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Wrong.

If you want to create an army of government indoctrinated robots fine. Otherwise it will lead to disaster. A army of kids to do their "social duty" by letting authorities know you put the wrong trash in the wrong recycle bin. Watered your garden at an unapproved time. Your porch light was on during the day. You had known disruptive people visit your home. There is no end to the government controlling an army of people where only government gets to set their priorities and define what is good for the whole or not. And what is "good" for the whole may not be good for the individual. America is about individual rights not what's best for the whole through the eyes of an elite social engineer accountable to no one.

If people want to go to college on the taxpayers dime join the military. Oh, we already do that...

This wrong in so many ways it is painful to have explain why...

"If you want to create an army of government indoctrinated robots fine. Otherwise it will lead to disaster. A army of kids to do their "social duty" by letting authorities know you put the wrong trash in the recycle bin. Watered your garden at an unapproved time. Your porch light was on during the day. You had known disruptive people visit your home. There is no end to the government controlling an army of people where only government gets to set their priorities and define what is good for the whole or not. And what is "good" for the whole may not be good for the individual. America is about individual rights not what's best for the whole through the eyes of an elite social engineer accountable to no one.... This is wrong in so many ways it is painful to have to explain why"...

But we have to explain - to as many as will listen, before it's too late.

I had the same impression you did about this- I can just see an army of the little darlings roaming the streets, going through people's garbage and making sure we do what the government says we must. Yikes...

A army of kids to do their "social duty" by letting authorities know you put the wrong trash in the wrong recycle bin. Watered your garden at an unapproved time. Your porch light was on during the day. You had known disruptive people visit your home.

Sounds like a lot of homeowners associations ;-) As a friend said, a lot of people who love the idea of homeowners associations having a lot of authority are closet socialists who can't get enough socialism in their lives.

Unfortunately, it's not a laughing matter.

I don't see it as some kind of socialist indoctrination - I think it will ultimately be used that way, however. I see it in the short-term as a way to reduce the number of people listed as unemployed, otherwise Obama risks losing in 2012, assuming the GOP finds somebody other than Jindal or Palin.