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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (94749)11/8/2008 10:44:01 AM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (3) of 541429
 
by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55,

Besides my philosophical opposition to the idea of requiring service, I have to note the obvious generational divide. Requiring the young to serve but "encouraging" the old to volunteer. How about requiring service for able bodied seniors in order to qualify for Social Security and Medicare? All of the same community arguments would apply to seniors as well as the young....except that they have the right to vote and would destroy anybody who tried to pass such a proposal.

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