I believe that 100 hours of community service also includes $4000 worth of tuition credit, but we'll see. Remember that this is his idealized plan, now he has to govern.
Obviously compulsory volunteerism won't actually be mandated. This is America.
Obviously compulsory volunteerism won't actually be mandated. This is America.
As I said earlier in the thread somewhere, it already is in some places at least. In my county you need 75 hours of community service (fluffed 'Social Service Learning Hours') to graduate high school. I'm not whining, because you have 7 years to do it, but I'm just saying: "This is America" won't get you that far.
Seriously though, it's not actually _forced_, it's just encouraged via one of those offers-you-can't-refuse.
It really does make me very uneasy though. Why did people wait until after the election to start discussing the more worrying aspects of Obama's policy platform?
And how long before people start discussing Obama's triple goals of giving tax cuts to 95% of the population while balancing the budget and starting up many expensive new federal programs?
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001339.html
His "tax cuts" to 95% of tax-filers is even more interesting when only about 60% of tax filers actually pay taxes.
Well, it took Nixon to go to China.
But I'll believe in Obama's labor service when I see kids picking up trash, and no sooner.
As much as I don't like volunteer work, I think it's a reasonable trade. If you don't want to do the work, you go to a private school.
However, the government organizes those schools, for better or for worse, and so my point is that it's within the government's rights to set up a system like the one Obama's proposing, so long as the system exists only for public schools.