This dug out from the president-elect Obama’s new change program:
a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.
This dug out from the Galbraith and Friedman on the Draft - the President's Commission on an All-Volunteer Force in 1960s.
In his testimony before the commission, Mr. Westmoreland said he did not want to command an army of mercenaries. Mr. Friedman interrupted, "General, would you rather command an army of slaves?" Mr. Westmoreland replied, "I don't like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves." Mr. Friedman then retorted, "I don't like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries. If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general; we are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher."In my view in practicality, in any job you need to time to settle on the job; screening new environments, what you have in your plate, it takes few weeks regardless whatever your qualification might be. Managing the system; every few weeks change over and retraining newbees’ costs more then the inputs. Also consideration goes to the 50 and 100 hours they can stay on their study more fruitful then the distraction. Korea we have nationals military services for male and have emergency reserve forces, but in Korean practically war at the moment. All Korean know that what they stand for.
We all involved community serves one or another way. I saw many people; many women group, old folk homes, soup kitchens i.e. they are all give their time freely. No one ask them to do so but happily volunteered. Even if you don’t have time, you donate money your favorite charities. Few years back, according to the Age, if this all sums up, it would about equivalent of 39% of Australian GDP per annum.
But regardless what we have to think the “real” the people’s liberty. It is the backbone of democracy.
So I have to ask two questions myself:
1) Are you happy to serve your 50 hours to women’s shelter if you can?
Or
2)You have a duty to give your 50 hours to a woman’s shelter.
And this is an answer of my questions, he added this his blog while I am typing the above:
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect.So I think matter of questioning if I were an American!
