What do you need to show in an entry-level or college entrance resume? Competence. Balance. Passion and direction. These last two are the things most people overlook as assets on a resume. As a result, those resumes which do address passion will stand out to an employer or a college official.

The reputation of today’s youth – deserved or not – is that this generation is more apathetic and less engaged with life in general than previous generations. My eldest daughter’s experience of secular youth in college bears that out. “Nobody has any idea what they want to do or what’s even possible. It’s maddening!” she says. Young people who have begun to explore what they can do in society and what they might become passionate about are youth whom older adults want to promote.

There are a number of ways to show this kind of initiative. One of the most unexplored is political action. Many are reluctant to include political action on a resume for fear that officials will disagree with the position their action supported. However, given the current policy of the vast majority of colleges and businesses to include as many viewpoints as possible, and given the perception that a student who is willing to engage his world is a rare commodity, this fear may be unfounded.

The current multi-trillion dollar bailout provides unique opportunity for youth political action. Deficit spending on this scale imposes a slave-load of tax liabilities on children, even on children not yet born. They have had no voice in this bailout debate or in the elections that made it possible. That is taxation without representation. That is tyranny. This generation of youth and the children who follow them will have been born into slavery.

We should not let this go unremarked. But the youth themselves can be the most effective advocates against this kind of retroactive slavery and tax tyranny.

Michelle Malkin, Smart Girl Politics, New American Tea Party, Tax Day Tea Party, and a host of other bloggers and pundits are calling for the organization of hundreds of latter day Boston Tea Parties to protest this ridiculous taxation. Already, dozens of cities across the nation are organizing protests for Tax Day, April 15th and for Independence Day, July 4.  The prototype Tea Party was held on Feb 27th, with good news coverage and hundreds of people begging for more opportunities to express their disgust and outrage.

I think young people have a special piece to add to the general protest against this violent take-over of American wallets.  Young people have the distinction of being the disenfranchised in this case.  Young people didn’t vote. Young people had no representation, yet they and their children and their grandchildren are the ones who will bear the brunt of this tax.

Young people have the standing to call it tyranny in the best American Revolutionary tradition.  They could also spearhead a movement calling on state legislatures and governors to refuse stimulus package money. Tell your state, “Don’t drink King Barak’s tea!”  The media will be all over you for sound bites and even interviews.  Teens don’t usually have coherent arguments. It should be a Carpe Diem Cadre moment.

If you decide to spearhead a Tea Party, or to add the youth dimension to an already-planned event, comment here.  I’ll post video of your event.  I’ll post your Tea Party speech, and consider you for Carpe Diem Cadre membership.  Great resume development all around!

(Hat tip to Conservative Underground for the graphic)