If terms are 2-year, then you need 2.5 million recruits a year. Which still means conscription.
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Got it, numbers don't make sense without conscription. That said, maybe she's just unrealistic + counting on older people as well?
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It's like social security--you can get a boost at the beginning of the program but in the steady state, it's fucked.
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"She's just inflating the numbers" well maybe, but it would be a staggering white elephant at a tenth of the size...
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...and part of the selling point is that they're trying to make it an "expectation"https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/782800885101522944 …
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5 million is a little too close to 5.2 million to be a coincidence.
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Fascist MFs in Washington try to relaunch "national service" every decade or so, talking out both sides of their mouths.
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Alternately "well of course it's voluntary" and "it would be so good for us (ie not us, but kids) to be required".
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I could see colleges + so on making it a soft requirement for political reasons.
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Yeah, plausible that she baits it with student loan forgiveness. But Americorps already does that.
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