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Right. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other
by fennecfoxen 12y ago
Right. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other ways to keep track of its citizens. Nowadays, no human being really cares if you register anymore, because there's no draft, and if there ever needed to be, they could require registration again and track down the delinquents using computers.
So it'll probably be required forever. Wikipedia says the agency gets $24 million a year.
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- Turing_Machine 12y agoThere are some consequences for not registering (can't get federal government jobs, can't get federal student aid) so it's not quite true that no one cares.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoWell, yes, the bureaucracy always cares. But I said human beings. :)
- zerohp 12y agoThey really do care if you register. If you don't register by 26 and decide to go to college later, you'll lose a significant amount of financial aid offered to independent students. There's no way to register after 26, so you're stuck.