Let's ignore the fascism/socialist aspect of this for a moment.
What exactly does Obama expect this group of volunteers to do? I still dont know what our military can't do national security wise.
Let's ignore the fascism/socialist aspect of this for a moment.
What exactly does Obama expect this group of volunteers to do? I still dont know what our military can't do national security wise.
If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and i pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Ben Franklin
Imagine what good we can do if we all joined together, united as followers of Christ - M. Russell Ballard
I guess they could spy on everybody; the post office people refused to do that when Homeland Security floated the idea, so get the kids to spy.
It was done formally in both the Soviet Union early on, and famously in Nazi Germany, kids rewarded by the regime for turning in their parents for forbidden types of talk at home.
I'm kidding in a way, I really expect this stupid idea to die in the campaign. Bush floated the same nonsense after 9/11 in a SOTU address, but it went nowhere.
You have to wonder: What is Obama's reason for wanting a new force (as he called it) like this, as large and well-funded as the present U.S. Army? Just another way to direct government largesse to people not presently getting it, in exchange for their votes in November?
What exactly does he intend these people to do?
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
my daughter's private school has required service participation for years now.....ten hours per year for underclassmen, twenty hours for seniors......no graduation without proof of participation......
...full immersion.....
We had to do 40 hours in my high school during our junior year. It was definitely a worthwhile experience. I hated it at the time but I think it helped me grow up a little quicker.
If a law like this gets passed, they need to realize that a lot of private schools and indeed churches require service already. Had I not gone to a private school, my church would have required me to do about the same amount of service to get confirmed anyway.
My problem with this is the disenfranchisement of the poor.
Obama wants to threaten people with no federal funding for schools. Inner city schools are the ones that are going to suffer. The parents can't afford to ferry their children to and from volunteer programs.
Libs argue until they're blue in the face about requiring ID to vote and then Obama proposes something like this????? Our low income students would be refused funding for their schools and no diploma on top of that. What a nice guy.
For the record you can't com pair private school requirements to public.
I like it. Let's do exactly that: people only go to school whose family WANTS them to and can force them to go and to behave well enough to stay in.
Hard rules, real discipline, if they act like thugs they get suspended or expelled. Don't want to go? Good, lettuce-picking is 800 miles thataway.
And you KNOW we need lettuce-pickers.