okay
well go ahead i'll let you start
uh i was thinking about whether or not we should have people
uh be required to do service public service for a year or two and i was thinking that you needed to put some waivers in there for the handicapped and also for people that had to stay home and maybe be wage earners for their family
uh-huh
or they had somebody at home that was ill that they had to tend to i mean you can't make it everybody
right yeah
but then you need to make it sure that the rich people can't buy somebody off and and maybe send them in their place or or get out of it some other way
too
um-hum or it could be like the draft where you know before they draft you they take you you get a physical anyway so when they send you a draft notice and then they give you a physical and if there's nothing physically wrong with you then you're drafted it doesn't matter how rich you are
and then we could maybe give physicals to the rest of the family members right
that would be good
what'd you say
give physicals to the rest of the family members and they all had to pass
oh yeah
uh i thought it a good idea too though would be to extend this and make people that are accepting public welfare have to do something along this line before they got any money
uh
uh-huh
and uh if they did this maybe help them out in their college cost and maybe they could pay people for doing this at least something so they could could subsist
that's true
um-hum
well that's true the America's paying all this money to have other people give uh aid to other countries so they could be paying their own people and training their own people at the same time
yeah
because actually when you when you do uh service overseas you end up learning something usually that's that's really useful plumbing or farming or or something like that so you're really learning a skill
yeah and you know all these old people they would get out of this right all the ones that are already retired so what could we could do is take all the retired people that are going around in their big mobile homes
and they could do public service all over the country i'm just teasing
what'd you say
um-hum
yeah i i think well that's probably the idea i don't know whether their idea is to be within the country or outside the country
well i thought it'd be a good idea if maybe you took the some of the kids and had them go over to other countries and children from their countries came over to ours too
a trade off
yeah that would be neat yeah sort of like an exchange program uh-huh
yeah
and other than that i can't think of any other ideas
yeah that'd be sort of neat
yeah well i like the idea of uh being uh a mandatory thing for welfare course that's what um that's sort of like what Truman had or or was it Roosevelt i can't remember um with the big
oh with WPA
yeah
yeah
uh-huh
getting people or the work the work program and all the all the make work jobs that was sort of public service in a way all the highways they started building
and we're still using those things too
what'd you say
we're still using those things
yeah that's true a lot of them still out there like all these wonderful highways in West Virginia and no one knows why
they built lodges before too like at Caddo Lake
lake what
Caddo Lake
Caddo Lake
it's between Texas and Louisiana
no never heard of it
it crosses into both of them well it's real pretty it's like a swamp you know with all the Spanish moss on the trees it's really it's eerie yeah
oh
oh okay real pretty like a swamp oh yeah yeah oh okay yeah i been uh i got uh talked to someone else before that was a uh
a Texan but i guess that's uh that's what we're going to have this is uh a TI experiment to see how talk Texans talk to other people
i don't know where are you from
uh Virginia
Virginia oh that's neat i talked to somebody from Ohio the other night
oh yeah it is neat to get other people especially since you got other ideas about how people uh how people react to things and stuff
especially when it comes to um social services uh i'm i'm i'm glad they have a lot of uh um you know topics on social services because
um-hum
like this thing this is a pretty good idea i didn't even know they were thinking about it i wonder if they thought about it themselves or whether someone somewhere is really uh thinking that uh it'd be a good idea to have everybody spend some time in public service
there is somebody and i read uh i can't remember who it is but there's a really famous
of dang i can't remember his name yeah that proposed it i read something in People about it huh Mitch Snider i don't know who Mitch Snider is
politician is pushing it or uh
or Mitch Snider
or Mitch Snider
oh okay well see that's a DC thing Mitch Snider is the the advocate for the homeless
that uh he he said said said it out here in Washington uh Washington but he started the um uh the movement for creative nonviolence
yeah
yeah he started that and that that was basically a you know donate time and money to uh help the homeless but uh
so what have your other topics been
excuse uh the other topic was like i said uh something about politicians i can't remember exactly what it was it was a real general statement
i had one that i hated it was what meal would you cook for uh a special dinner i mean how far can you go with that one right and another one though that was good was uh
gee whiz
yeah
what do you think about the social changes for the last ten twenty and thirty years and what do you think has caused some of the social problems
that have been it's probably the best one
uh-huh that would be neat
i'd have to basically say my birth yeah
and we had to talk about air pollution too
what do you think's causing it and what should we do about it
um-hum well that would be sort of interesting because then you get people from other countries i mean other parts of the state you know of course Pittsburgh would say you know oh find the better cheaper ways of burning coal you know yeah
uh-huh right
cleaner ways of burning coal and people in the south would say don't burn coal you know
it's because we don't have much coal
oh we have a lot of coal but uh it's uh it's a dirty fuel that's for sure
in Virginia
yeah
well how'd you get into this program
excuse me
how'd you get into this program
how did i get into it oh i'm uh electrical enginee r uh here in Virginia
for TI
no
no
uh no they i'm in telecommunications company and they uh sent it out in our bulk mail so that if any engineers want to participate you know
so does your company have something to do with TI
uh not really i mean no more than any other company you know we buy their parts just as much as anybody else
but uh no no real association with TI other than being in the same industry
hum um-hum
electronics industry
they just uh they just sent out a letter to everybody they does do business with saying that you know if you're interested we're doing a study and
and since
and do you know how much how long this is supposed to go on
i don't know no i don't
that's
i don't either i mean it says just keep on until and they'll notify you at first i was thinking it was just a week because that's all it shows
you know on the schedule but then it seems like it might be longer than a week
um-hum
right
so what do you think we're going to get
what what do you think what
what do you think we're going to get for this
get
yeah money prizes
oh i don't know
do you know anybody that's ever done this
get your own
yeah get your own T I seven four L S thirty two or something what was it
i know TI gets prizes
a little chip
oh yeah i didn't hear about that probably for TI employees yeah
and i was led to believe that if you weren't TI that you get money i'm not TI
oh oh you're not you don't work for Texas Instruments oh okay
huh-uh
let's see one of my friends had a roommate that worked for TI and she saw this on her computer and thought it might be neat so she ran off copies of the thing
oh
oh
and i just signed up for it
oh that's a neat idea uh-huh
yeah
yeah well he's gotten a good mix i i was saying because i've like i said i heard some other people talking they've talked to different people in different states and stuff
uh-huh
that's good especially since you call that one eight hundred number so so probably knock TI's profits margin way down
and it shouldn't be too good right now anyway because they've been laying off so many people
yeah right this is probably some government study program
yeah really so we're footing the bill on our taxes
okay
okay well i enjoyed talking with you
okay well thanks a bunch we'll talk to you later bye
i got to save my two year old from a pile of grapes she's diving into
well i'm going to try to please clean up the house after my two children for about an hour see if we can walk around okay bye
okay we'll i'll talk to you bye-bye
