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FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts) Thu Apr 5, 2012, 01:23 PM Apr 2012

New trial baloon/product roll-out

MPR had a virtual infomercial for MANDATORY national service this morning.

Look at their poll:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/daily_circuit/archive/2012/04/poll-should-we-require-a-year-of-national-service.shtml?refid=0

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New trial baloon/product roll-out (Original Post) FiveGoodMen Apr 2012 OP

Mandatory? Not bloody likely. RC Apr 2012 #1

RC

(25,592 posts)

1. Mandatory? Not bloody likely.

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Original post)

Thu Apr 5, 2012, 02:02 PM

Apr 2012

Even if the sole exception to opt out was that you had to be comatose^*, the rich would use it to get out of 'serving'.

^*Word is not on banned word list, as far as is known at posting time.

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