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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today’s Republicans seem to be adamantly against things like free school lunches and universal health care.  I had thought that many of these types of measures were originally put into place decades ago by Republicans— concerned that large percentages of the population were physically unfit, and if a military draft were instituted, the US would be hampered in their objectives due to the lack of available, fit potential draftees.

So, are my assumptions wrong? If not, then what’s changed? Does military effectiveness no longer require the same levels of physical fitness?  Is the distaste for anything resembling social supports or income distribution so high that the Republicans would prefer having a physically unfit population that is possibly also unfit in other ways when it comes to military service? I’ve read (Military.com) that 77% of today’s young people would be considered unfit to serve for various reasons.  Are the Republicans concerned about this at all? What am I missing? [/quote]

This post makes no sense.
The draft is for 18 and older; and you have to be out of high school so free lunches are not an issue.
More people do not qualify as a lot more pre-existing conditions eliminate large parts of population from serving….drug use (consistent), asthma, autism, epilepsy, etc.

All much more prevalent and diagnosed these days than during Vietnam when we last had a draft.[/quote]

You don’t understand a connection between better nutrition between ages 4-18 and better physical fitness  for those same people at ages 18+? 
I’d even go back to birth — looking at the impact of WIC as possibly being correlated with physical fitness later in life.

I’m happy to look at the other pre-existing conditions, as well as visual impairment and other factors. I’m also happy to look at factors that may impact drug abuse.  I’m guessing— but will check — that obesity and failure to pass fitness tests account for the largest groups of ineligible potential recruits.[/quote]

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