The Mandatory Draft: Alternative Service Option

We've all been had..

Our president has sold his country into a state of war for the next century. We must overcome this. One of the only ways we will be able to do this is by instituting a national mandatory draft for all citizens turning seventeen, or graduating High School (whichever is later.)

Why are we in trouble? Because the exact same administration that lied to us about invading Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction, has also saddled us with a huge debt because of the privatized army that we are using.

We no longer have the same structure we've had in previous wars. There are no cooks and KP details in the all volunteer army. They were all privatized, by Haliburton, and KBR. We need to take the contractors out of Iraq, and put our citizens, and children in.

The new mandatory draft will be three (four) years, for all children older then seventeen or High School Graduates (whichever comes later). The draft will have two forms, a traditional military service, or an alternative service-to-America component.

This new alternative service option will be very similar to the military in structure, and basic organizational setup, such as a basic training period to acclimate the new students into their roles as assistants to helping rebuild America.

A basic training period for the new service recruits will cover such basic social items as:
* living away from home
* living with mixed sexes (and why animals never go to the bathroom where they eat!)
* living in the city/suburbs
* how to work with targeted local populations
* appropriate equipment training.

Signing up for longer service, will get advanced career training. Just like West Point, a new training academy (America's Academy perhaps?) will be established for engineering, math, civil engineering, and other needed fields.

There will be two primary tracts for new recruits, either inner city or suburb. Recruits from the suburbs will go to inner city for training and teaching. Their duties may encompass teaching (computers/music/daycare training/whatever) in the inner cities. In order to accomplish these goals, they may also need to learn (and practice) management, project management, computers, general and specific teaching skills, as well as interpersonal management skills.

The goals of these inner city teams will be to empower and help these youth in their educational experiences, help build the community's infrastructure, and jump-start the community's future.

Recruits from Cities, will go to a rebuilding and -infrastructure program. Here they may learn skills as diverse as:
construction skills such as: plumbing, carpentry, masonry, project management
how to operate heavy machinery (bulldozer, backhoe, tractor, repaving machines)
traffic and police management techniques
civil engineering.
Again, the program is designed to help educate our youth, so that instead of just having a life of bagging groceries, or working in service industries, we can train them in many of the traditional jobs that we currently have unfilled.

Another goal of the service in America project is to jump-start our work-force, so that we can begin to rebuild the infrastructure of our country that has become rotten, and soft at the core.

The graduates and recruits of the service academies will be encouraged to remain employed and trained by the Service project. Recruits remaining for the full service will receive two years of fully paid college (an associates program). Re-enlisting in the service corp will earn further educational and training benefits, as well as be counted to the twenty year service career path.

Both inner city, and suburb graduates of the programs will be eligible for advanced training, and entry into the national service academy. The service academy will train our future engineers, mathematicians, civil engineers, as well as many other professions for rebuilding our society.