RE: National Service
February 9, 2017 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2017 at 1:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 9, 2017 at 1:06 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Yeah..the more I think about this, the more I don't like it. You get to keep the medical care that's been supporting you since birth...as long as you come work for the federal gov't.Pretty much, specifically because it's the labor of those who don't opt out the national service that -provides- that healthcare in the first place, in that system. If you don't want to invest (and remember that we're still talking about paid ojt....of all things), you won't get the dividend, or at least not the same dividend as those who did. The only fundamental difference between what we have now with servicemembers and this system, is that in the one I;d advocate for those services are vastly extended, necessitating a commensurate increase in people at the disposal of the system in order to deliver the services.
Quote:I'll say it again, it's not the government's purpose or job to coerce people to work for it. Something about that just seems distinctly creepy and excessive.I think I can get you closer to agreeing than you are now, even if you'd still never sign on.
I think we're just not going to agree on this issue.
For example, what do you do, for work...or better yet what do you want to do?
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