Posted on 11/07/2008 9:20:01 AM PST by Khepri
America Serves
"When you choose to serve -- whether it's your nation, your community or simply your neighborhood -- you are connected to that fundamental American ideal that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not just for ourselves, but for all Americans. That's why it's called the American dream."
The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.
I wonder if one of those middle school volunteers helped to write up his website.
Just the same way you "voluntarily" pay your federal income tax.
You still have the choice, but the choice will be much more easy to make: serve or go to jail.
See? Isn't that change? Doesn't that give you hope?
Volunteering yourself is a good thing, and I have done my share, but requirement does away with the voluntary part - will the press call him on this or follow along while their guy morphs the meaning of the word? We tried to warn them.
This is a large aspect of his reparations plan. We and our children will be required to be slaves, and I’m sure there will be many loopholes/exclusions for others, more than likely based on them descending from slavery, so they’ve already done their part.
Hopefully, he can do very little in the time he’s in office.
Acorn on steroids.
Right out of Castro’s handbook for all Cubans.
mandatory community service... I thought only criminals got that.
Funny. I don’t think there are enough volunteer hours to go around.
They have ‘forced volunteerism’ in Maryland and have for years. I have always wondered what part of ‘volunteerism’ is supposed to be ‘forced’ and why that lovely bunch at the ACLU do not find it unconstitutional??
“They already do that in California”
Yes, and then they imported it to Colorado. 15 years ago they tried it out in my daughter’s high school and recruited kids who were at the top of their classes. They put the kids on this bizarre program that included building a “Portfolio” but didn’t include the standard Math, Science, and English lessons. Instead it included requirements like community service. AND the community service had to be in their “approved” programs, not just any 401c(3) organization.
When I found out about this program, I told them that I wanted my daughter taken out and put back into regular classes. They said that once the child started in this program they couldn’t go back. I was furious and I took her out of school for homeschooling until I could arrange a move to some other state. We moved to Allen, Texas where they had traditional education.
If that’s what Obama wants to do, more and more kids won’t be able to read but will still graduate with honors!
Can I assign my child’s 50 hours to help the Minuteman Project and American Border Patrol keep illegals out?
One more reason not to enroll our children in the pagan academies AKA socialist government schools.
What is it with all you newbies? Are you all just trolls? Or are all of you new kids really that stupid?
Many parents will take their kids out of the public schools and both faith based schools as well as home schooling will take off bigtime.
Obama SpyCorps
We did that in communist Eastern Europe in the Fifties.
I want to see Obama out picking up trash. It is a job he might be competent to do.
Shouldn’t your name be the “Neighbor of the Neighbor of the Beast?”
Or maybe “Across The Street Neighbor of the Beast”?
All hail our glorious leader.
You must not be familiar with the penumbra.
“Sending a child to government school really ought to be considered child abuse. “
Maybe not child abuse, but definitely foolhardy, ignorance and a grave threat to the survival of faith, freedom, liberty and a sovereign Republic.
Suburban kids will have this held over their heads in order to graduate, and the inner city kids simply won’t do it, because they do no care if they graduate.
Kind of like gun laws, which punish the wrong group of people.
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