You do not yet have a tax burden hanging like a millstone around your neck. But you will and then you'll know why nobody here wants to add more give-aways and more bureaucratic layers, all at our expense.
And what of those who are not academically competitive? Do they just do the "community service" and get sent along to college anyway? If not, then isn't there going to be groaning about "discrimination"?
Of what, exactly, will this "community service" consist? What organizations will get the grants (more tax-payer expense, btw) and whose agenda will be served?
None of this has been clarified, none of it has been spelled out. Like all of kerry's proposals, it's short on detail.
It's short on details for a reason. If they spelled it out any further, they would show how right we are in thinking that it is a massive indoctrination program.
Just think of how it would really work and who would get the "training" positions.
Put on your tinfoil hat and think about this: At the flip of a switch, a well planned program like this, all nicely pre-funded and staffed nationwide, could be turned into an oppresive, all pervasive control mechanism by She Who Must Not Be Named.