To: CanadianMusherinMI; Jet Jaguar
go over to youtube and take a look for yourself
I did, and found the full speech posted by Obama's campaign, and it's even worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df2p6867_pw
Here's the transcript of the relevant section of the speech - start watching about 15:00 minutes in.
Just as we must value and encourage military service across our society, we must honor and expand other opportunities to serve. Because the future of our nation depends on the soldier at Fort Carson, but it also depends on the teacher in East LA, or the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans, the Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, the Foreign Service officer in Indonesia. . . .
Today, AmeriCorps our nations network of local, state and national service programs has 75,000 slots. And I know firsthand the quality of these programs. My wife Michelle once left her job at a law firm at city hall to be a founding director of an AmeriCorps program in Chicago that trains young people for careers in public service. These programs invest Americans in their communities and their country. They tap Americas greatest resource our citizens.
Thats why as President, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots, and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem they are the answer.
So we are going to send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. Well call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods all across the country. We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, to be there for our military families. And were going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
And well use technology to connect people to service. Well expand USA Freedom Corps to create an online network where Americans can browse opportunities to volunteer. Youll be able to search by category, time commitment, and skill sets; youll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities. This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda, and make their own change from the bottom up.
We also need to invest in ideas that can help us meet our common challenges, because more often than not, the next great social innovation wont be generated by the government.
The non-profit sector employs 1 in 12 Americans and 115 nonprofits are launched every day. Yet while the federal government invests $7 billion in research and development for the private sector, there is no similar effort to support non-profit innovation. Meanwhile, there are ideas across America in our inner cities and small towns; from college graduates, to seniors getting ready to retire that could benefit millions of Americans if theyre given the chance to grow.
For the quick summary: Obama will add millions of jobs by making Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, etc., bigger and will spend us into obvlion.
I'm really surprised McCain didn't make this speech an issue. This speech was perfect for showing everything that's wrong with Obama.
To: af_vet_rr
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Not the U.S. Military National Guard and Reserves.
Scary stuff.
82 posted on
11/01/2008 5:47:51 PM PDT by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: af_vet_rr
i still have a feeling obama has something more like this in mind:
Chavez wants 1 million armed men and women in the army reserve, and 150,000 have already joined, surpassing the regular military’s force of 100,000. Now Venezuelans are also organizing neighborhood-based militia units for Chavez's Territorial Guard.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/19/world/main1510762.shtml
from what i have seen on youtube and his words. of course these thoughts come from a place of immense distrust of obama. given the ayers connection (anarchy and communism).
we may want to look in to other “dear leaders” that have endorsed obama, how many have “civilian forces”
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