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“Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it.” Those are the words of Barack Obama on the campaign trail just two days before Americans celebrated their independence. While he emphasized that loving your country means more than simply watching fireworks on the 4th of July, he went one step further and announced it was also our responsibility to change the country we love as well. This one word ‘change’, has been the cornerstone of Obama’s campaign since the primary season began, but what exactly would Obama like to change? It appears that as Americans prepared to celebrate their independence, Obama was looking for a way to strip some of that independence, effectively making young Americans indentured servants to our government.
Obama, an Illinois senator, touted a package of proposals he first offered in December that would expand AmeriCorps, the domestic service agency, and double the size of the Peace Corps.
He also would offer more service opportunities to retirees and set goals for middle- and high-school students to serve 50 hours a year of public service, and for college students to serve 100 hours a year.
Barack Obama is going down a slippery slope with his message of ‘change’ as he is beginning to reveal what it is he believes needs to be changed. Individualism and self reliance will no longer exist under an Obama Presidency, as young Americans will be taught that it is their duty to help others, and it is the duty of others to help them. It will be the duty of all young Americans to serve their fellow citizens, wether they want to or not.
Obama supporters have an inherent belief that it is George Bush who is a fascist, but it is clearly Obama who has read Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism which says “Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State,”
Obama’s call for mandatory government service is a statist approach, believing that government is the answer to all of life’s problems, and only through government service can we ‘change’ America into the country Obama believes it should be. Presumably Obama would ignore the text of the Thirteenth Amendment in order to accomplish this goal, as the Constitution strictly forbids ‘involuntary servitude’, which includes “threatened or actual state-imposed legal coercion” as defined by the Supreme Court.
Many countries require mandatory service, but hopefully we won't be joining them anytime soon! It sounds like he wants to put the whole country on a gigantic Welfare to Work program.
Originally posted by Pellevoisin
The Federal Government of the USA is already the single largest employer in the USA.
Can't anyone see that such a situation is insane?
How does Obama derive "mandatory service" from any part of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights?
Require 100 Hours of Service in College: Obama will establish a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.
Originally posted by LLoyd45
Many countries require mandatory service, but hopefully we won't be joining them anytime soon! It sounds like he wants to put the whole country on a gigantic Welfare to Work program.
Originally posted by jetxnet
are ashamed and no longer supporting Obama.
Originally posted by vor78
I was all set to defend Obama and say that it wasn't mandatory (and believe me, I can't stand the guy), but it appears that it indeed is!
www.barackobama.com...
Require 100 Hours of Service in College: Obama will establish a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.
YIKES!
Barack Obama's Plan for Universal Voluntary Public Service
Originally posted by Hal9000
I guess while you were there visiting his website you failed to see the title of the page?
Barack Obama's Plan for Universal Voluntary Public Service
Originally posted by Hal9000
To be clear, mandatory means you have no choice, and voluntary means you do have a choice. Is that so hard to comprehend?
Obama will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year.
www.barackobama.com...
In the Soviet Union, state ownership of productive property was combined with central planning. Down to the workplace level, Soviet economic planners decided what goods and services were to be produced, how they were to be produced, in what quantities, and at what prices they were to be sold (see economy of the Soviet Union). Soviet economic planning was promoted as an alternative to allowing prices and production to be determined by the market through supply and demand. Especially during the Great Depression, many socialists considered Soviet-style planning a remedy to what they saw as the inherent flaws of capitalism, such as monopolies, business cycles, unemployment, vast inequalities in the distribution of wealth, and the exploitation of workers.
Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.
The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own
Originally posted by BASSPLYR
Whats amazing is that even though you guys read his web site you all are still demonstrating massively poor reading aptitude.
Originally posted by semperfortis
Well this is not surprising. He is a Socialist after all.
Much like everything else the Liberal Socialist's do, this will be explained away, or re-defined so that it sits with the palate better; yet it is pure Socialism at it's best.
Socialism, in it's traditional and true definition, means "the workers democratic ownership and/or control of the means of production". Such a definition implies that rather than a government bureaucracy for managing such means, there is a focus on highly democratic organisation, education and awareness, and every individual is encouraged to become an active, rather than passive participant in that which effect their lives.