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National Service for everyone-Obama looking at expanding service oppurtunities

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According to Obama's campaign, the service plan will include:

# Expanding AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots and doubling the size of the Peace Corps;

# Integrating service-learning programs into schools and universities

# Providing new service opportunities for working Americans and retirees;

# Expanding service initiatives that "engage disadvantaged young people and advance their education";

# Expanding the capacity of nonprofit groups to innovate and expand successful programs across the country; and

# Enabling more Americans to serve in the armed forces

"This won't be a call issued in one speech or one program -- I want this to be a central cause of my presidency," Obama said in a speech at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

"We will ask Americans to serve. We will create new opportunities for Americans to serve. And we will direct that service to our most pressing national challenges."
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22 responses // National Service for everyone-Obama looking at expanding service oppurtunities

  • It is interesting.

    He is taking some of John McCain ideas and the press is promoting them.
    soleil10
  • I think that we should create competition in the state schools, break the monopoly, give vouchers to parents and have every young man and woman do a one year national service before going to college.

    It would revolutionize education, create competition and have young people come together for the country.
    soleil10
  • I'd like to see military service be used as a fast track for citizenship of immigrants, nothing shows your dedication to a country like serving to protect it.
    rabidlemur
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  • Please Lord, let the American people see thru Obama, while considering his twenty years of sitting in the pews of an anti-white, hater, spewing racist, anti-American rants. Let the American people vote for a truly, positive President, not an inexperienced, talker, who's married to someone with a huge chip on her shoulder.
    democrat_for_McCain
  • Enabling more Americans to serve in the armed forces? Is that a nice way to say Draft? This sounds like Bush's initiative as well. And it is trivial crap compared to the serious problems we now face. Why isn't he talking about climate change? Is he afraid people will then see through him on that as well? That he is for all that McCain is except ethanol with McCain speaks out against? If he is a candidate of change shouldn't he be working to actually CUT the military budget and use that extra money for alternate energy investment to push green jobs and healthcare? Again, SOS.
    JanforGore
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  • Expanding the size of Peace Corps volunteers might help show some kind of mindfulness to the rest of the world after Bush's mindless presidency.
    christopherwalls
  • Gee. Who will be volunteering? We will have to work overtime to pay for Comrade Obamas tax increases.

    Under his administration we should see the return of subbotniks or "red Saturday" where everyone did some sort of voluntary socially beneficial activity. In the old Sovietsky Svaz, volunteering brought social integration and progress for the state. It was expected. It seems that Comrade Obama has listened to his mentors.
    No I have nothing against volunteering. Worked on many a Habitat house. This guy seems to get closer and closer to his communist roots.
    Paratus
  • i would like to see a peanut butter and smorf for our troops.
    phukna
  • and also a change....
    phukna
  • America_Again, I'm not trying to pile on or anything, but I have to say it's quite ironic for you to be quoting Rage.
    GavinTheMother
  • CAN EVERYONE ONE SAY NEW DEAL 2009
    TexasPatriot67
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  • Cool. Maybe they can pay for your college instead of the military, as college money is the main reason anyone ever signs up these days.
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • quote: "Cool. Maybe they can pay for your college instead of the military, as college money is the main reason anyone ever signs up these days."

    Why does the government need to pay for anyone’s college, unless they choose to enlist, where it is a known fact that college help is available?
    I came out of high school in the 1970s. In those days, college loans were almost non-existent, without parents mortgaging something. My parents, both struggling to meet household expnses, couldn’t afford to help me with tuition, yet I wanted to go to a private university. I took 18 hours a semester, at a school that in today’s dollars would cost about $15K per year. I worked evenings, and Saturdays, to pay for my tuition, and asked family members to help me with books, in lew of birthday, Christmas, etc. gifts. At one point, I inquired with my counselor about the possibility of receiving scholarship help, and was told that other than high academic, or athletic scholarships, the only scholarships for students needing financial assistance, were reserved for minority students.
    Why have we turned into a nation of needing government assistance from cradle to grave?
    democrat_for_McCain
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  • Can anyone here tell me how Obama would allow older workers to retrain for a different job ???
    TexasPatriot67
  • Funny! American_again calls itself an autocrat. When contradiction, piety, and hypocrisy aren't being vomited up it sounds conservative to me. Social justice?, pleeeeeeaase!
    menmykoko
  • Perhaps if some sort of National Service was required of every American, it would force the jaded legions of America's youth to actually pay attention to the domestic and foreign policies of their government, since they would be directly affected by them. I certainly do not endorse mandatory military service, but if American high school graduates had the choice of joining the Peace Corps, the Red Cross, or maybe even a local literacy volunteer program, I think that National Service would be a fantastic idea. Young adults would develop skills that would be useful for the rest of their lives, they would interact with the real world before shipping off to college (thus better preparing them for their studies when they get there), and they would contribute something to the community.

    I'm 21, and I certainly wish that I had the opportunity to join a non-profit organization that helped other people...and then get help with my college tuition afterwards! It would certainly be better than the more than $100K in debt I'll have when I finally graduate!
    L_Celi
  • Every student can ask for a one year deferement when they are accepted in college and keep their scholarship.

    Most college support that. There is no problem

    Civil service is available right now.

    You can do it

    I know plenty of people who do it
    soleil10

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