Via Executive Determination of March of 2023, a National Service Requirement was implemented for all college-age individuals. This service requirement was for an eight- to ten-week internship to occur once during a student’s undergraduate education in order to apply processes connected to meeting federal outlays consistent with funding her or his undergraduate education.

 

Terms are to be after:

 

1. Summer between second and third year

2. Summer between third and fourth year

 

For this past summer, there were students also from the summer between the first and second year; in future years the above two terms are to be the primary terms for consideration unless a specific exception is made. 

 

This past summer internships were engaged for the periods between:

 

1. June 19, 2023 and August 11, 2023

2. June 19, 2023 and August 25, 2023

 

Several internships were conceived and moved on.

 

The four main internships of concern involved the following topics:

 

Eight-week internships:

• Supreme Court History with emphasis on biography and geography

• New York Police Commission of 1895 with focus on how events from Civil War impacted activities and events associated with work of the Police Commission

 

Ten-week internships:

• Supreme Court precedent mapping (intended to be annually available)

• State Constitutions

 

For the first term of 2023, “Senator Charity Colleen Crouse (TX-I)” sponsored and facilitated the internship on the New York Police Commission of 1895 with focus on how events from the Civil War impacted activities and events associated with work of the Police Commission. Two hours from each work day were devoted to review of a primary text and consideration of the factual information and the additional context provided by other sources, including in consideration of more current events and the implications. Upon the completion of the internship, participants were given a Certificate of Completion of the internship with dates to follow-up.

 

The National Service Requirement Department is being implemented as a federal agency responsible for coordinating the future activities of the National Service Requirement in multiple manners:

 

1. Outreach and coordination of those who will be sponsoring the summer internships. This is to provide a foundation for providing college-age students with practical experience in government operations, including federal government departments/agencies, but also state and local agencies. 

2. Coordinating educational materials to inform people of the purpose and process of the National Service Requirement. This includes information on federal budgeting processes and progress connected to outlays that have already been engaged and those planned based upon the work of the previous and subsequent summer internship programs. 

3. Coordinating federal with state and local agencies participating in the National Service Requirement program. Service in the program is not limited to federal agency participation; a unit of the department will be responsible for coordinating with interested state and local agencies to coordinate for those students interested in participating in more local efforts.

4. Congressional and Senate communications. This includes not only working with individual office holders and their staffs who sponsor specific internships, but also working with relevant committees – including appropriations and other committees involved in what would be the specific proposed outlays – to identify existing departmental needs in accordance with the contribution from the summer internships and to account for the anticipated contributions in the requisite time frame. 

5. Internal budgeting and compliance. This will assess the specific situations with student participants and assure that the proposed outlays per student are coordinated and provided with support in the requisite time frame. This is a process that will engage each student beyond their years as an undergraduate. 

6. Reprogramming and compliance.

7. Taxation and coordination for considerations of revenue versus debt as obligation.

 

The primary premise is an understanding that regardless of whether one is a “worker” at an agency or a “consumer” at an agency, they are still participants in “outlay” processes connected to agency activities, which includes “appropriations” and other matters pertaining to that agency’s funding. Matters pertaining to “public service” participation and “private sector” participation are also attended to regarding the necessary role of the interaction between the private sector and the government when it comes to matters regarding constitutional duties and rights. The foundation is to be set by grounding the National Service Requirement in a peer-directed process of understanding and applying the Constitution when considering the intersection of the State and Civil Society, as well as other areas of National Development. 

 

The National Service Requirement is also being coordinated with a ten-year strategy regarding primary school education that was begun officially in 2017 and involves outlays already engaged in and by February of 2015 with a specific “start” date of July 2, 2015. The anticipated completion date of the primary education strategy is July 2, 2025. This is to coordinate with the first announcements of investment in and via the appropriations process regarding the National Service Requirement and its relationship with education in the United States, as well as cooperation with other countries regarding their primary and higher education paradigms.

 

More than that, this is about understanding that “federal student loans” are NOT loans – they are outlays. The issues concerning current contextualizations of “student loan debt” and the attendant processes of “forgiveness” or “debt resale” have been proven ineffective on a national and local level, regardless of whether the primary consideration is its public or private sector impact. This program is both an effort to correct for historical inadequacies that have presented significant challenges and to provide a foundation for supporting youth leadership into national leadership without being primarily obligated to “pay for the debts” for which older generations are responsible.

 

It is possible to end childhood poverty. In order to do so, among the primary actions that must be put at the forefront are a REFUSAL to illegally obligate persons too young to “contract” for their own rights to debts someone else that IS old enough to contract for their own rights has put into effect.

 

This cycle has persisted for generations but can end now. There is no “secret” to how these financial processes work and critique of the systems at hand is a benefit on a personal, societal and national level.

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The development of critical thinking and support for its active proliferation is the most important national and personal resource we have to offer each other.

 

With that in mind, the National Service Requirement Department is allotted a budget of $1.2 billion to begin its formal operations. Hiring will begin On Feb. 26, 2024 and will be open until April 5, 2024. Thereafter, significant work needs to be engaged in an expeditious manner to prepare for Summer of 2024 and to begin to implement the commitments we have to our future leadership to prepare their foundation for moving forward.

 

More information is forthcoming.

 

UPDATE: FORMAL APPLICATION PROCESS AVAILABLE NOW by 11 am EST on Feb. 26, 2024.

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9:49 am CST

Feb. 25, 2024

Co-President Charity Colleen “Lovejoy” Crouse

 

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