Obama will REQUIRE community service -- PLEASE DIGG

[jrich4rpaul]

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.

http://www.change.gov/americaserves


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Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7bv7z/obama_plan_will_require_50_hours_of_community/
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EDIT: After the posting of this, the wording on the page has been changed. Wonder why?

It NOW says:

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 setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free. 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.

 

[Call Me V]

Wow fuck that. He better be doing it first.

He can suck it.

 

[Mahkato]

Change.gov? Since when do not-yet-inaugurated citizens get their own .gov address?

 

[Bruno]

http://www.change.gov/americaserves

www.change.gov/americaenslaved is more like it.

 

[Mahkato]

So ... will home and private-school students be exempt from this requirement?

 

[constitutional]

Change has come to America
Last night, President-Elect Barack Obama delivered the final speech of a presidential campaign that promised change in Washington.​

This is propaganda in full swing.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

ok. And if we refuse to do the community service?

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

Nazi Communist. Hitlers youth. tones

 

[Carole]

http://www.change.gov/americaserves

Obama cannot enforce community service by people who cannot even afford the transportation to get to it.

Obama cannot force anyone to do anything. They must WANT to do it and be able to do it.

Once again, it is like forcing democracy at the point of a gun.

One leads and encourages successfully by example, not by force.

Is he planning to subsidize this?

 

[Mahkato]

http://www.change.gov/page/s/application

Thank you for your expression of interest in serving in the Obama-Biden Administration.
If you are a user with disabilities who is having trouble accessing the appointments application form, please contact the Obama-Biden Transition Project at 202-540-3000 or [email protected].

What's PTT.gov?

 

[Carole]

So ... will home and private-school students be exempt from this requirement?

There will be new laws to prevent home and private schools from existing.

Something similar to the way he plans to bankrupt the coal industry, only it will be the home and private schools.

Of course, his children will be able to attend private schools.

 

[zach]

100 hours? How is forced community service help going to improve motivation for the "better of America" if the person doesn't want to do it in the first place?

 

[awake]

Obama cannot enforce community service by people who cannot even afford the transportation to get to it.

Obama cannot force anyone to do anything. They must WANT to do it and be able to do it.

Once again, it is like forcing democracy at the point of a gun.

One leads and encourages successfully by example, not by force.

Is he planning to subsidize this?

Umm, yes he can... remember all the executive orders Bush signed?

 

[jrich4rpaul]

ok. And if we refuse to do the community service?

I can't wait to see Obama's answer for that.

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

oh yeah...they probably won't outlaw them..but like cali..they will make it so regulated ..like the parents have to have a teaching degree from some major college...BUT..there is a way around it. I taught for a home school co op where MANY of the parents had teaching degrees...tones

 

[Carole]

ok. And if we refuse to do the community service?

Most likely we will be further taxed for existing.

 

[constitutional]

100 hours? How is forced community service help going to improve motivation for the "better of America" if the person doesn't want to do it in the first place?

Can the government force upon you such mandate? Isn't this pretty much a light version of a military draft?

 

[awake]

Quite frankly when the economy implodes you will be forced to 'volunteer' to keep the services going... note the many and various corps?

 

[StateofTrance]

Someone posted that on Reddit..

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7bv7z/obama_plan_will_require_50_hours_of_community/


Vote it up guys...

 

[MsDoodahs]

Can the government force upon you such mandate?

"Yes We Can" is his slogan FOR A REASON.