Originally posted by uzlessHe also seems to think that calling you by your ID(with one letter changed) is an insult. 😵
You found it ignorant because you don't know how to read. The thread was a summary of all reasons people on rhp have given for why people vote the way they do.
I found their reasoning to be a joke and made the thread to point out how stuipid it was.
You, on the other hand, couldn't understand the complexity of such a simple statement.
Resurrecting this old thread. Back in August of 2006 Rahm Emanuel was interviewed on C-SPAN about his book titled The Plan: Big Ideas for America. In the interview he talks about his plans for compulsory "Universal Service" to the government for all Americans. Perhaps this is the origin of the idea Obama alluded to in his speech and that got this thread going? One thing is sure. He's not talking about the FBI.
The interview is about an hour and you can watch it at the following link. The part about universal service starts at around 5:37.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=193888-1&clipStart=&clipStop=
Here is my transcript of that part.
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RAHM EMANUEL: Citizenship is not an entitlement program. It comes with responsibilities. And in every stage in American history, where our leaders have asked our citizens to engage in what is their piece of the so called relationship to government that they have to assume as their responsibility, we've come through those challenges stronger and conquering not only the challenge, but stronger as a country. Whether its putting a man on the moon, Peace Corps, the fact we were stronger after AmeriCorps, etc. Citizen Service, um, it deals with I think two fundamental challenges this country has. One, that we are in a long struggle against terrorism, and America is a target and therefore one of the best ways to prepare America is to bring the citizens forward in understanding what their role is going to be - everything from if the levees break, to if there's a chemical attack in this country, or other some type of attack, what role they have, and training the citizens. Everybody somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25 will serve three months of basic training in understanding any kind of civil defense.
Second, the other big challenge of the 21st century, we're clearly a more diverse country than at any point in American history, and we need to make that diversity our strength not our weakness. If everybody just kind of Balkanizes off into separate populations and separate kind of ethnic or economic, or whatever, groups, it is harder and harder to pull us together as a nation in a common mission. That universal sense of service, somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25, will give Americans once again a sense of what they are to be American and their contribution to a country, and a common experience. And you look at World War II, now that was a draft, this is not a draft. Its a universal service.
It was not an accident that we started our big march towards civil rights and expanding post World War II, because the country came through an experience together, understanding that common experience, and that therefore we had things that we had not done here at home to make this country stronger.
INTERVIEWER: So is this compulsory then?
RAHM EMANUEL: Well, you have to uuuh, inaudible require it of everybody, 18 to 25, three months, uh, and at some point at that point you do it. Obviously I'm not going to sit here and perfect legislation. We'll work that process through.
INTERVIEWER: So you could do it during a college summer or you could do it after high school?
RAHM EMANUEL: Anytime, right. And if you want to go beyond, that is you want to do six months, and you want to dedicate it, you know, uh your college education to uuuh, we'll also pay for a year if you go beyond the three months, not three months and two days, but six months or longer, we'll help defer the costs of the first year of college education. Because I think any time somebody serves their country in some capacity we're going to be stronger for it, and it builds bridges among communities that are now pulling apart, and gives them that common experience. And I think that would be, uh Bruce and I believe that that would be one of the strongest things to building a sense of nationalism, patriotism, and commitment to country, and understanding that if you take responsibility, the doors of opportunity will be open.