Starship Troopers--the Heinlein novel and NOT the movieWe produce more people than we need for public service, all forms, so how do you determine who serves where and who doesn't serve at all...
Seriously I agree that peeps throw these things out w/o fully engaging brain groups
But I also believe that levels of Federal benefits should be earned versus inherited. One example that comes to mind immediately is college loans. Another that comes to mind deals with the current discussion on expanding the foreign service. Make national service a prerequisite for entry into the Foreign Service. Many FSOs already do that as I am sure you know.
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Tom
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I am very much a Heinlein model fan in an ideal world but it will never happen lest the bugs actually send a big rock at earth
Hopes for any form of national service are probably equally Quixotic but man must dream
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