> Larry wrote: > Are you calling me a coward? Coming from someone who was too chickenshit to > serve that not even up to the level of pathetic. >
Nope, Dana. She takes part in threads, attacks people, but then filters their responses. That's cowardly. As for service I think anyone who pays taxes, contributes to society, and is politically active serves. That having been said, I don't think that's enough anymore and favor a revamped educational system that would include a mandatory 2 year service and a 2 year internship broken into four 6 month segments. I would create a new department and an additional Peace Corps that would allow for international work, along with a CCC-type organization for internal work. Each kid would have about 50 options of programs with which to serve as well as the freedom to create their own plan. As for the 2 year internships I would incent companies from small to large to create 6 month internships, subsidized if necessary, that would give kids the ability to sample all kinds of different jobs to figure out the best place for them. The typical kid would look like this: K-12 2 years of government service 2 years of internships college Exceptions could be made, of course, for gifted kids and you'd have to figure out what to do with the washouts; some type of quasi-military boot camp thing maybe. A friend of mine (former marine) is in something like this in Washington which is a part of juvenile detention. What d'ya think? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250831 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
