National Day of Service
I hope all of you have done something on this national day of service.
All levelly aside, the talks of mandatory or even incentivised national service is one scary thought. Now there is nothing wrong with some sort of service, but to have the government basically give somebody money in the form of tax brakes in order to get people to do some national service is kind of scary. That isn’t volunteer work, that is regular work. Nobody is going to want to volunteer at their local salvation army when the government can give out incentives that no other charity could possibly match. And of course the fact that the government will determine what is a worthwhile cause for this “service,” and you can be pretty sure that it will be the special interest groups that get all of these “volunteers” and any organization without friends in Washington will be left high and dry trying to compete with the government’s idea of service and its incentives that no private organization could hope to match. ]
Now get your students out there so they can become good little citizens in their government schools and their national “service.” It’s not like you will have a chance when they make service mandatory for all good little citizens, no matter what that silly little document called the constitution says about involuntary servitude.
