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originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
I would assume volunteering would be in local community centers, or picking up trash, or the like, not booting someone out of a job. That sort of thing wouldn't threaten anyone's paid job.
Who do you think picks up trash already? It doesn't magically get picked up.
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
I would assume volunteering would be in local community centers, or picking up trash, or the like, not booting someone out of a job. That sort of thing wouldn't threaten anyone's paid job.
Who do you think picks up trash already? It doesn't magically get picked up.
A lot of that along the highways is already done by volunteers, or people on some sort of restitution sort of program,, in lieu of jail time. Volunteering in a homeless shelter is another option, or at hospitals, in their volunteer programs. There are plenty of places people volunteer that would work. We aren't talking about home trash pickup here.
originally posted by: raymundoko
a reply to: JohnnyCanuck
No, highway cleaning has always been a job for prisoners and community service...some places may have privatized it, but for the most part it is a service provided by those completing a judicial sentence.
Edit: Oh, NM, you are from Canada. They don't have prisoners.
Also, there have always been hospital volunteer programs for hospitals. Candy Stripers jump out as one type of volunteer, typically done by teenage girls over the summer who want to be nurses or doctors one day, but in more recent times the term Candy Striper has just been changed to Hospital Volunteer and men and women volunteer.
originally posted by: JohnnyCanuck
I think you are missing the point that a lot of those volunteer activities used to be jobs. There is always lots of money for huge military boondoggles, but somehow not enough to feed your people. What if that money for arms, and interfering in other country's business went, instead, towards infrastructure projects? Good jobs, injecting money into the economy and taxes back to the government. Of course, it's a whole lot easier to blame the unfortunate than to do anything to improve their lot.