Comments on: Rahm Emanuel and compulsory universal service

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By: Barney Fine

Barney Fine — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:32:00 +0000

Is this like a draft, to tie into Party Politics ?
As to indentured service suggestions, does Walter know what % of the federal budget of $ 3 trillion is now expended on the civilian federal employee work force ?
hopefully he should.
It is very little.(as a % of the annual federal budget/ year)
That is the great Reagan blunder.
His first speech in Jan. 1981 was to say, Government is the problem. He did that when he was the head of the Government(USA–FED GOV), then for the next 8 years balanced not one federal budget, and grew expenditures of the federal government by a significant %, with added red ink.
This emblodened Cheney and Bush to grow the national debt up to $ 10 trillion.
Actually, the GOP is no longer even operating as a conservative ORG, it is a joke, it looks at Federal expenditures as to what can be harvested for PAC kick back $$$(some race to say in power).
It is a bad idea to have complusory federal service, the USA does not need some draft thing in the civilan zones.
Sure, putting America first is important, don’t the fewer, and fewer of taxpayers, who actually pay taxes, do that, when they mail their checks to the IRS.
Civics has many attributes, voting, paying taxes, and even questioning errant proposals made by politicians, who put Party first, and not the overall country, or the economy, or the state of sane National Affairs

By: Dr. Mary Johnson

Dr. Mary Johnson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:33:34 +0000

I’m trying this again (my first comment did not post).

Before making such civilian service “mandatory”, Obama and his merry-band-of-do-gooders would do well to closely examine the civilian public service programs (usually loan-repayment-for service) already operating . . . and FIX the problems that make them little more than indentured servitude (especially in medicine).

You do that by chatting up those of us who have done the dance and been burned – NOT by listening to “yes” men and women.

The government has a DISMAL record of protecting its own – even as it supposedly helps them.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:46:42 +0000

I hadn’t heard of this until now. That’s a little worrying.

By: Compulsory Service : [H] Hegemonic Pundit

Compulsory Service : [H] Hegemonic Pundit — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:01:02 +0000

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