Hattip to Tom Blumer - Talk about “change.” The latest version of president-elect Barack Obama’s ever-evolving ideas for “community service” promises to pass out quite a bit of it to America’s college students.
The “America Serves” (link is to Google cache) and “Service” sections of Team Obama’s Change.gov site have, uh, changed quite a bit over the past day or so after many, including Kerry Picket of Newsbusters, noted that the “service” proposals require youth conscription, i.e., a non-military draft.
As of 8 AM this morning, Team Obama’s cleanup operation is nearly complete, with almost all coercive language purged.
But one item noted last night by Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs remains in the “Service” section (a copy for future reference is here if/when the existing link changes), with a stunning quantitative modification:
$4,000 in value for 100 hours is $40 an hour, tax-free. For most students, because they pay no federal income tax, this will amount to an annual handout of $4,000 less the value of the service they provide (bravely assuming that it’s productive), which would be at most the private-sector equivalent of about $12 an hour with benefits, or $1,200.
SOURCE: NEWSBUSTERS
This is one big spending president and he still has 70 days before he takes over the White House! Will the American people stand for all the spending that Obama and the Democrats wants or will they let their opinions be heard? Is this what the American people voted for? Did you vote?
Read this: LINK: Non-military-draft?
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LINK: A national holiday in honor of The One? For heaven’s sake:
