God Bless our soldiers and our President!!

Get a grip on reality and stop being so “politically appalled” when you or your children are asked to step up and do your part.

Furthermore, I am the child of a German mother and an American soldier. My parents have been married for almost 50 years and I have spent a good part of my life in Germany. How dare you compare our President to the likes of Hitler??? If you get your head out of your butt, you would see the changes he is calling for are nothing like what Hitler wanted. Hitler wanted to rule the world under fear and oppression. Barrack Obama wants to put America back in the status of a solid world leader deserving of respect and admiration. But he alone did not create this mess our country finds itself in right now nor can he fix it alone. Furthermore, thanks to our democratic government, he can’t “change” all of it without support. Step up to the plate,accept responsibility and do your part for our country, or go elsewhere.

Reading between the lines, savages=gang bangers=blacks.

This presupposes that you believe that it was the gang bangers who got O elected. Just how many gang bangers do you think there are in America and how many of them do you imagine voted at all, being the savages they are.

I’m serving in Iraq right now (23 years of service and counting). I serve freely and am against any “requirement” to serve based solely on the merits of what that argument infers. However, it doesn’t matter what color, ethnic group, or social status is “required” to serve because an injustice to any AMERICAN is an injustice to every AMERICAN.

Reign in the terror talk. O is just a man and a politician. He’ll come and go and the country will still survive like it always have. The question we should be asking isn’t “who is right?”. We should always ask “WHAT is right?”. Support him when you think he’s right and practice clear and nonviolent dissent when you think he’s wrong.

If you find that you can’t agree with any single word or policy that he presents then that means you are probably against the man, not his ideals.

Sometimes I wonder if civilians will ever learn what Soldiers figure out after the first month in the military. Service requires sacrifice. Not because you’ll always want to but because you understand that it’s to support something greater than yourself: freedom (for liberals, conservatives, Dems, Pubs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, etc. = ALL AMERICANS)and your fellow man (Black, White, Red, Yellow, Brown, or other = ALL AMERICANS).

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams

The rest of us who have jobs, or 2 jobs to make ends meet, can’t afford to work for free.

Obama needs to start with the savages of society. I’d like to see all the gang bangers off the streets and doing good, giving back, helping out, serving food a food pantry, spending time with cancer patients, or helping in the ER at a local hospital. I’m sure they all voted for Obama because he’s the first black man in the white house, but let’s see if they’re first to sign up and volunteer….they should put their (drug) money where their mouth is.

I know many schools require this as a need for graduation. This is something your community decided would be a good thing for you to do… That is your community.

Local government, generally, knows what is best for it’s students. Your community, I am sure has had open discussion about this matter… in which you were, I am sure, able to participate in.

Obama is talking about a national plan… whether or not he rewards some students with $40/hour is besides the point… This is the same think as the Department of Education saying your school must teach every student Algebra II, even though that class may have no need to be taught in your area…

Keep the Federal mandates to a minimum please…

You have a voice on the local level… I hope you use it. We have no true voice on the national level.

You’re completely right. Let’s eliminate math and science as well because Christ if a kid doesn’t want to do it it can’t possibly benefit them in the least. We all know how much kids hate math and science.

Jesus you people are out of touch with reality.

This was REQUIRED to graduate. If you did not do it, which many students skipped, you had to complete it over the summer to get your diploma.

So if a local school does it it is good for the kids but if a President does it it is socialism?

Since when does community service equal slavery? I’m not sure how people can make a jump from planting trees and serving food in a soup kitchen to the Hitler Youth. It’s just as easy and makes the same amount of sense to make the jump from some of your statements to fascism.

The argument “Well why shouldn’t teenagers do community service? It’ll be good for them!” is flawed, IMO, for a couple reasons:

Give a 16 year-old something he HAS to do in order to graduate and he or she will be annoyed by it and treat it like a job. They’ll do it half-assed or skirt the rules somehow and NOT do it, and ultimately bear resentment toward the person or power who made him do it in the first place. In this case, it’s the government who, by exerting power through schools, is not encouraging the student to be inspired to work for his or her community.

Community service is something done VOLUNTARILY out of love and passion for the community, not love and passion for the government. It makes the person and the community better if it is done by choice, not by force or coercion.

This can be found under the agenda tab, just click on Defense. The first on is the 4th paragraph. The second one is near the bottom under “Develop Whole of Government Initiatives to Promote Global Stability”

“Recruitment and Retention Problems: A country of 300 million strong should not struggle to find enough qualified citizens to serve. Recruiting and retention problems have been swept under the rug by an administration that does not understand the value of service to our nation.”
Does he plan on reintroducing the draft?

”Create a Civilian Assistance Corps (CAC): An Obama-Biden administration will set a goal of creating a national CAC of 25,000 personnel. This corps of civilian volunteers with special skill, sets (doctors, lawyers, engineers, city planners, agriculture specialists, police, etc.) would be organized to provide each federal agency with a pool of volunteer experts willing to deploy in times of need at home and abroad.”

So is he going to take skilled workers and tell them that if they want to continue working they will have to “volunteer” for him or else?

This can be found under the agenda tab, just click on Diabilities.
“Third, increase the employment rate of workers with disabilities.”

Does this mean putting them in jobs americans just wont do? HAHA I hope he doesn’t plan on putting people in jobs they aren’t qualified for just because he feels they should be employed somewhere. I mean my grandmother is deaf, but I doubt very much that is she were to go back to whork she would be a telephone operator.

This can be found under the agenda tab, just click on Economy. This is just a about two sections down under “Provide Middle Class Americans Tax Relief”

“Simplify Tax Filings for Middle Class Americans: Obama and Biden will dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes. Obama and Biden will ensure that the IRS uses the information it already gets from banks and employers to give taxpayers the option of pre-filled tax forms to verify, sign and return. Experts estimate that the Obama-Biden proposal will save Americans up to 200 million total hours of work and aggravation and up to $2 billion in tax preparer fees.”

So the government makes a complicated tax system that they can barly understand, and they want to do your taxes for us? I doubt very much the governement is going to take more than is necessary and is going to find every tax-excempt filing for each american.

“Zero to Five Plan: The Obama-Biden comprehensive “Zero to Five” plan will provide critical support to young children and their parents. Unlike other early childhood education plans, the Obama-Biden plan places key emphasis at early care and education for infants, which is essential for children to be ready to enter kindergarten. Obama and Biden will create Early Learning Challenge Grants to promote state “zero to five” efforts and help states move toward voluntary, universal pre-school.”

I think this explains what was originally on his America Serves tabe (see screen shot above.) This is his plan for government to “help raise” children from 0 to 5 years old. Nothing like indoctrination for the young.

These were the only things I was able to save from the website. I was hoping to continue this week and read thru the rest.