The NY Times, no surprise, has a piece suggesting mandatory Government service. They note:
Universal national service would include one year of civilian service or military service for all adults to be completed before they reach the age of 25, with responsibilities met domestically or around the world. It would channel the conscience of the Civilian Conservation Corps and put young people in the wilderness repairing the ravages of environmental destruction. It would draw on the lessons of the Peace Corps and dispatch young Americans to distant lands where they would understand the challenges of poor countries and of people for whom basic health and nutrition are aspirational goals. It would draw on the success of our military programs that in the past created pathways toward financial stability and educational progress for those with limited resources, while also serving as great unifiers among America’s races, religions and social classes.
Now this means that PhDs in engineering, science, biology, Medical students, and others who dedicate themselves to years of delayed gratification working to help build the society must stop everything and be indoctrinated by Government gnomes as well as doing such critical tasks as sweeping walkways and peeling potatoes. While our competition in China is surging forward the suggestion is to tear the best of our young as they struggle through essential studies to compete in strategic fields and do a Mao like Great Leap Forward on cleaning streets, painting school walls and the like,
The real hidden intent is to get the young when most impressionable and indoctrinate them in the ways of our new rulers. From one going through the 1960s in my twenties I can assure you that burning draft cards will likely reappear. Unintended consequences are all too often the result.
Instead we should be supporting our very best to excel in the fields we need to compete. Social media is not such a field. Viral immunotherapy clearly is. You only get there by hard and persistent work. Not the Maoist way of many in the current generation.
Also there is the cost but it seems no politician cares about that any longer.
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