One of the things we ought to be thinking about is some level of mandatory service to our country, so that everybody in America -- not just the poor kids who get sent to war -- are serving this country.We've heard about National Service before during Boomer-par-excellence Clinton's term. It's always couched in the kindest do-gooder terms of "service". But the word serve comes from the Latin word servus. And servus means slave.
Millenials and Gen-Xers do plenty of service, on their own, in small ways, in their communities. Voluntarily.
If they want slaves they may get Spartacus...
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NO GENERATION TRULY ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHO THEY ELECT. JUST AS I A 25 YR. OLD AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEBT THAT I IMPOSED ON THE FUTURE GENERATIONS BY ELECTING G.W. BUSH AND EXPENSIVE FOREIGN POLICY, SHOULD NOT THE GENERATION THAT ELECTED FDR BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEAVY YOKE HE PLACED ON THE US THROUGH INEFFICIENT SOCIAL PROGRAMS? THERE IS A ROBBERY TAKING PLACE AND THE VICTIM IS THE UNBORN. WE TAKE WHAT WE MAKE FOR GRANTED SAYING THINGS LIKE I EARNED THIS AND LIFE WAS HARDER WHEN I WAS YOUNG; I WALKED UP HILL BOTH WAYS. BUT IN REALITY PART OF THIS INCOME IS PREDICATED ON THE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR AND THE DEBT WHICH WE AS A GENERATION WILL ULTIMATELY HAND DOWN TO OUR CHILDREN. WHEN THAT DEBT EXCEEDS THE VALUE OF OUR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE MINUS OUR POLLUTION AND DEGREDATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT WE HAVE FAILED TO DO THE MOST IMPERITIVE AND INHERENT GOAL OF AN AMERICAN PARENT AND THAT IS TO HAND DOWN A WORLD BETTER THAN WHAT WAS GIVEN TO US. LETS NOT TRY TO HAND DOWN MONEY THAT WE ACQUIRED THROUGH OUR OWN GLORY BUT HAND DOWN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO CREATE SOMETHING FOR THERESELVES JUST AS WE DID. MAY WE QUIT COMPETING AGAINST EACHOTHER SO SAVAGELY THAT WE LEAVE NOTHING FOR OUR CHILDREN TO COMPETE FOR.
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