[RooRoobird14]

Let's see: Johnny McInsane is teaming up with yet another Dumbocrat to introduce a bill which will require COMPULSORY VOLUNTEER SERVICE> from young people.

If you didn't believe it before, believe it now: McNinny has gone completely insane and is now a full-blownd Communist.

GOOD LORD, how did Arizona end up having this Major League Clymer as their senator?!?!?

[boomop1]

This AmeriCorps is a classic tax payer rip-off, McNitwit is a clown and needs to get a real job.

[Cicero]

Well, this is simple enough. Any legislation that McCain proposes is bad. He has an unblemished record in that regard. Campaign finance "reform" is only the best known example of a whole series of ill-conceived, mostly unconstitutional proposals that he has co-sponsored with liberal Democrats. So, no need to look at this new act in detail. If McCain is for it, it must be bad. Just vote it down.

[TheDon]

These guys are amazing. They are so quick to put a gun to the people's head and make them do good. This is more of the same. "The Road to Serfdom" is paved with good intentions...or are they?

[isthisnickcool]

DOCTOR ONE: Uh, yea, we are ready to go. Is he prepped?

DOCTOR TWO: OK. Cut right there. Oh gee! We are really going to have to go deep. That's a real mess.

DOCTOR ONE: Well, I hate to excise this much out of his temporal lobe but there just is no choice.

DOCTOR TWO: Hey, give this guy some more gas! He is coming around and we are digging out part of his brain!

GAS PASSER: Oops, sorry.

McCAIN: The strawberries! They took my strawberries! From the Straight Talk Express wardroom! But I had them! I used geometric logic to....

GAS PASSER: Hey! He was jiggling these steel balls in his hand!

McCAIN: Gooks! Gooks! Gooooo......

DOCTOR ONE: All done. Hope he didn't need that part of his brain......

[steve50]

Well, the Brown Shirts did a lot to help Hitler shape public opinion. You got to go with what works.

[KirklandJunction]

Cool your jets folks.

Both Bayh and McCain offices point out that they DID NOT say mandatory.

Fox News found some think-tank consultant puke who said it might be maybe kinda' sorta' something to consider, maybe, sometime.

[freeeee]

"National Mandatory Service"

Hmmmmmm... This rings a bell. Let's have a look at the old trusty dictionary:

slave(slav) n.
1. One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household.
2. One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence: 'I was still the slave of education and prejudice' (Edward Gibbon).
3. One who works extremely hard.
4. A machine or component controlled by another machine or component.

slav·er·y n. pl. slav·er·ies
1. The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.
2.a. The practice of owning slaves.
b. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.
3. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
4. A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery.

[Frohickey]

If McStain proposes a compulsory service period for young citizens to safeguard the borders of the United States by serving in the Armed Forces, then I agree.

[beckett]

When I think that I once entertained notions of supporting McCain, who I now see is an unstable, muddle-headed, ego freak, I thank my lucky stars that I woke up to who he really is before committing myself.

[NicR]

AmeriCorps was JFK worshiping Clinton's attempt to create a Peace Corps of his own. It's a complete boondogle and should be eliminated rather than expanded.

[Rebelbase]

"young people would have to pick up shovels to dig foundations"

Dig them for what? It was always my impression that the govt. could not compete with the private sector. Those foundations should be dug by contractors who won the job bid.

[Major Matt Mason]

McCain should apologize for use of the word "volunteer", as there is nothing of the sort going on in the AmeriCorps program. Volunteers give freely of their own time, and DO NOT receive money for their good works. AmeriCorps is nothing but another federal jobs program, and it is insulting to real volunteers to have these paid workers referred to as volunteers.

Geez, talk about Orwellian twisting of the language.

[1stMarylandRegiment]

My children volunteer voluntarily already - will they be required to volunteer involuntarily also?

[Myrddin]

The schools in San Diego attempted compulsory "volunteer" service from the high school students as a requirement for graduation. My son ripped them a new a$$hole in a fairly scathing letter to the editor of the San Diego Union. He cited chapter and verse why it was illegal. The letter sparked serious discussion among members of the faculty and administration at the high school and school district. The requirement was dropped.

[mysterio]

It's amazing the power the politicians think they have to make life decisions for the populous. I guess that's why they call it a slippery slope.

[Cold Heat]

Yah Right! This whole concept is totally insane.

[Rockinfreakapotamus]

And I bet he agrees with Mark Shields that we should reinstate the draft. <- click on these 3 leftist links at left.

[jf55510]

Some state representative tried to require that you have to do x amount of hours of community service to graduate college. That proposal was not well recieved on campuses. I do plenty of volunteer work for my student organizations, and I do not need someone else to tell me that I have to do more.

[RightOnline]

McCain's been gettin' into the stash again. Somebody bust his bong, will ya??

[arly]

If something is made compulsory , then how can it still be called voluntary?..