Obama Wants You (For Universal Voluntary Public Service aka national involuntary servitude)

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 1 August 2008 | Unsigned Editorial

[shrinkermd]

...Obama says that as president he will “set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year.” What he doesn’t say is that he’ll make such voluntarism compulsory by attaching strings to federal education dollars. The schools will make the kids volunteer. It’s called plausible deniability.

In a commencement speech at Wesleyan University, Obama advised graduates not to pursue the American dream of success, but to serve others.

“You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should,” he told the graduates. “But I hope you don’t.”

Don’t be another Bill Gates and amass a fortune making people more productive and successful in their daily lives and giving your countrymen a standard of living the world will envy. Exchange your cap and gown for sackcloth and ashes. Leave your possessions behind and come and follow Obama.

Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs betrays a poverty of ambition,” he opined. Shame on us for being selfish and buying that SUV built by an autoworker trying to fulfill his family’s immediate wants and needs.

“Our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation,” Obama said. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”

We already have a Salvation Army that is truly a volunteer organization. Collective service and salvation is not a classic definition of voluntarism. What Obama has in mind is to turn America into a socialist version of the old Soviet collectives.

[WellyP]

That socialist BASTARD can go to HELL!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Obama said. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”.....

Straight from the socialist playbook to your doorstep...Sorry! I’m not ready for prime-time socialism, Herr Barry....!

[tiredoflaundry]

I'm listening to Obama in Florida right now. He mentioned a $4000 credit for college students with the “along with community service” catch.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Obama wanted to create a “Brown Shirt” service. But it sounded too racist.

[sobieski]

There’s no way Hussein beats McCain; they are already tied in the polls of likely voters, and those polls overstate Barak’s support.

[tiredoflaundry]

This man is scary. He just said the “mortgage crisis” is a result of the targeting of Black & Latino familes.

[tiredoflaundry]

good golly FR is acting weird again!

[SE Mom]

WHAT?!?! Are you SERIOUS?? he just said that?

He can’t help himself, can he...

[tiredoflaundry]

Yup, it was part of the answer to some disruptor's who had a sign “what about the black community”.

[seppel]

In the “new” South Africa the government expects Med school grads to do a rural social internship year, free of charge except for basic living requirements. You have to do this if you want to graduate. The conditions are atrocious. This is just the African mentality. They have group thinking. Big boss on top (village Chief like Mandela or Obama) and the others tied in to serve the group against essentially zero pay. This collectivism is the norm in Africa and it also works well there. Africans detest individualism, which is one of the many sore points they have with the West. You should look at it from that angle. If you don't like it, then you need to question “Integration” and “Multiculturalism”.

[SE Mom]

Eeegads...can’t wait to read the quote. Did he say the word “targeting”? (Can you tell I’m in the office?!)

[seppel]

In a way he’s right. Check out Steve Sailer (isteve.blogspot.com) on this, lots of intresting stuff there. Of course what Obama fails to mention to you is that he was one of the main movers behind targeting the Black and Latino communities for mortgages. I guess he just forgot to mention that.

[tiredoflaundry]

Obama said that the predatory practices( which resulted in the mort. crisis) targeted Blacks & Latinos.

[astounded]

“Our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation,” Obama said. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”

Isn’t that stright out of Communist doctrine? This kind of stuff needs to see the light of day.

[tiredoflaundry]

The “target” was used in a negative way.......... not a “help target” if you know what I mean.

[shrinkermd]

Yes, but getting it to the young people who will be affected is going to be difficult. Hopefully, some angel will fund a 527 effort directed to young (HS and college) people.

[sobieski]

Targetting them by giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars of credit? That’s rich. And if they put zero down, then those Blacks and Hispanics were renting w/ an option to buy and didn’t lose a dime of their own money.

[SE Mom]

I can’t get over that. He believes- or- wants America to believe that banks/lenders are diabolical in their desire to write bad loans.

[metmom]

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