In order to begin saving the world soon -- lest it be 100+ CO2 parts per million too late -- this legislative proposal needs a Grand Pubba of marketing, communication, and divinification. Yu da man. And you know it!
Imagine The Colbert Nation funneling a million Americans a year for 27 years into voluntary national service under the tutelage of existing successful do-good organizations.
Imagine the worldwide inspiration you will ignite as you use the Colbert nation campaign to build an army of voters clamoring to enact the AWSC proposed legislation.
As you buff the size and abilities of such AWSC organizations as Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat, Doctors Without Borders, Head Start, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, TechnoServe, Heifer International, FINCA, effective local non-profits, in-need schools, etc., the gratefulness of America and the world's peoples will mushroom organically, in contradistinction to the mushroom clouds other leaders seem to encourage.
AWSC's platoons of already functioning volunteers, working through Head Start and as teaching assistants, could lower class ratios and allow it to reach the other 50% of un-served Head Start children. In urban areas, they could engage with local community development movements. In other areas, they could bolster conservation and public works projects.
Then, as the legislation is written to do, we will watch with pride how your verbal dexterity moves other nations to build their own World Service Corps. You will have shifted the world's overtaxed and bloody warfare distractions to cheap and lovely service corps games.
Instead of expensively outfitting with Star Wars uniforms, most of our AWSC volunteers will don t-shirts and sandals. At home and abroad, more and more kids with food in tummy and smiles on perfect faces will proliferate.
Further out, as those sentient beings, yet unaccounted for in Biblical verse, observe from UFOs and galaxies far, far away" a universal stampede will require your show's renaming to The Colbert Galaxies.
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