From each according to their ability
From the Change.gov web site:
So do we get to choose or not? And what should be the penalty for choosing not to?
For me it is not a problem. I'll blow past 100 hours of "community service" by March 1 of any given year.
Because I choose to. But should there be penalties for those who do not so choose?
Will there be?
"Change" looked great on the posters, guys....but now it is time to explain it. That is the cost of winning.
UPDATE: Change promised. Change delivered. The Change.gov website has been...em...changed to soften the whole "required" thing.
Somebody out there with kids in school answer this for me. Don't the all high schools have requirements for community service already?
I was thinking about going ahead and getting my Concealed Carry Instructor's License and then providing 100 hours of instruction to groups for free.
Will this count as "community service" under the new administration?
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I am still looking for the part of the Constitution that allows mandated labor for young Americans. The best I can come up with is a little editing, possibly a little carrot ("^") insertion.
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of ^forced^ happiness"
"Life, liberty and the delivery of happiness."
When they start delivering that happiness in the form of a happy little pill for all of us to take while doing our mandatory community service (read: soma), I'm off to the Caymans for good.
What color is the Caymans pill?
Ummm...can you read? You will have to do that if you CHOOSE to do it. Not if you dont choose to
The problem becomes who determines what community service is. We do a lot of community service, but it's cooking for people who are sick, mowing a yard for someone who can't get out, trimming trees for an older lady before hurricane season, repainting our church building. Do these count too, even if they're "unstructured"?
Once again, the government will crowd out the private sector. We'll take these problems that are currently being solved on the lowest level and move them up to a federal level, creating inefficiencies and waste and still failing to address the problem.
can the leftist illuminati really benefit from forcing community service? Is the community really served if the kids don't want to be there and do a halfway job with whatever job they're forced into? I think a campaign to encourage it might have less participants, but a higher success rate
I wonder if I'll be able to get the "Clean Energy Corps" to cut weeds around my tanks and pumping units?
Or maybe I can get them to scrub the tanks down since they ran over last week because the oil haulers don't have enough drivers. Anyone sense a bit of a disconnect here?
I don't know anyone currently unemployed that doesn't want to be (read: retired). Like Walser, I put in my time on community service every year VOLUNTARILY. (We are a very giving bunch around here.*) I see required gov't service coming, maybe with the carrot of some kind of tax kick-back.
This prose is intentionally opaque...they really don't (and didn't) want us to see what was coming. They succeeded for 52% of the voting population.
*Due to multiple after-work commitments yesterday, of a community service nature, I dropped in late at the end of a local fundraising function. A comment that I heard (and could have made myself) was that there were so many volunteer groups in town holding meetings and get togethers of some type, donors were having to choose the function to attend, even though they contributed to all of them. I don't think that Midland will take well to being told to give time to whatever Obama Corps come to town.