If I were king, I would move the age of majority up to 25. The brain isn't completely developed until age 25.
Buttigieg’s Brownpants. Uh...no thanks Peter.
A liberal figures out how to screw up another good idea. I’ve been for National Service for as long as I can remember. Not forced, but as a requirement to vote. You shouldn’t be able to vote if you don’t have skin in the game.
I’m all for making welfare leeches work for the money.
What is the limiting principle, here? If one year of mandatory make-work is good, why not two? Why not ten?
Why not a lifetime?
We don’t need another year of government indoctrination and servitude. We don’t owe government a thing and certainly not a year of service.
Want to join the military - sure, but it is more than one year and you can do it right now, always have been able to. Want to join the Peace Corp - nothing is stopping you - do it today. Mission trips - most Churches have such programs.
What butt-plug seems to be proposing - no sale.
What they really want is unfettered access to indoctrinate the young...
My kids had to endure mandatory service requirements in high school.
No thanks Mayor Pete.
I also find it amusing that he’s going on, bleating about ‘social cohesion’ out of one side of his mouth, while ragging on conservative Christians on the other.
“End draft registration for everyone, equally. No forced national service. Leave young people free to pursue their own happiness.”
This, along with the horribly painful success of FedGov control over education, and you get the snowflake generation we have, today, wholly incapable of protecting this nation from the oozing encroachment of myriad threats from around the world.
One way to push back on the pussification of America is mandatory national service. You won’t change every mind, but you just might change enough to stem the tide of man buns, twat knots and skinny jeans that spells the demise of this last, best hope of mankind.
I realize this is not a popular position among conservatives, but desperate times call for drastic measures. Two years of military service or three years of non-military service, for everyone, between the ages of 18 and 26, could work miracles to regain our national pride. Couple that with the right to vote, and you have a most intriguing plan, indeed.
Any honorable salaried employment is a benefit to society, or they wouldn’t be paying you to do it.
I’m in favor of encouraging military service. Non-military service, I think they are just trying to hide the general lack of job opportunities that still persist. Trump is trying to turn it around, bringing industry back. The Democrats are promising you a chance to do DNC activism for free.
Half the D party voter rolls has an IQ below 85, just asking them not to throw their trash on the ground would probably be asking too much, probably even be called “racist” and we don’t want that.
If I were king, I would move the age of majority up to 25. The brain isn't completely developed until age 25.
His “service” probably means sitting at a computer and trolling conservative websites like Media sMatters does
Good luck trying to get this generation off of the couch for much else
Hey, I want a lot of things. Does a President Buttigieg plan to force all colleges and employers to ask his question first?
If I am interviewing some young person, and they answer the question of National Service by saying, "Hell no, I didn't do that! It is a complete waste of time, and I am in too big of a hurry to make my mark in the World to twiddle my thumbs on government make-work for a year!"....
That is the one I'm hiring.
Let’s have those dedicated to the safety of our country serve... hmmm, that’s what we have now.
There is nothing good about this idea. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
It is another way to have a great, big huge bureaucracy with tens of thousands of employees “managing” it, millions of people bilking it, and nothing worthwhile coming of it.
Good God. We even have people on FR openly supporting this.
He might not make it “compulsory”, but might make it a prerequisite for being eligible for college financial aid.
“National service will hopefully become one of the themes of the 2020 campaign,”
Yeah, and the “official” service uniform will include a rubber ball gag.
With colleges growing more and more unattractive to young men, as shown by the ratio of male to female students on campuses, national service actually might appear like a viable option for many of them.
The PC culture has its victims, and the university campus is one of them....