Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2011 Comments Off on A Time to Serve
A government is like any other living thing. Its exists as long as its constituent parts perform their functions. Since our government claims to be a republic (i.e. democracy), it cannot openly coerce individuals to play their roles, but instead it must rely on their good will. The article seems to associate the decline of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2011 Comments Off on time to serve
This article is about how the government is failing to ensure what was promised when the founders set the foundation for the United States. As the article states nowadays people seem to care less. Only half of the citizens vote and everybody just pays taxes. Their plan to change this has to come with incentives […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2011 Comments Off on A Time To Serve
Basically what is being said in the article “A Time To Serve” is that a republic needs the cooperation of its citizens in order for it to thrive. It then proceeds to make points on how important it is for citizens to actively participate in society, and then how in recent years more people were […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2011 Comments Off on A time to serve
It is evident that the framer’s pessimistic ideals in the survival of the American “Republic” were not to no avail. The American republic, due to to the natural nature of humans, has in the past faltered because of the lack of participation from the people in order to preserve it. However, in modern day society as the confidence in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2011 Comments Off on A Time to Serve
Interesting article, especially intriguing is discovering that our government spends $10 billion a month during the Iraqi war. Additionally, the fact that almost $10 billion dollars is spent on the federal prison system every year is outrageous and simultaneously ridiculous. As for the bulk of the article, a universal national service system sounds ideal but […]