I worked for the Florida conservation corps. Lived in barracks, wore a uniform, made less than minimum wage if you looked at hours vs. salary.
Many states already have a minimal corps still going, it could be easily expanded. Personally I would like to see the state be the administrator of the program with federal funds, like the national guard. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 3:52 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Thoughts on national service > > yeah or even just minimum wage. Or less. I am pretty sure > that when I was in VISTA I was earning less than minimum wage. > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Larry Lyons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I think it would be better to give incentives to do it than > to make it > >>mandatory. I think national service of some kind is a good > idea, but > >>some kids may be ready at 15 and others at 19. It has to be useful > >>service, otherwise it is merely bad custodial care for teenagers. > >> > >>I also like the idea of making it not just something that teenagers > >>do. Plenty of brainpower is currently wasting away in the minds of > >>senior citizens who eke out a pension working at McDonald's. If you > >>could provide a small stipend to remove the financial > disincentive, a > >>lot of them would probably love to help. Grandmas running > daycares and > >>maybe grandpa helping out a mentoring program for at-risk youth. > >> > >>America wastes a lot of its human resources right now. > > > > How about something like this, have vouchers for 6 months > at the person's college or university of their choice (within > limits of course) for every year of voluntary public service > after highschool. This could be the military, the equivalent > of the CCC of the New Deal, working in poor rural or urban > areas doing community work etc. The students would be given > housing and paid a stipend. > > > > As for the seniors, something like free health care for x > number of hours per week worked in community projects, daycare etc. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:279514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
