Werd: Service - Part Three

Posted by Patrick Snajder Categories: Editorials, Media, Site Features

The general objections^[1] I have found against Obama’s proposed America Serves program are:

1. This unpaid manpower will be used for nefarious means; with the volunteers steered into programs that support Obama’s socialist goals.

2. The program will cost taxpayers money in subsidizing the college grants and insuring and providing resources for students to complete their service and is another example of government waste without any quantifiable levels of improvement.

3. These service programs are one step away from the institution of a military draft.

4. Service to one’s community necessarily derivatives from the American Dream, which is one of individual primacy, not a communal movement.

5. Giving jobs to unpaid students will debilitate the market for paying jobs and therefore will send us down the road to a complete communist state.

6. What is suggested as altruistic service often becomes government-subsidized coercion: a violation of an American’s right to serve as they chose to, whether paid or not.

[Sources: The Heritage Foundation blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, this Mises.org forum,  Lew Rockwell editorial, and Bovard’s objections to the AmeriCorps program as outlined in Wikipedia.]

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