in the chow hall). So, we'll have to add $39,600,000,000 (39 BILLION dollars) to our annual military budget for food.
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Even his numbers are dumb as fuck.
He calculates everything based on drafting 22 million people all at once.
I read... (somwhere else)
~2/3 of the people in WW2 were drafted.
~1/3 of the people who served in Vietnam were drafted
from yet another site:
2,594,000 personnel served within the borders of South Vietnam (Jan. 1, 1965 - March 28, 1973). Another 50,000 men served in Vietnam between 1960 and 1964.
So like 1/3 of 2.6 million were drafted to vietnam.... ~870,000 people.
870,000 people is a little less than 22 million -- which is what your numbers that you want people with ADD to read are based on.