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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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61 posted on 04/16/2019 12:59:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shanover

The thing is, it’s already in place. Americorps/VISTA is still here and this idiot doesn’t even know it...................


62 posted on 04/16/2019 1:03:55 PM 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: Red Badger

Americorps II...because Americorps I under Billy Boy was so successful /sar


63 posted on 04/16/2019 1:09:53 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

They are still around. I see them from time to time in places wearing their Americorps tee shirts...............


64 posted on 04/16/2019 1:12:03 PM 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: C19fan

‘National Service’ = ‘Reeducation Camp’


65 posted on 04/16/2019 1:21:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: C19fan; All

This guy sounds gay. Is he a snowflake?


66 posted on 04/16/2019 1:35:53 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: C19fan
This is the kind of national service he would want.


67 posted on 04/16/2019 1:40:51 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Red Badger

Americorps, or VISTA, were programs that just sort of petered out, much like the Civilian Conservation Corps of the days of FDR and the New Deal of the 1930’s, were of usefulness only during periods of economic contraction and recession.

The outbreak of a foreign war ended the days of CCC, but the alumni of that organization made up much of the number of the NCO’s that led the troops into close combat with both the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, or the Third Reich on the other side of the world, and were core members of our Greatest Generation.

The concept was reborn in the days of the New Frontier, under JFK, and the VISTA and the Peace Corps were created as an alternative to what at the time was a universal military training draft for young men of America. Inevitably, these organizations became havens for incubating and cultivating the US version of the Soviet work legions, and the ideology embraced was pretty close to the Soviet line. Many of the protests of the 1960’s and 1970’s grew out of alumni of these programs, and America reaped the whirlwind as these “baby boomers” age into adulthood.

And now they want to renew the franchise to create a NEW generation of vipers? After seeing what they were able to do while operating under the radar, it is all the more imperative to keep the spotlight shining on them.


68 posted on 04/16/2019 1:58:43 PM PDT by alloysteel (Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori [Latin for"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country."])
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To: C19fan

I think I will refer to this RAT feces as Butt Head on a go forward; has a nice ring to it, ya think?


69 posted on 04/16/2019 2:36:11 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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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.

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70 posted on 04/16/2019 3:33:56 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: C19fan

Slavery is illegal. Government mandated “service” is slavery.


71 posted on 04/16/2019 4:19:16 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: FatherofFive
We've been doing just fine with a volunteer military. Start the the draft and the deferment nonsense begins.
72 posted on 04/16/2019 10:08:16 PM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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