> > 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.
Sorry that's a default. Those who have served in the military have truely served our society. They have made the emotional, personal and financial sacrifice to serve the nation. Tim and Bruce (although I thoroughly disagree with their politics I respect them for their service) can tell you more about that. More or less everyone pays taxes, unless you're poor or very rich (proportionately), so where is the real sacrifice and service there. As for being politicallly active, most I suspect get into it for other reasons than service - the prospect of financial gain or a good job, to get laid, the public aggrandizement, the change to get back at those "others", etc. > > 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. You may want to look at the Canadian Katimavik program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katimavik), it does something similar. One question would it suppliment or replace the Americorps or PeaceCorps? Or similar programs aimed at college students. Moreover how would the kids live during that time? Would it be manditory? > > 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 So college wouldn't even start until age 22 or so. Again how would these programs be paid for? > > 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. Quasi military boot camp? why? It sounds too much like involuntary servitude to me. AS for the boot camp concept, well its been shown not to work with juvies. Boot camp redicidism rates are worse than the rates for kids who were just jailed. > > 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:250869 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
