Houses Approves Mandatory Volunteer Service Corps
That’s right. The voluntary service of qualifying youths will be mandatory under this plan.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed.
The legislation also refers to “uniforms” that would be worn by the “volunteers” and the “need” for a “public service academy, a 4-year institution” to “focus on training” future “public sector leaders.” The training, apparently, would occur at “campuses.”
The vote yesterday came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.
Leave it to the dim bulbs in Congress to come up with something that’s voluntarily mandatory. You’ll do it, or they’ll make you do it.
But that laughable bit of stupidity aside, this is actually rather scary. Government-run campuses aimed at “training” future bureaucrats and politicians? A place where attendance will be mandatory?
This sounds suspiciously like indoctrination camps aimed at producing a new generation of “citizens” who will be much easier for the government to manage without all this foolish dissent and debate. And why not. It’s not like we’re living in a free country or anything.
