[speaker002:] uh you know I when I was much younger uh than I am now I I had wanted to go to the Peace Corps and uh seems like I it it was something that I I really wanted wanted to do
[speaker001:] can you speak up please
[speaker002:] seems like wanting to go to the Peace Corps was something that I had really wanted to do when I was young
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] but uh I don't believe they accept you after you you know after you're married and you have uh kids and all that so I got into that and I wasn't able to
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] to uh participate
[speaker001:] but they will accept you later in life also
[speaker002:] oh they will
[speaker001:] yeah after your children are grown
[speaker002:] oh I didn't know that
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] then there's no age limit
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] your kidding
[speaker001:] no I'm not some of the people that have been involved with Peace Corps among other things were retired teachers uh there was a retired plumber that went to uh uh Uruguay I think and helped them quite a bit with concepts in plumbing you know providing for a for better public hygiene
[speaker002:] goodness I'm surprised I really had no idea
[speaker001:] yeah but so do you think that people should be required to give a couple years for the good of the country
[speaker002:] well I don't I don't really think that they should they should be it should be mandatory I mean
[speaker001:] why
[speaker002:] well I don't know I it's that just might not be something that everybody wants to do I mean there are a lot of people who would like to do it and there are a lot of people who get into other things and they get all involved and they just you know don't want to or don't have the time
[speaker001:] well I understand but if it were told to us that we would find the time somewhere between our seventeenth and uh twenty sixth birthday to give a year or two to the to the country in the form of maybe building better roads or the parks service or the Peace Corps or something you know the military service or something wouldn't we have uh maybe a better class of Americans
[speaker002:] I don't see how that can can make a better class of Americans to make everybody to make it mandatory for everybody to participate
[speaker001:] a lot of these people a lot of our uh pardon the terminology but yuppies now are interested in one thing and one thing only and that's themselves
[speaker002:] that's true well I don't I don't think that
[speaker001:] and at least if you legislated giving for a couple years of their lives or or uh a actually purely giving but but some sort of equitable exchange then at least the country would have gotten two years from them where hum they would have given something to the country instead of take taking away all their lives
[speaker002:] yeah are are you suggesting then that if if uh if I have to go and and do something for the country for two years that the country will compensate me in some way
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] I I will be compensated for this I'm not just going to
[speaker001:] give them your time give them your entire life for two years no
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] it will be a job of sorts I'm sure that the Peace Corps pays it doesn't pay well it's not top wages
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but but it does pay
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the military for young hiring in soldiers does pay it doesn't pay well
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] okay currently in our country especially in some regions there's an employment problem
[speaker002:] that that that's true but in even in our region there's an employment problem there's a lot of uh
[speaker001:] you're aware of that I'm sure
[speaker002:] people gotten laid off lately you know from companies like General Dynamics and Texas Instruments
[speaker001:] and Texas Instruments
[speaker002:] thousands and thousands of people are out there looking for jobs
[speaker001:] you know in in another time we had the WPA
[speaker002:] no no
[speaker001:] Works Progress Administration
[speaker002:] I'm not familiar with that
[speaker001:] during the great depression
[speaker002:] oh I
[speaker001:] though I can't see why it was great uh that gave people pay that was halfway between relief which was welfare
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and the minimum wage
[speaker002:] I see and that was that was some some some program where people gave their time
[speaker001:] in trade for
[speaker002:] in trade for
[speaker001:] money
[speaker002:] some money okay
[speaker001:] and and living they gave them food and uniforms and uh here in Colorado you'll find a great many things public roads that were worked on by the WPA uh dams that were built by the WPA uh scenic overlooks parks
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] we are road our road system's falling apart our our national road system system of highways
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and roads is falling apart
[speaker002:] well then I guess there are a lot of a lot of things that people could do to contribute to the good of the country
[speaker001:] there there's a lot of work to be done
[speaker002:] um-hum I really I really don't see anything wrong with it I just don't think that it should be mandatory that every person have to do that
[speaker001:] I I can't see the problem in it for a year the
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] what what I'm saying is that if it were mandatory that every person right after graduation from high school
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] that were able bodied
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] would give a year well or not give a year but but trade a year then they at least one not more than say three or four then it would definitely effect unemployment
[speaker002:] all right I wonder if if they didn't make it mandatory if they would actually get enough people volunteering to to to do it that it you know that they would have enough
[speaker001:] I don't know
[speaker002:] I mean I I probably
[speaker001:] well you know Texas New Mexico Colorado huge numbers of other western states have no real welfare system
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] there's Aid to Dependent Children and Aid to Mothers of Dependent Children but there's no real welfare system
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but if we took these people off off the streets for a year there would darn sure be more hours labor available in the nation for everyone else and who knows maybe some of our graduating high school seniors might would find out a little bit more the what the traditional American work ethic means you know we have had some problem with that in recent years
[speaker002:] oh well yes we have with with uh recent generations I I know exactly what you are talking about I I mean I know several people who do not wish wish to work
[speaker001:] uh they wish only for the paycheck
[speaker002:] well they wish for the money and they they decide that they're going to get the money anyway they can with you know without uh without without working in the the traditional American
[speaker001:] really producing
[speaker002:] job market
[speaker001:] yeah be it selling drugs or whatever
[speaker002:] right so what I'm saying they they get the money anyway they can
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and maybe if we instilled the work ethic you know I enjoy the I enjoy working
[speaker002:] yeah