Posted on 09/28/2004 9:17:06 PM PDT by TommyC1
Well here's the problem, young fellow...
A young person can't earn enough in two years to pay for four years of collage. For that matter a young person without an education can't earn enough to pay his room and board and medical each year to say nothing about a car, dates etc....
Not if it can be done with just volunteers. If very needed more troops than we had, then I would support it. But that time is not now.
One of the freedoms in the US is to try to be the success that you want to be, what used to be called "you can do anything you want." The flip side of that is usually ignored - it is that you don't have to do what you don't want to do. The fewer things we are forced to do, the more free we are. This has been a silent bedrock in our society.
Wait till you find that your idea of "community service " is not acceptable to the school board because it is faith based, unisex, or somehow outside the new norms according to them. No matter how nice it sounds, the fewer requirements, the better. And the budget to pay for all this - from tax hikes on the folks that provide most jobs outside the government. And you can bet that the wastage in these programs will be substantial. How else are we going to find places for the otherwise unemployable nieces and brothers of the Democratic party functionaries?
More like indentured servitude. But both are prohibited by the Constitution. Not that it matters to Democrats.
Gee, I wonder what type of "community service" he's talking about. Free labor for useless lib'ral social programs? Naaaaah, couldn't be.
What I object to is opposing the idea on the basis that having a obligation to your country is "slavery".
You do not yet have a tax burden hanging like a millstone around your neck. But you will and then you'll know why nobody here wants to add more give-aways and more bureaucratic layers, all at our expense.
And what of those who are not academically competitive? Do they just do the "community service" and get sent along to college anyway? If not, then isn't there going to be groaning about "discrimination"?
Of what, exactly, will this "community service" consist? What organizations will get the grants (more tax-payer expense, btw) and whose agenda will be served?
None of this has been clarified, none of it has been spelled out. Like all of kerry's proposals, it's short on detail.
More about AmeriCorps:
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ED042497b.cfm
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/10/10/92042
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=831
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10504-2003Jul31.html
Thank you. I happen to agree. And so, apparently, did about 80% of the armed services in WWII who were draftees as opposed to volunteers. I guess that's why that generation is called "greatest".
work a whole summer for $500 Kerrey wants slave labor!thats less than minumuim wage!
I wonder how sKerry would like it if we changed around Marx a little to make the first part read "From each according to his bank account, ..." I'm sure somebody with an old typewriter could fabricate a few documents in Karls name.
He's sure not talking about THIS, is he?
Remember the hell on earth that broke out when somebody just suggested that maybe people who got welfare might be required to do a little community work?
Die Kerry-Jugend.
Unbelievable.
It's short on details for a reason. If they spelled it out any further, they would show how right we are in thinking that it is a massive indoctrination program.
Just think of how it would really work and who would get the "training" positions.
Put on your tinfoil hat and think about this: At the flip of a switch, a well planned program like this, all nicely pre-funded and staffed nationwide, could be turned into an oppresive, all pervasive control mechanism by She Who Must Not Be Named.
As you and I know Kerry speaks both from his mouth and ass at the same time!
That was the era of the ground pounders. It's over.
Oh, I can easily see this turning into a democratic party registration and gotv drive with underage slave labor paid for by you and me.
Just like Americorps!
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