We might want to stake out a fighting position against this crackbrained, totalitarian Obama idea:
Obama’s service plan is just as troubling. He wants to mandate 50 hours of community service per year for middle and high school students. And he’s offering a $4,000 federal-funded tuition credit in exchange for 100 hours per year from college students. For most students, the latter will become a mandatory part of getting a degree, as colleges will merely raise their tuition to compensate for the vouchers.
So who gets to decide what constitutes “community service”? Who gets to decide which causes and organizations will be credit-worthy, and which ones won’t?
Something tells me that you’d be more likely to get one of Obama’s vouchers by going door to door for one of ACORN’s living wage campaigns than, say, volunteering for a libertarian nonprofit organization that advocates against things like government-mandated community service.
Volunteerism is good, but government sponsored and group-intimidated activities are the negation of volunteerism. We should encourage our young people to get out there and pitch in, but only encourage – it is their right to not participate and suffer no societal consequences.
The thing about enforced virtue is that it isn’t virtue at all – in Saudi Arabia, they have some sort of police force which goes around ensuring that everyone is being virtuous…which means, of course, that no one in Saudi Arabia has a clue about virtue because you can only do right when you are free to do wrong. God gave us free will for a reason, and we must do as much as we can to leave the will as free as possible. Obama’s plan is collectivist, Bolshevik nonsense, and we should stop it.
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