Who will decide what is giving 'back to the country'? That seems like a never ending debate to begin with. Some owld argue that volunteering at your church could be 'giving back' whil others would not.
Regardless of how much or little time would be invovled, it is still, to me, a violation of our freedoms to madate that service must be given to anyone or anything. It still infringes on every Americans right to not care, not to get invovled and not do anything. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:33 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dunno man. I understand your sentiment, and I agree with it.....I mean, > > how can you NOT appreciate being an American and want in some way to do > it > > service? I think the country has a "reasonable right" to expect a measure > of > > commitment...but it's a BIG jump from "reasonable expectation" to "forced > > service". > > Think of it as a "Contract with America"..lol > > I just love quoting Gingrich. > > Seriously though, I think that "forced service" is a loaded phrase. It > sounds like we are going to say "2 years in a gulag for every > american". The way that it is laid out so far is "an hour a week to > give back to the country as you are growing up and being taught what > it means to be a good citizen." > > I admit, I'm always a little concerned when I say things like "teach > them to be a good citizen" because it sounds like indoctrination. And, > to some extent, it is. But I think that the other option, not laying > out any expectations for what makes a good citizen, is even worse. I'd > like to think that we could come up with some reasonably well > respected principles of citizenship that are shared across a broad > segment of society and start from there. > > 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:279656 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
