Posted on 07/02/2008 12:12:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to create new opportunities for national service that would give Americans a chance to fight growing challenges on issues like poverty, climate change and education.
On a trip to Colorado, which Obama hopes to turn into an election battleground in his November White House race with Republican John McCain, Obama said Americans were ready to answer a new call for national service.
"I won't just ask for your vote as a candidate -- I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am president of the United States," Obama said.
"This will not be a call issued in one speech or one program -- this will be a central cause of my presidency," he said. "We will ask Americans to serve. We will create new opportunities for Americans to serve. And we will direct that service to our most pressing national challenges."
Obama, an Illinois senator, touted a package of proposals he first offered in December that would expand AmeriCorps, the domestic service agency, and double the size of the Peace Corps.
He also would offer more service opportunities to retirees and set goals for middle- and high-school students to serve 50 hours a year of public service, and for college students to serve 100 hours a year.
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It’s like some sort of...New...Deal.
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$$$ and more $$$ and more $$$
Ein volk, ein reich, ein BO.
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer
My late father was in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the depression for awhile before joining the Marine Corps. Back then, people were starving to death and ANY job was a lifeline, but we are now a rich nation with NO need for make-work jobs. Leave it to a socialist to think of this boondoggle...
This sounds like a draft. The “goals” eventually become requirements and we all lose more of our freedom.
Are things like the PeaceCorp government funded/subsidized?
If so, that’s a scary and tyrannical proposition. I consider “national service” CHOOSING to serve your country. I will be an officer in the Army in a few years. No one is forcing or coercing me.
He really is talking like Hitler in the 1930’s isn’t he?
God help us all.
This is the kind of crap one used to hear in China ten to twenty years ago, but not today. This Twerp is certifiably Insane and has the Ego of Hitler himself.
I can make a fortune if I can get the red scarf contract........
How much organizing does he think our communities need ?
some folks are going to have to spend a little less time volunteering and a little more time working for the bucks to pay for the gas, heating oil, food, and higher taxes Barak will most certainly impose on us.
If these politicians want people to serve more, they’ll have to take some load off their shoulders first.
Agreed. FDR’s civilian programs ran like military operations, with tents and reveille and early morning wake up. That is NOT what civilian positions should be like. There is a reason the military is so segregated from civilian affairs.
Power-hungry megalomaniac. Hillary in a suit.
The minute the volunteers get of the great white bird to go home, the people they work with go back to drinking out of mud puddles, providing they haven't dried up.
Next we had America Corps. Clinton's folly. Where is that now? Does it even exist? And did it ever do any good?
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