Posted on 01/22/2010 3:57:12 PM PST by all the best
Had you been surveyed, how would you answer this survey question: Should military or civil service be mandatory for 18-year-old Americans?
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Is there a reason that the government can’t make welfare recipients register for “service” before they receive their checks. Wouldn’t that help them have a sense of achievement, instead of complacency? Just an idea....
I graduated from LSU which is a land grant college with mandatory ROTC. There was a mandatory 2 year service required for all able bodied males. I stayed on a bit longer like 43 years.
If our kids are going to be enlisted to serve the global master I sure don’t want compulsory service!
Military service generates men and women.
Civil services generates metrosexuals and code pink members.
Are paying taxes mandatory? Is having a social security number mandatory? I do not like that word, and would not make government military service mandatory, but it sure would not hurt most young people. It might even be helpful.
Find the father, take his DNA, put it into a central computer base and check him against every other female with child signing up. Then make him PAY or serve time in prison.
This will stop welfare as we know it.
I can dream.
I think mandatory military service would be good. It was very good for me even though it was only 4 years. And no job or task has EVER been harder than boot camp.
I wouldn’t be opposed to my 9 year old daughter serving some day even if it was mandatory.
I think something along the lines Robert Heinlein proposed in “Starship Troopers”
You wanna vote? You have to serve in some capacity.
You have a good point. I wish that “name the father” could work, but I’m pretty sure that a lot of them don’t really know who the father is.
You can guarantee that if civil or military service is required, there will be a huge number of metrosexuals, homosexuals, transsexuals, and just plain perverts forced into the military. Not to mention the worthless turds who are either drunk or on drugs or so screwed up, you would have to assign one person per idiot just to make sure they didn’t permanently damage an expensive piece of equipment or kill someone through shoddy work or carelessness.
Name that man/boy. Those sperm are making it with several women, then sit back and wait for the welfare checks to come in. Ask any of them where they live, they don't have an address. They STAYS at.
I do think you have a good point. Finding the father would at least bring some responsibility to the “sperm donor” and perhaps the child will fare better with a father as well.
You wanna vote? You have to serve in some capacity.
I can dream.
Starship Troopers is one of my favorite books and Heinlein one of my favorite authors.
Horrible, nearly unwatchable movie though.
Then throw the worthless ones out with a bad discharge that follows them through life. If military service is mandatory there won’t be any need to keep the ones that are lazy, dangerous, or undesirable.
And homosexuals can opt out just by declaring their preference.
I’ll bet hollyweird never touches “Farnham’s Freehold”.
Then what is the use in making it mandatory?
If they can get out by just saying that they are homosexuals, then won’t practically everyone who doesn’t want to serve do it?
And also, in liberal circles a bad discharge from the military is a badge of honor. Do you think the ACLU or the NYT or Berzerkley would be more or less likely to hire a bad conduct discharge idiot?
No 57%
Total votes 809
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