Comments for Report Says 75 Percent of U.S. Youth Unfit for Military Service at http://www.jbs.org , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.jbs.org Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:14:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2934 It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place except you and me, set up Joe I got a little story I think you should know. - Lee Gonzales Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:10:09 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2928 It's a widely recognized cult tactic to deflect someone's arguments by impugning his supposed motives. You can do better than that, I hope. People of character, a population that doesn't include the incumbent JBS management, aren't required to stay mute in the face of pusillanimity and hypocrisy, particularly when they distort the priorities of an otherwise worthy organization. And, FWIW, I don't drink, never have, and have no intention of picking up the habit.:-) - Will Grigg Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:34:14 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2929 It's a widely recognized cult tactic to deflect someone's arguments by impugning his supposed motives. You can do better than that, I hope. People of character, a population that doesn't include the incumbent JBS management, aren't required to stay mute in the face of pusillanimity and hypocrisy, particularly when they distort the priorities of an otherwise worthy organization. And, FWIW, I don't drink, never have, and have no intention of picking up the habit.:-) - Will Grigg Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:34:14 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2925 I'm sure there's a bar where a certain dismissed writer can go to drown out the loss of a writing job due to that writer's bad attitude. When a person of character loses his job he dusts himself off and looks for another one and quits bothering others about his personal problems. I for one am tired of the nufired employee belly aching at this site. - Lee Gonzales Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:34:06 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2922 Teaching as an adjunct faculty for 15 years (I am retired) in private university I see on a daily basis our young people of quite low education and unable to function in the intellectual world. Although our prevailing idea is that it "is the job of parents" to be the first responsible for our "children to be better educated, encouraged to become physically fit through proper diet and lots of exercise, and taught the basic moral values that will enable them to avoid trouble with the law", it they - several generations of parents, grown on soft drinks, hamburgers, junk food, junk pop culture, parents who are cheating on each other every stay in hotel, divorcing every second or third family, tweeting, texting and chirping in their mobiles non-stop and are not able to function in intellectual words - it is parents, who are failing our children in the first line. Our government is as good as we are, and we deserve the government who reflects our society as a gigantic mirror. It is now a logical outcome that our kids are now unfit both physically and mentally. First of all - our parents are not fit. First - go after them. Then go for school, school teachers and how federal government should leave dis-functioning families alone to rear for children abandoned by their non-able parents. Now, on the whole, our society is failing our children, alas! - Gene Kane Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:01:42 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2913 This is typical liberal rhetoric to say whatever sounds good in order to get more money. (We should expect it from that quarter; but have any great spirits fallen to this ploy?) A billion or even a trillion more fiat papers and digits will not help, of course. It is the school SYSTEM that has created the problem. Charlotte Iserbyte has well exposed this dumbing down (noting Reagan, under whom she served, signed the system to integrate with Russia's). The report,while correctly suspicioned, is likely true enough. The answer is to indeed prepare our own children - at home, or in schools of the like-minded. Intellectual, but also spiritual/moral preparation. And, as Mr. Grigg notes, rather than training for an imperial army, now is the time to understand and prepare the Constitutional militias in the States. For that is where the battle lies today. And may be won without force, especially if we so prepare. http://libertydefenseleague.com/liberty/2009/11/03/choosing-federalism-choosing-freedom/ - Pat Henry Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:29:45 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/education-blog/5607-report-says-75-percent-of-us-youth-unfit-for-military-service#comment-2908 With proper respect to Mr. Mass, his analysis misses the most important point: This story reflects the desire of the government ruling us to continue sucking American youth into the imperial military, and most likely is a portent of a return to military slavery (aka conscription) -- a subject the timid people running the nuJBS want desperately to avoid. Conscription is constitutionally impermissible and morally abominable. Back in 1968, when Mr. Welch was alive and the JBS was actually concerned about freedom, the estimable Dr. Medford Evans described the draft as "both slavery and a contingent death sentence." You won't get that kind of candor out of Appleton today. Parents should get their kids fit and teach them that our most important enemy is not some distant foreign regime, but is now and always has been the government ruling us. - Will Grigg Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:33:39 +0100