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Originally posted by AGDee
Umm, the service would be your job for two years. You would get paid, just as you do in the military. Therefore, it would decrease government handouts. Some of the people could even do their service at day care centers for the kids. It would give them real life work experiences. I think, in general, our society has moved from Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" back to always asking what our country can do for us. My hope would be that it would reverse that trend.
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But it wouldn't be asking what you can do, it would be telling you what you can do. And what if you could make a better wage doing something else? Would you have to settle for the 7 or 8 dollars an hour at the childcare centre because you'd be serving your country? Or could you take that 12 or 15 dollar an hour job doing whatever and support your family? Why not just let people go out and get a job?
What happens to our universities if we keep putting kids into the military or into forced service? Ok, some might go on to university, but there's a 2 year gap in classroom learning/application. How many will go back into academia for that? And I don't think the Greek system would survive, from a totally shallow point of view.
Basically, I don't want ANYONE telling me what to do, nor do I want anyone to take my brother, boyfriend and friends away against their will. Patriotic speaches are just that, speaches. The guys who make them will rarely have their kids on the firing line.
"Don't wave your rights with your flags."