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Honestly I'm all for it. It gives you some understanding how food is produced, gives you some contact with nature, maybe some physical exercise, some respect for farm workers, and such.
edit: after thinking about it, i'm NOT all for it. i'm against all forms of forced labor.
while corporations get free labor win win for them!
Make it so the farmer has to pay the median wage to anyone drafted like this.
I bet they'll shut up real fast.
Hell back in HS we got first shot at detasseling corn and deroguing beans. I lasted a day, some boys lasted a few. By the time they brought in the mexicans a week later, there would be maybe 2 of the scariest foodball players left, and they did make decent money by the end of their little stint.
Your average person is going to get heatstroke from this.
I totally would but I dont want to take a job away from those hardworking American farmers. They've fought too hard to win them back and would just be a shame to take them all away again.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that Kelly is over 30?
/ owns a farm and doesn’t realize the logistics of training tens of thousands of new farm hands who do not want to be there every season.
Calling a single policy Maoist because it was implemented by the Maoist regime is the same as calling the concept of socialised healthcare a Nazi policy because it was implemented by the Nazi regime.
I neither agree nor disagree with this policy on the basis that I don't know enough about the logistics and implementation to give an informed opinion, but to refer to it as Maoist is glib and incorrect as Malaysia, Zambia and Nigeria already have agricultural national service and, although Malaysia is a communist country, none of them are aligned with the CCP or the Maoist Revolutionary movement.
Its basically a parody of how every right leaning idiot calls boring right leaning centrists like Democrats "Extreme Left Communism".
The nazis did not implement national Healthcare. That was something done by Bismarck. And Bismarck was no bleeding heart liberal.
American citizens can't afford to live on farm wages.
Huh. Well what if we built areas with housing and transit cheap enough that farm wages are enough to live on?
not the worst idea really; community or civil service would be better. especially outside the town you’re from.
my high school made everyone do 40 hours community service and the connections and friends I made then still stand today and I live thousands of miles away now
Forced labor is never a good idea. Best solution for the kids would be to coordinate with others and burn all the fields in conjunction. Would bring the country to its knees begging other countries for assistance with food. The government would likely collapse and give up on the forced labor as soon as possible.
"The slaves acted like terrorists."
It's not like they had a choice what country they were born in.
1 Maoism
2 ???
3 wait 30 years
4 economy multiplies to 10000x it’s original size
I dunno, the math is pretty compelling
Don't get caught wearing glasses around maga.... Wouldn't wanna get called a "reader"