I fully support the idea. Start young with civics projects, move into more government/health/military stuff culminating around the time you graduate college.
I will be honest. I'm tentatively hopeful about this administration. If he can return us to an operating surplus, and he stays away from my guns, this might not be as bad as I'd feared. I like the change.gov site a lot, them releasing the gsa transition guide shows an openness that I think has been missing in government for too long. > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 1:40 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Thoughts on national service > > Obama is proposing a pretty broad program of national service > geared toward middle school, high school and college > students. At one point it was being discussed as mandatory. > Now the language looks to have softened. > > http://change.gov/americaserves/ > > What do people think about the idea of mandatory national service? > > Personally, I like the idea. I think that serving your > country is patriotic and could help get a lot done. I have > some practical qualms, wondering if we'd be able to > effectively use the volunteer power at hand or if it would > really go to waste. I'd also be concerned about kids that are > working a lot in addition to school. How much time do they > really have? But 50 hours a year seems pretty doable for most > situations and I really do like the ideal. > > Thoughts? > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:279508 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
