Jules, nice “Modest Proposal”…. I’m still laughing, except for the fact all the socialists/communists you link to actually take this seriously.
This kind of compulsory service is nothing more than stealing the time of young people without fair compensation and is the kind of thing I see in countries like Mexico, where you have to do two years of military service to get a passport (unless your family is rich and connected). Would John Kerry’s kids go into this? How about Obama’s? Or would they get a cush “job” hanging around some paradise. If the U.S. really has this kind of problem you describe, declare war, set some realistic goals and have a draft for everyone to go into the military. When the war’s over, everyone goes back to their lives.
This program these socialists you link to takes away the rights and freedoms of a large group of citizens, costs the economy their productive talents (they will be two or four years behind going to college, getting a job, etc.), and may not be constitutional unless it is voluntary in peacetime. No one with a brain would show up for this voluntarily.
As for the illegal aliens, start punishing the employers and the jobs, money and illegals will dry up. Eisenhower did this in the 1950′s and fixed the problem in about six months. No fence required. Just raise the penalty and the
Forcing all 18 year olds to go work in some socialist utopian make-work program sounds romantic, like the old CCC (“look at all the great parks they built”), but the bottom line is this is indentured servitude. Why don’t we make all the people proposing this bad idea put in their two or four years alongside the 18 year olds? It’s easy to spend someone else’s time and money — I don’t see these people volunteering to do it themselves.
