thranx said:
damndl0ser said:
Yes, I know they already do have a program for those in the Military. However joining the army scares the shit out of a lot of people. And simply put, some people have no chance at making it in the military. Thats why they should have something other than just the Military. It wouldn't take very long for a program like this to become a success. There is so much money being spent on infrastructure its silly. Just recently there was a 8 mile stretch of road built near my home and it cost something like 100 million dollars. That price is insane, because the road was built through farmland and had only 2 small bridges. A program like this could cut the costs in half. So we either get cheaper roads or more roads being built for the same price.
Not to mention everyone who does the program will be trained in some sort of skill set that would be useful in their lives even if the decided not to goto college. It would also force places like McDonalds to increase their pay because these people would have the skill sets and wouldn't need to work flipping burgers. All around it would do nothing but incourage people to do better with their life.
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What about the current road workers put out of business? I know many 18 year olds who already go into construction, and most would rather not go to more school. They are happy doing what they like working with their hands. School is not for everyone, especially college. I myself am capable of going to college( I can pay my way as I go, and I am smart enough to pass) but for what I want to do in life it will not help me. I think we would be better off with a good college system, and a good trade school system. We are severly lacking in the latter. I know many people who could go to school for a shorter period of time and learn a specific skill set instead of the general education you get at college. Many feel that the extra classes are a waste and just want to learn what they need to to get a job they like.
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If you don't goto college then maybe you get free health care for a few years or you get some other type of incentive like no tax until you reach a certain age or you make x amount of money. There are tons of ways you could receive an incentive for your service to the government.
There would probably be some job losses at first, but then after a while things would level off and it would work much better than the current system. Things are basically getting to expensive and something has to be done. I mean jeez 100 million dollars for an 8 mile stretch of road? Cut that in half and use those free workers to build low income homes with the money that is saved.
As you said some people don't want to goto college for whatever reason. And you shouldn't be required to. But for every one of you there are atleast one that can't goto school because its simply to expensive. So something needs to be done and this idea would be a good way of changing things.
It will never happen because there would be to many people claiming it would be the first steps toward communism or something stupid like that. I guess they could make the program not mandatory but I doubt you would get that many workers signing up for minimum wage work. Even though in the long run it would drag them out of poverty.
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