[speaker001:] huh okay
[speaker002:] I don't know how much I know about this subject
[speaker001:] well I don't know if I know anything or not but I've I've got some opinions on it see those type of people that that have the most opinions ones at don't know anything
[speaker002:] yeah okay go ahead yeah
[speaker001:] well uh I've had teenagers and I now have grandchildren that are teenagers and I don't know that it might do them a little bit of good to see the world from a different perspective uh I think this me generation has gone far too far and the young people are overly impressed and I think it wouldn't hurt them to step back from themselves just slightly and see things from a more far more disadvantaged viewpoint
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] uh I personally know nothing about the Peace Corps though
[speaker002:] um me either I I went to college and then started working and then got married and
[speaker001:] but they have I read somewhere and I'm I'm out on a limb here some type of college uh volunteer work for teachers that they are straight out of college and they do one year of volunteer work teaching in the uh lower income brackets of the United States have you ever heard about that one
[speaker002:] no I haven't I know that uh my sister I have a twin sister and when she graduated she went to teach in a small town down in south Texas and I know that like if you have college notes if you teach in a lower income bracket where they don't pay as much and they cancel part of your you know your college note or whatever
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] um-hum if it's like you know really a you know a lower paying job you know where in a small town you don't obviously you don't need as much as far as to you know to live
[speaker001:] and this is money that she's borrowed to for her college education
[speaker002:] yeah she only taught there one year but I
[speaker001:] but she got credits for it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that's very interesting
[speaker002:] and um I think it would be I know that also one of my cousins who uh he is in like the therapy type thing and and he was um some group paid part of his college income but then he was required to go back and work for a certain number of years in this town at uh uh I mean it's a nursing home or something like that so you know if if I think that that's a good way for people to you know maybe get people to come back to these small towns to work by helping
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] people that normally might not be able to go to college and get the type of degree they want
[speaker001:] yeah I think that is an excellent program I really do I like that and it's it's beneficial to the small towns too because they really really
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] have have a disadvantage that we don't understand because we're in the Metroplex
[speaker002:] as far as getting yeah getting doctors and all that kind of stuff yeah
[speaker001:] right you know if if we had some really major health problem that required a specialist we could find one it wouldn't be convenient
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but we could find one we wouldn't have to drive and spend the night someplace or something like that
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] so I I can see the advantage to that one the Peace Corps itself is really uh uh dying out isn't it
[speaker002:] I really don't know that much about it you know I I I think of the Peace Corps you know more like the sixties and that kind of stuff when but yeah and don't they go into other countries and stuff
[speaker001:] it's still in existence I want to believe they go into other countries and teach them how to do things like farm
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh dig their own wells set up their schools
[speaker002:] things that make them yeah make them more self-supporting yeah
[speaker001:] yes they it's not a program to teach them to use the American money it's a program to teach them to be more self-reliant
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] and yes you're right I think it's a sixties program I think it was one of Kennedy's hot points that he that was his big deal
[speaker002:] but it definitely would give a lot of the kids now that have everything given to them that they want to see what it's like if you don't have all the money and can't have what you want when you want it
[speaker001:] right right um I think I I I I've singled out my grandchildren and but actually they're they're pretty good
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] along those lines as compared to what I have seen from other people's children and grandchildren mine aren't really that bad but at the same time I think it would do them a world of good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but there's a
[speaker002:] I don't I don't know that you could require everyone to to do that for yeah to do it for a whole year or two years or something like that I don't know that that would work if if somebody's
[speaker001:] mandatory just like like the draft no every time you have
[speaker002:] was didn't really want to be there and didn't have yeah I mean there'd be loopholes just like there is in anything else
[speaker001:] they could buy their way out right you know they they'd figure a way around that one in a heartbeat but I'm wondering if there's another issue here and maybe this is why this has died out can you go into and this wasn't the question but it's it may be the more of the issue versus should young adults can they go in there and can anyone go into well out of the Kurdish community is a little bit of extreme at this time but say I think Bangladesh would have been a good example or some some really desperate situation and teach them to farm and teach them and doesn't do any good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I don't know that it does I I I don't know that um
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] if you step back from the current issue and look at it more intellectually there are forever over as long as we know there are races of people that are dropping out you know we're losing certain races of people there are people now
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that are obsolete point and fact just just like endangered species of animals so there are quote tribes of people that are endangered or obsolete
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I'm just wondering if you're fighting a natural process there of being winnowed out there's a German word for it that's elegant but I never can remember what it was uh but but they're they're being winnowed because they're where they are they're not adapted to their environment essentially
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] um and uh one of the quick examples is the aborigines
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] uh when we were in Australia uh sad little things uh I felt sorry for them because their society isn't there anymore and their belief system and all all their structured of theirs all the structures of their society are gone essentially
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and they're just kind of more like a side show than anything else and that's sad but I don't think there's any way you could go uh the Peace Corps could go in and rescue those people and I that don't think you could have done it fifty or a hundred years ago either
[speaker002:] yeah really yeah
[speaker001:] so I I'm wondering if the Peace Corps is really an effective tool
[speaker002:] well and here with the Peace Corps we're talking about all these people that aren't even in our own country when there's enough people here that I think probably need help and could be helped
[speaker001:] good point we've got enough without leave without a passport there's plenty
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yes I think we ought to worry about our own species
[speaker002:] and maybe rather than just require somebody to join like the Peace Corps for a year maybe like um during college you know maybe have some kind of course where they'd be required to do some kind of community service type work and help people in that area or people in the United States
[speaker001:] I wonder now in and I've been out of school too long to answer this but I wonder if there aren't some sociology courses
[speaker002:] there probably are you know for but I'm sure that's probably like people that do that are social are the people that are going to go into social work and stuff but I think that it wouldn't really be half bad for everybody not to do something you know and realize that it's everybody's responsibility to um help these people you know and not I'm not saying just give them money but I mean because they have to be taught to be yeah I mean I know that's what my father-in-law was talking about you know when you give these people
[speaker001:] that's the last thing you want to do
[speaker002:] money or what was it they were bringing up points asking as far as whether they need to give um more money to these people I mean and that's not really the answer I mean because if they're alcoholics they'll just go out and spend it on you know booze or something like that but
[speaker001:] yeah that's exactly it they're not going to take that money you give them and go try to figure out a way to dry out with it now come on let's be realistic that's just not realistic
[speaker002:] yeah or you know to find a job where they can learn how to support themselves I mean
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] I guess we're getting kind of off the subject here but yeah I mean it's
[speaker001:] no we're not I don't think I think that's more realistic than going making them go in the Peace Corps
[speaker002:] true yeah
[speaker001:] I think that's a lot more realistic uh I I think that we should be spending more time and and again I don't think the the Peace Corps is is as successful now simply because it's not it doesn't fit the circumstance anymore
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh we've got plenty in fact we've got far too many you're in uh what Flower Mound
[speaker002:] Flower Mound yeah so we're a little farther you know farther removed from like Dallas and some of the areas where they probably have more of the homeless and that type of thing
[speaker001:] I was that's exactly what I was going to ask you have you ever have have you been downtown recently