I can see your point, G and I think its a good one. Is service to the country devalued if it is mandatory? Does it cheapen our country?
I think that service is valuable no matter what. I agree though that it would be better if it was all voluntary. My wife and I discussed this last night and her basic thought was "we shouldn't need to mandate service, but if people aren't going to give back to the country, we need to kick them in the butt a bit and try to get it to be a habit". The plan I saw from Obama was focused on middle school to high school, then optional at the college level as a way to help pay for college. Does that change you opinion, when it is focused more on educating children about service though example and trying to create a habit, rather than mandating it for every adult? I'm open to the idea of non-mandatory plans (and so it seems is Obama since the mandatory bit has been seemingly pulled from change.gov). What do you think would work though? Judah On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I'm not sure that we have that right. Where would you say that the >> right derives from? Is it a fundamental human right or is it a >> principle laid out in the Constitution? Or just a commonly established >> custom? >> > > I think it's a natural evolution of our founding doctrine as a > country.......if you can give citizens absolute freedom, including the > freedom to take from their country without giving one iota back....and yet > still thrive as a country.....that's pretty impressive. > > It also means that we the people are doing a decent job of ensuring we > provide service, and that we pass along to our children the importance of > service....and the important of keeping that service "free" and "voluntary". > > To do otherwise is to admit that the idea of a free people giving of > themselves freely in the cause of their country......doesn't work. It may be > that this is the case, but that would be somewhat disappointing to me, and > would fundamentally change what America means to me (wouldn't make me love > it less....would just change it). > > Dunno if that makes any sense or not.... > > -- > I'm only one, but not alone > My finest day, is yet unknown > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:279673 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
