Furthermore, someone has to pay for this ‘free’ year of service. Those ‘free’ volunteers have to eat and have a place to live.
House one with each member of the US Congress and DNC.
Greater service would be starting a business, getting married, getting a degree. This libs really want us all out on the roads picking up trash like we were convicted of a DUI.
How does that help “society”?
There are obvious problems here. First...if you figure the typical cost of having a first year GI around....we are talking around $15k for room and board, with medical insurance covered and transportation cost. Add in the leadership costs...a real “sarge” will be $80k in salary and benefits. Figure for each twenty of these “sarges”, a commander who is making $120k in salary and benefits.
Forced agendas for the volunteer force? You could end up forcing some southern kid into some California AIDS assistance program....which he doesn’t want any part of. You could have a dozen right-wing guys show up at some Nat’l Park program...who won’t tolerate liberal leadership....do you “fire” them?
The year of offered college? We are starting to prove now that numerous colleged-degree folks are not finding jobs...nor does the college really ensure anything. We have college-mills which are simply pumping out a four-year degree piece of paper, but the kid really doesn’t have the background or education that you’d expect.
I think this activism concept will be a hot topic for the entire year, but thankfully, we are in the midst of the worst economic situation in fifty years....so the funding is going to Ford, GM and Chrysler....rather than these idiot volunteer program folks. If you got to flush the cash on a Ford LTD or a volunteer organizer program....lets go for the Ford LTD.