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You Belong to the State
As the article notes, national service is unconstitutional. More importantly, national service is really national servitude -- it will be about big corporations lobbying to ensure that national service projects are actually corporate service projects, making national service really national slavery. -- KM
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The issue [national service] has become especially important because Democratic nominee Barack Obama has embraced national service as a priority of his presidency should he win. Obama would not directly impose forced labor on young people, but would instead withhold educational funds from them and their institutions if they fail to comply. (Yes, they shouldn’t be taking these funds in the first place, but there is something sinister in Obama’s program all the same.) We should, he says, "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."
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