In Obama’s speech on public service, he said this:
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set,” he said. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”
A “civilian national security force” that is as powerful and well-funded as the military. What’s this you say? What exactly does a civilian national security force do? (We’ve had one before, you know, and it didn’t work out so well.)
Also, in Obama’s America, public service would not be optional:
Obama called for greater integration with schools, so that young Americans are better prepared to be active citizens. He said he would make federal assistance conditional on school districts establishing service programs and set the goal of 50 hours of service a year for middle and high school students.
“Just as we teach math and writing, arts and athletics, we need to teach young Americans to take citizenship seriously,” he said.
Presumably, high-school students would need to get their public service projects approved with the school (i.e., with the government). Any project that couldn’t get approval would actually lose volunteers, since not many kids are going to do their official 50 hours, and then do more for an unapproved project. And certainly no church-related project would be able to get official sanction. So really, this isn’t just a proposal to draft kids into government-approved projects, but also a proposal to starve the lifeblood from church projects and other insufficiently progressive endeavors.
(Via Protein Wisdom, via Instapundit.)
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