Posted on 11/19/2008 1:00:53 PM PST by Kukai
Shortly after his election, President-elect Obama set up a new website, change.gov, to promote his future agenda. While most of this website contains the usual political jargon about innovative plans and hope, the section on community service has raised quite a few eyebrows. "The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation's challenges ... 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..."
You read that correctly. Obama apparently wants to institute forced community service for students from middle school to college. This may seem too ridiculous to believe. After all, couldn't this be a mistake made by a webmaster or low-level spokesperson? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Obama's original plan, found on his campaign website reads, "Obama and Biden will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year, and will establish a new tax credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year." Why the change? (pun fully intended) Is this actually the difference between campaign and post-election? Why didn't the Obama campaign simply copy-and-paste the old text and make a few minor changes? They did, eventually, but not before the blogosphere had gone wild with the issue for 24 hours.
It is possible that this was no simple mistake. Obama's new chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (IL), wants to institute three months of "Universal Civil Defense Training" for college-aged Americans. The general idea is that these trained young people would be able to provide aid in the case of a national disaster. Sounds nice, until you realize that, "It's required of everybody, 18 to 25, three months." An interviewer from the New York Daily News discussed the issue with Emanuel, who gave hazy answers on uniforms and barracks. I'm not even kidding, you can listen for yourself on YouTube. He argued that this mandatory service was necessary, "because we have a lot more challenges."
Simply put, this level of incompetence, if that's what it is, is completely inexcusable. Either Barack Obama or his staff have problems understanding the principle of liberty. Sarah Palin was ripped for saying she could see Russia from her house. Obama has gotten away, unscathed by the national media, for suggesting the 13th Amendment be nullified.
Obviously, the Obama plan received enough negative press that it had to be altered - or corrected. There is no chance that Obama and the newly elected Democratic Congress could institute mandatory service for America's youth. The country simply wouldn't stand for it. However, the fact that such a thing may have been considered by the Obama campaign, and is being considered by Obama's new chief of staff is, to say the least, extremely disconcerting.
$40/hour for a high school kid? Is he freakin' joking or is he really that stupid and corrupt?
The best way to tear down Marxism is a.s.a.p. Tear their structures down as they try to start building them.
Give evidence. Come on strong. Remember our recent thrust against amnesty. If the electors actually vote him in, that will have to be done over and over again.
Hey, the college youth types went for this empty suit. Suffer. Just like the draft, which will be next on Obama’s agenda. No right minded would serve in the military that Obama will now destroy.
Here come the labor camps for all those hard working conservatives.
“Sarah Palin was ripped for saying she could see Russia from her house.”
Palin did not say that. She said “from Alaskan land”
Tina Fey said “from my house”.
By the way, ‘The “Mr. I Hate America” President’ can kiss my a$# with his plans for MY time and effort... because thanks to BS Liberal give away’s already in place in this country, I have to work TWO JOBS as it is just to get along!!!
Good luck. I am a judge and I can’t get court-ordered defendants to do community work service in that age group. They would rather do flat jail time. So, now we’ll have even more overcrowded jails for those who refuse to do their community work service which will backfire and instead of assisting the government it will be more of a tax drain. Brilliant.
“Sarah Palin was ripped for saying she could see Russia from her house.”
That was Tina Fey, doofus.
A ONE-TERM so-called president. Bank on it.
This is just too bizarre - coming from the same Marxist, atheist, US-hating libs whose destruction of the Boy Scouts in public facilities, JrROTC training in schools and military recruitment in high school & college.
I believe we are witnessing a new type of uniformed brownshirting coming down the pike - devoid of “God & Country” but based on State and Leader/personality Cultism.
Pray and pray again.
‘get court-ordered defendants to do community work service in that age group. They would rather do flat jail time.’
As a social worker, my daughter has said the same thing many times.
And I’m still amazed when someone speaks about the ‘unfair’ number of inmates we have in this country.
beep-beep-beep-—this number is no longer in service....try calling bora-bora information...
‘we are witnessing a new type of uniformed brownshirting coming down the pike - devoid of “God & Country” but based on State and Leader/personality Cultism.’
We’ve seen this before and it didn’t turn out so well.
Pray!
I might be interested if I can teach/show students how screwed up liberals are, other wise the zero can go pound sand
Ha-Ha!!
Got that, all you young supporters of Obama?? Git yer sorry asses out there on those streets in the ‘hood and WORK!!! And NO talkin’ back, neither!!
I refuse to being FORCED to do FORCED labor.
I’m sure the first tour of duty is the communist propaganda part and those who cause problems, well Ayers said upwards of 25 million Americans will have to be eleminated in order to set up a communist state here.
Come and get me!
Teenage Christians will no doubt be forced to assist in the murder of the unborn.
Teenage Christians will no doubt be forced to assist in the murder of the unborn.
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