Obama issues new call for national service

Reuters ^ | July 2, 2008 | John Whitesides

[2ndDivisionVet]

What a waste of money, manpower and efort.

[TheWasteLand]

It’s like some sort of...New...Deal.

[taxcontrol]

Lets see ... most pressing national issues. War on Terror and homeland security. Ok, sounds like he wants to increase the size of the armed forces.

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[rhombus]

$$$ and more $$$ and more $$$

[Panzerlied]

Ein volk, ein reich, ein BO.

[frankiep]

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."

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer

[2ndDivisionVet]

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...

[MediaMole]

This sounds like a draft. The “goals” eventually become requirements and we all lose more of our freedom.

[djsherin]

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.

[CholeraJoe]

He really is talking like Hitler in the 1930’s isn’t he?

[Puppage]

when I am president of the United States," Obama said.

God help us all.

[True Republican Patriot]

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.

[Natural Law]

I can make a fortune if I can get the red scarf contract........

[kbennkc]

How much organizing does he think our communities need ?

[Scotswife]

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.

[djsherin]

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.

[darkangel82]

Power-hungry megalomaniac. Hillary in a suit.

[Parmy]

Good God! First we had the Peace Corps. That has really been a success. Look at all the peace we now have.

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?

[WakeUpAndVote]