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Ew, no.

Would be good for older Americans to serve to. They are the ones who got us to this point.

Germany has this model and yes it works.

I can't imagine a worse time to say this than now, during an unwanted war that has sailors wanting to jump ship.

This is a disappointing take. U.S Military Industrial Complex writ large.

My daughter did a 9 month volunteer youth program in Canada called Katimavik..volunteering (civil service) in 3 communities across Canada with a cohort of 9 other 18 and 19 year olds. She loved living with with a peer group and working on community projects, and found her direction in life.

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it could be 'civil service' not necessarily 'military service'.

I used to love this idea, but we all know the children of the elite are not going to do “mandatory” service. Rich people’s kids will be able to get a leg up on their careers with much less competition, while everybody else becomes serfs. The caste system will be in place in record time. No thanks.

How about mandatory service to renew retirees’ faith in America, too?

OK. It's a nice idea, but -You don't have the kid population to mass mobilize & have a zero sum system in which they can't afford to piss away 3 or 4 summers on providing non-career oriented free or discounted labor while rich brats cruise into legacy college slots ahead of them.

This will go absolutely nowhere. The comparisons to socialist countries who do this will come swift and hard but they’ll be called communistic.

Yes

Two classes. Rich and poor. The owners and their servants. While the rest of us do our service the rich just want more power and control. There are millions of people that give service everyday. Now! That service is trying to save the people that our Republican govt wants to throw away. What BS

Suozzi cares about two things...lining up his pocket and sending our treasury to Israel to fun their genocidal campaign against Palestinians

So out of touch. Funny thing about capitalism…..Scott may make even more money just for saying this.

F’N stupid! Every rich kid will get away from doing anything meaningful or useful for the country while the poor pay the price. You want them to have faith? Make corporations and the greedy rich accountable. Afford them a decent life. While you are at it, house and feed homeless veterans. 🤬

It is still August

Not a good idea

Says the immigrant. Will that include the rich kids? Say, Scott’s children?

I worked in the YCCIP in high school in the late 70s. Basically doing work the janitors wouldn't do. They paid us a little money. Reagan shut it down. It gave me a taste of making money. Great idea to bring something like that back.

The poor would find themselves in the shit positions. Just like now! That would certainly restore young people‘s faith in the country .

No!

Thank you. I’ve been saying this for years. You can be in the military. You can work in a national park. You can build houses for the homeless. Lots of good opportunities. But everybody should be doing something for the country. (And they all get VA healthcare for life.)

Really you are highlighting the biggest third way meat bag Suozzi? Suozzi isnt fit to be your garbage man.

Oh, there's going to be mandatory service coming up soon, just not the kind you're thinking of.

Sorry Scott, my kids said they're not going to be forced to change your and other boomers' diapers.

Exactly!! It is just unbelievable how for centuries we sacrificed the poor and the working class and how they suggest that we keep doing it.

I love this idea, too. And also because, and this is a bit more out there, but it seems to me that if you expose more people to how fulfilling it is to do service work, they'll be more open to it as we move into a AI/UBI-based economy.

Imagine how Trump would corrupt this for his benefit.