Posted on 07/20/2016 6:47:07 AM PDT by C19fan
In 1838, a 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln declared that the greatest threat facing America comes not from a foreign invader:
If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Consider yourself lucky
His heart may be in the right place, but can you imagine what the Democrats would turn a “National Service Year” into? For a start, “community activism” and BLM would probably count.
never ever national service.
“His heart may be in the right place, but can you imagine what the Democrats would turn a “National Service Year” into? For a start, “community activism” and BLM would probably count.”
Exactly. Like those college professors who compel their students to be little Red Guard ‘volunteers’ on the professor’s hobby horse agendas.
My thoughts exactly. When almost half my income is outright stolen, I believe I have given more than my fare share of service.
The man is an advocate of gun control and an endorser of Democrats, and I don’t agree with his proposal of national service, but I see nothing in the piece that says explicitly that such service should be mandatory.
Not that I’d be surprised.
Stanley: sometimes the best service you can provide is to be quiet.
More enslavement of the American citizenry. And for what? Meanwhile the Islamonazi Invasion continues as fast as O and his sold-out GOP-e co- conspirators can rush them in here.
Yeah, just a little involuntary servitude. That’s awesome.
Hasn’t this already been done with the CCCs and the WPA (We Piddle Around)?
Stanley A. McChrystal, another of our modern low talent Generals that knows best for everybody else. I sure as hell ain’t sending my kid to serve under a putz that presides over a war that drags on for 15+ year and claims how brilliant he is.
And I ain’t sending a kid to scub toilets in some community center in Baltimore or Ferguson. Go be a dictator somewhere else Stanley. Take Wesley and Petraus and Mullen with you.
I actually don’t have a problem with this. I would like to see successful completion of national service as a prerequisite to voting, getting a government job, holding office, or getting federal assistance of any type.
This could be a minimum 2 year hitch in the military, with an additional 10 years as active reserve status or civilian service for 3 years. There should be a wide choice for civilian service — foreign missions for a church, a modern day CCC, working for a State forestry or land management bureau, a county redevelopment agency, a hospice, childcare in an inner city day care center — really anything to improve the nation and community. Direct federal program as a last resort.
“A year of service has the power to bring young people together from different races, ethnicities, incomes, faiths, and political backgrounds to work on pressing problems facing U.S. society today.”
Hillary or Obama could have written this. This is pure community organizing. just in case anyone makes the mistake of wondering how Generals view the citizens. They see you as raw material for whatever they desire, and have high disdain for you running your own life.
Rather than compel (or strongly encourage) Americans to perform some kind of national service for two years, I’d prefer to see an American leader (military or civilian) stand up and simply call for Americans to take more responsibility for themselves and their families.
I think id like a say in what you do this afternoon.... you like that?
Some have gotten into government jobs because of that two years.
Their competence level is questionable.
And, I don't find them grounded in reality. They have a pie-in-the-sky reasoning about very serious situations.
We have had Peace Corps since JFK. That's nearly 55 years and not much has changed in the world.
Based upon results, it has been a complete waste of human resources and money. IMHO!
“I’d prefer to see an American leader (military or civilian) stand up and simply call for Americans to take more responsibility for themselves and their families.”
You wild eyed radical.
Your proposal would require an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Amendment XIII Section 1.
Neither Slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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