Posted on 11/06/2008 7:37:02 PM PST by Ozob
"The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start."
Doesn't this violate the 13th amendment?
That they will, my FRiend.
I agree and I usually don’t wish bad luck on anyone but I will mke an exception for those sobs that voted for Obama. They deserve everything that he does to them.
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One senator from Illinois abolished slavery, another brings it back.
Thank GOD I’m graduating college this winter! Unless he makes grad students do this, too. Then I’m screwed.
My (Catholic) high school made us do a certain amount of community service, too. I wish people would realize it isn’t volunteering if it isn’t *voluntary*.
“Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”
What if Congress chooses NOT to enforce it?
(that’s a serious question)
- John
Nope. He or she is a badass for finding this so quick!
I DON'T GIVE A CRAP if it doesn't “amount to much.. and the kids found a way around it:!!!
It is the freaking principle, not the amount.
Requiring people to perform service to graduate is extortion. This isn't a penalty for wrong doing. It is extortion to receive what you have earned.
Government: LEAVE ME AND MY KIDS ALONE!
Well that didn’t take long, and I can tell you a whole lot of people missed that in the long, long election.
Good idea. The difficulty for conservatives is that the "community service" groups will probably be required to be nonprofits. They'll have to wrap their heads around the realization that nonprofit doesn't mean that the operators don't make money. In fact, such operations can be quite lucrative.
I have no idea what you do for a living or what your resources are, but you might want to consider building such an operation when and if the necessary legislation clarifies the requirements.
You might want to call it Governmental Services and Studies or something similarly innocuous.
I’m joining Couch Potato Core, where hard working Americans crash on the sofa and watch a movie after working a full day’s job.
“Homeschool. I can’t emphasize that enough.”
Thats going to be illegal. Probably all Christian schools as well. They’ve been trying to shut home schooling down for a long time (even tho home schoolers kick ass in contests like the National Spelling Bee). Don’t want to encourage any of that ‘free’ thinking!
They’ll have to kill me before they force me to put my boy in public school! OVER MY DEAD BODY!
Let the people who voted for him serve the master; leave the rest of us the heck alone.
Should have had green colored “vapor” gas come off of Michael Moor’s cartoon !
My father just retired and he is nearly 82 years old. I’ll be damned if anyone’s going to make him work another day.
And so it begins.....
Bingo... and Charlie Rangel has been calling for it for a very long time now.
The sheep will follow willingly and those that don't will be re-educated.
The sheep will of course approve of the re-education.
Watch how liberals idolize the Peace Corp and America Corp.
They will idolize even more the forced servitude for the 0ne. 0bama is not stupid. He is trying to implement his vision for all of us.
You better check this one out...
Step 1.
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