In case there is any doubt, I do not think that this is a good idea. A call for volunteers is an admission that the social contract between the people and society is a failure. That contract is one entered into by the people with the state to provided stability and security and the state provides these things in return for the support of the people. The problem is the state has degraded into a sort of “dictatorship”, where it defines the terms on its own terms and disregards the concerns of the people.

Volunteerism is used to make up for the shortfall in the services provided by the state. This scheme is forcing the individual to take responsibility for the services of the state. While the individual is doing “his” part to help those less fortunate, they are inadvertently assuming the responsibilities of the state, and thus allowing the state to gut all domestic programs.

I say–it is time for the state and its “elected” leaders to be forced to honor the terms of the contract that they have with the people of the US. It is time for the people to become the most important factor in the social contract that they have with the state.  It is time for the domestic policies to become the priority of the politicians and the country, then volunteers would not be needed.