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Serving the "UNDER-SERVED"
Posted by Agit8r • 4/17/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: "a national day of renewal and reconciliation", charles rangel, civilian draft, compulsory service, jim mcdermott
H.R. 1444 contains concerning language (originally included in the recently passed Serve America Act--but removed before passage). It involves the creation of a commission to investigate, among other things:
"(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.
(6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds"
While some may argue that such an undertaking could promote "social justice"; history shows that some portion of all things expropriated from the individual find their way to profit the already priveleged (see also Corporate Welfare).
It seems inevitable that in addition to giving one's labor to "under-served" schools and "under-served" churches and civic organizations, one might soon also be compelled to labor for "under-served" shopping malls and "under-served" industrial parks...
...all in an effort to "...serve one another and the common purpose of remaking this Nation for our new century."
User Comments
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That's the sound of the [young people] working on the chaaaaaaain, gang!
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Sounded like a bump to me.
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Work Camp kids will smooth that bump out
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oops, there's another one...
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It's a good idea in theory, but it will never get passed in this country. We're too selfish to offer our time without pay. And the right will cry "socialism" ad nauseum.-
Sati- That is why it is called "volunteering". People "volunteer" their time because they want to, not because they are forced too. People not volunteering has nothing to do with being selfish. If people want to go out and help the less fortunate than good for them, and if they don't they don't. Government should not be telling people how to spend their time. I for one do not. When I was in college I used to volunteer but do not have the time right now. This is the most charitable nation on earth. We do not need government telling us we should volunteer because then it is no longer charity. Now I may be missing something here, but this bill seems like a nice word for slavery. I mean the government forcing people to do work without any kind of compensation? I do apologize for being so horribly selfish Sati, but I would not like the government telling me what to do with my time. -
"civilian contractors" for Gitmo too expensive? Under-served information gathering!
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"right will cry 'socialism'"
the left will cry "civil liberties"
so superior it is to be centrist -
It does seem strange that opposing coercion is labeled "selfish" simply because the said coercion is for "a good cause"
just bizzarre... o_O
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