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Obama proposes return of involuntary servitude

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Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-07 09:31|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Fits with the Spengler article in Opinion today.
Right from his book.
He seems to want the clan, corruption of Indonesia with freedom dumped.

Posted by 3dc 2008-07-07 12:11|| 2008-07-07 12:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Problem is, the people who made the mess are pretty much never the ones dragooned into cleaning the mess up...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-07-07 12:24|| 2008-07-07 12:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like something that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia embraced.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-07 12:31|| 2008-07-07 12:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "Obama Youth" anyone?

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-07 12:35|| 2008-07-07 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 "Volunteerism" the Obama way...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-07 12:36|| 2008-07-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Compulsory volunteering is just the next oxymoron on from government charity.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-07-07 12:40|| 2008-07-07 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 My kids have to do X number of service hours per year as a school requirement. At their private, Catholic school which I voluntarily send them to.

Not quite the same thing.

Posted by Mike 2008-07-07 12:47|| 2008-07-07 12:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Unfortunately, "service" is often just a misnomer for liberal causes. Do your "service" by working for an environmental group or some commie community group. This is just another way to indoctrinate the yoots.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-07-07 13:36|| 2008-07-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Great - more MASS PIRG / City Year socialists in the making I have to dodge at Park Street once a week, not to mention the smelly vagrant bums...

Posted by Raj 2008-07-07 13:44|| 2008-07-07 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 The obvious jibe should be that "Obama wants to repeal the 13th Amendment".

This hits where it hurts, once somebody finds out what the 13th Amendment did.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-07 17:10|| 2008-07-07 17:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Did the 13th Amendment ban bad luck?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-07-07 18:15|| 2008-07-07 18:15|| Front Page Top

#12 So when I'm President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you'll have done 17 weeks of service.

Wahahhahahaha...he'll get no inner-city "youth vote" with this plan.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-07 22:01|| 2008-07-07 22:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Those utes don't vote. They're sorta like 2/3rd of a free man. I find it so interesting when they pick on the one group that can't vote. If the efforts are so 'noble' why aren't adults, who've never done any public service, being tagged too? Free labor, no cost, because the state owns you and you work for the state. Or as someone right up Obama's political alley would say - from each according to his abilities, to each according to his need.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-07 23:22|| 2008-07-07 23:22|| Front Page Top

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