sanjavalen Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0B7dOQwKm0 SMITH: I meant to ask you about the universal service piece of the plan. Can you tell me about it? Like, how is this going to work? Are people going to live in barracks? EMANUEL: Universal Civil Defense Training... I think he had it at 18, but we were saying somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25, you will do three months of training. You can do it in your(inaudible). Some point in college you can do just that. There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of civil... what we call civil defense training or civil service... some sense of service to country in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American. We propose three months. At the end of the day someone says it should be four more. I’m not going to sit here and hold it up. SMITH: I mean it’s a lot more than the U.S. government asks of anybody right now. EMANUEL: Guess what? We have a lot more challenges, so we are going to need a lot to do it. SMITH: I mean I don’t mean to get hung up on the aesthetics of it, but like uniforms... is it like Europe... people go absent? EMANUEL: If you’re worried about going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is “yes.” SMITH: Are you kinda shifting the “country-esque” Army bases in the Summers? I mean… I wonder how it’s going work. This is people’s experiences. It’s so abstract. Do you go nine to five in some course in a Red Cross building? EMANUEL: The whole idea there is it will be worked on you can do it through your State-National guard could be the vehicle for that. The goal here (inaudible) to work on piece of legislation for ya’ and all that, but that’s one venue of doing it. Topic for discussion: Do you think such a thing would ever come to pass? Second, what would you do if it did? Edited November 22, 2008 by sanjavalen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadkat Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0B7dOQwKm0 Topic for discussion: Do you think such a thing would ever come to pass? Second, what would you do if it did? I don't think it will come to pass, for one huge reason. They don't have the money for it. But if it did, I would resist it being mandatory, and I would resist any of my friends being forced to do it (I'm probably getting to be on the old side for it myself, especially by the time they'd have it worked out, I'd be over 25). I don't have as much of a problem with it so long as it's voluntary, but I don't see it as being useful or helpful for anything, so in that case it's just a big waste of resources and hence wrong for that reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 The more I hear from Obama the more I think Hoover Redeux. America, land of the free to conform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Leave it to the Obama camp to import a European idea to "give people a sense of what it means to be an American." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Andrew Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...3002217_pf.html Related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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