Do you support mandatory national service for Welfare Recipients? [View All]

[KaraokeKarlton]

Some people here believe we should force high school students to do more "volunteer" activities in order to receive a high school diploma. These kids already have a lot of responsibilities and work to do in school, with school activities and part time jobs. However, there are many welfare recipients who stand to gain a lot more by having to do this community work, and they are being supported by the community already. The times I've seen this subject of making welfare recipients work or get job training, the opposition has been very strong. Yet there are some here who think it's perfectly okay to make those same demands from kids who are already doing an awful lot. I find this to be very hypocritical and wrong. Who needs to learn job skills more than those on welfare? I'd really appreciate someone explaining to me why it's okay to force kids to do community service in order to get a diploma but why it's not okay to force welfare recipients to do community service in order to get assistance.