Elias, couldn’t agree with you more. One benefit you missed is that forcing national service on ALL socio-economic classes would help eliminate many current divides. A PhD might actually know a bricklayer, a white Wall Streeter would know a black musician, and so one. My generation, the Boomers/Yuppies, became so me-focused because we ne…
Elias, couldn’t agree with you more. One benefit you missed is that forcing national service on ALL socio-economic classes would help eliminate many current divides. A PhD might actually know a bricklayer, a white Wall Streeter would know a black musician, and so one. My generation, the Boomers/Yuppies, became so me-focused because we never were required to give back. Yours is more concerned with rights than with responsibilities or love of country. I have a Q in the queue to ask Tom McGrath, author of The Triumph of the Yuppies, if the yuppies would have turned out differently if they had been required to serve. BTW, I would make the requirement two years so that it is more meaningful. We can thank Bill Bradley for raising the requirement during his presidential campaign in 2000.
Elias, couldn’t agree with you more. One benefit you missed is that forcing national service on ALL socio-economic classes would help eliminate many current divides. A PhD might actually know a bricklayer, a white Wall Streeter would know a black musician, and so one. My generation, the Boomers/Yuppies, became so me-focused because we never were required to give back. Yours is more concerned with rights than with responsibilities or love of country. I have a Q in the queue to ask Tom McGrath, author of The Triumph of the Yuppies, if the yuppies would have turned out differently if they had been required to serve. BTW, I would make the requirement two years so that it is more meaningful. We can thank Bill Bradley for raising the requirement during his presidential campaign in 2000.