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Pete Buttigieg suggests national service program
Politico ^ | April 15, 2019 | Matthew Choi

Posted on 04/16/2019 11:34:33 AM PDT by C19fan

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday night advocated a form of national public service for all young adults as a way to create unity among Americans.

"We really want to talk about the threat to social cohesion that helps characterize this presidency but also just this era," the mayor of South Bend, Ind., told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "One thing we could do that would change that would be to make it, if not legally obligatory, but certainly a social norm that anybody after they're 18 spends a year in national service."

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020; petebuttigieg; potus; slavery
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To: Vaquero
Would he have "butt-gigs" (in the usual places) be classified as “national service” and would he then have us taxpayers pick up the bill?
21 posted on 04/16/2019 11:44:44 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Vaquero

22 posted on 04/16/2019 11:46:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Revel
Honestly, a gay man who publicly tongue-kisses his husband has zero chance of becoming President. The 35% of the country who LOVES that stuff will really really really love Buttigieg, but his appeal to the rest of the nation will be minimal.

He will not be the nominee.

23 posted on 04/16/2019 11:46:55 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: C19fan

We could call it “Marxists R Us”.


24 posted on 04/16/2019 11:47:34 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: dead

We will see. Won’t we?


25 posted on 04/16/2019 11:47:59 AM PDT by Revel
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To: bgill

He could become the jugendfuhrer. Didn’t Obammy suggest something just like this. Thankfully it never happened.


26 posted on 04/16/2019 11:48:11 AM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: C19fan

Every time one of these mutts on the left open their mouth my fortune, freedom and sacred honor are infringed.


27 posted on 04/16/2019 11:48:38 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Red Badger

Lederhosen with trap drawer flap in the rear.


28 posted on 04/16/2019 11:49:14 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: C19fan

The white Obama.


29 posted on 04/16/2019 11:49:18 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: C19fan

So, he wants to bring back slavery.


30 posted on 04/16/2019 11:49:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: C19fan

We already have a ‘’national service’’ for 18 year olds. It’s called the military.


31 posted on 04/16/2019 11:49:45 AM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: C19fan

Just like Venezuela.


32 posted on 04/16/2019 11:49:46 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: C19fan

Wasn’t something like this floated back in the Kennedy-Johnson era? Join the Peace Corps or get drafted. It didn’t go over.


33 posted on 04/16/2019 11:51:39 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Red Badger
STEPHEN
And here's the beauty of it...everyone who is older than eighteen and past the age of eligibility, would be for it...create national pride...give all the kids an education.

GOV. MORRIS
And all the others?

STEPHEN
Can't vote. Too young.

34 posted on 04/16/2019 11:52:05 AM PDT by x
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To: dead

I think that there are just too many Democratic party constituencies (Black, Hispanics, Catholics) that really hate the gays for him to win the nomination. He’s perfect for journalists, who like his articulacy, but he doesn’t help the Dems in the midwest, which is where they want to win.


35 posted on 04/16/2019 11:53:42 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: jmacusa
We already have a ‘’national service’’ for 18 year olds. It’s called the military.

2 year mandatory military service is not a bad idea. We can have remedial education classes as well.

36 posted on 04/16/2019 11:55:51 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: C19fan

Isn’t ‘compulsory uncompensated service’ = slavery?


37 posted on 04/16/2019 11:56:27 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: C19fan

He can just kiss muh... uhhhh, never mind.


38 posted on 04/16/2019 11:57:18 AM PDT by Home-of-the-lazy-dog ("Leftists will stand before you and cut off their own head just to prove that they'll do it!")
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To: dead
"..a gay man who publicly tongue-kisses his husband.."

Does that make buttplug the wife?

If so, buttplug may be the first female president, breaking shrillary's glass ceiling.

39 posted on 04/16/2019 11:58:13 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: C19fan

Oooh, it will be just like China’s Red Brigades!


40 posted on 04/16/2019 11:59:27 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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