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...more fake hearing losses for me, Mr. Hart. I'm listening...
...Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Co.), who have proposed a mandatory draft of all 18 year olds into civil or military service--No thanks...
...Hart and Torricelli sound pretty serious about this, so stop laughing. They have sponsored bills before their respective governmental bodies that would create a commission to study the feasibility of a national service. Writing in The New York Times last April, Hart and Torricelli pronounced, "We can do more for our young people by asking more from them...
...hope Hart and Torricelli's efforts won't be watered down into a wimpy voluntary national service along the lines of the Peace Corps. That would defeat the purpose of a national service in the first place. Like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would be very popular in its first few years, but eventually the idealism will fade, as it does with most voluntary efforts. And like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would attract the people who need it least--the open-minded, civic-minded charitable ones who work at Phillips Brooks House. The people who need...
This well-intentioned plan not only violates civil liberties, but it is a false panacea which fails to address the root of the problems which Hart and Toricelli aim to solve...