When our economy ultimately goes bust, will you be happy just to work in one of Obama's forced labor gulags?

Taken from an Obama speech:


Today, AmeriCorps - our nation's network of local, state and national service programs - has 75,000 slots. I know firsthand the quality of these programs. My wife Michelle once left her job at a law firm to be the founding director of an AmeriCorps program in Chicago that trains young people for careers in public service. These programs invest Americans in their communities and their country. They tap America's greatest resource - our citizens.





As President, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots, and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem - they are the answer.





We'll send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods. We'll enlist veterans to help other vets find jobs and support, and to be there for our military families. And we'll also grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.





And we'll use technology to connect people to service. We'll expand USA Freedom Corps to create an online network where Americans can browse opportunities to volunteer. You'll be able to search by category, time commitment, and skill sets; you'll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities. This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda, and make their own change from the bottom up.





We also need to invest in ideas that can help us meet our common challenges, because more often than not, the next great social innovation won't be generated by the government.





The non-profit sector employs 1 in 12 Americans and 115 nonprofits are launched every day. Yet while the federal government invests $7 billion in research and development for the private sector, there is no similar effort to support non-profit innovation. Meanwhile, there are ideas across America - in our inner cities and small towns; from college graduates, to seniors getting ready to retire - that could benefit millions of Americans if they're given the chance to grow.





As President, I will launch a new Social Investment Fund Network. It's time to get the grass roots, the foundations, the faith-based organizations, the private sector and the government at the table so that we can learn from our own success stories. We'll invest in ideas that work; leverage private sector dollars to encourage innovation; and expand successful programs to scale. Take a program like the Harlem Children's Zone, which helps thousands of kids in New York through after-school activities, mentoring, and family support. We need to make that model work in different cities across America. And just as we support small businesses, I'll start a new Social Entrepreneur Agency to make sure that small non-profits have strong support from Washington.|||Arbeit Macht Frei!|||it is bust...this is the worst time of our lives..unemployment will be 17 percent by jan 30th..after the holidays, there will be massive lay offs..|||You sure are a positive thinker.|||Butfit: as a matter of fact,,it would be nice to have a job after Bush runs the job market plunging like a rock thru water|||250,000 sounds like a pretty big Army to enforce a marxist way of life on the US|||I can't help but feel for the guy when he expects some good of us.


What is his problem?|||When you get a clue and decide that you will stop Obama hating, then we can discuss Ms. my Butwon't fit.|||NO but some Companies and Corporations will not like President Obama's Policies though, some Business Owners are not liking it already but you know the days on Easy Street are over give it up and help out the Workforce.|||When My Grandfather helped liberate a concetration camp in europe during WWII he saw a sign over the gate. He asked one of the guys in his outfit that had been learning a bit of German what it said. 'Work will set you free'. He never could have dreamed what he'd see inside that camp. The Hitler youth were moved by EXACTLY what Obama is proposing in this speech. I've been a history buff all of my life because I deeply believe in talking with those who lived through it, so that I might learn the lessons of the past before I am doomed to repeat them. I've sat for coffee and conversation with veterans of every war and police action I could find, on both sides. I always ask my elders, "What was life like in your day?" or when I see an older gentleman with tattooed arms I ask him about his ink and show him mine. I've seen and touched arms tattooed with identification numbers. I've seen and touched arms with, "Dec. 7th 1941. Never Forget." that were tattooed on December 8th before getting in line for the recruiter. Those lines for the Navy were so long that they wrapped around the block in NYC, so my Grandpa enlisted for the Army. I have a copy of his telegram to my Grandma that says, "Stop sending letters. STOP I'm coming home. STOP. Frankfurt Germany, 16th May 1946. He fought the whole war, shot twice, and kept fighting so he could live to tell his Grandkids what he saw on that gate...and what he soon found just beyond it. He told me to never forget what he was telling me. He told me to never be so arrogant as to think it could never happen again.


Rest in Peace, Gramps, I didn't forget.|||It will be amusing to watch liberals praise Obama for this when they've heavily criticized Pres. Bush for letting non-profits compete to provide services in government contracts.





This is even more entanglement, with the government just outright funding nonprofits and private agencies.|||Wow, comparing the AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, and community service to forced labor in a gulag. That has got to be a new low.





Do you people just really despise helping your fellow humans this much? I can only wonder how you can think that mentoring kids, supporting small charities, creating a network for for Americans to look up volunteer opportunities, and the other horrors you describe are equivalent to Stalin's death camps. It really blows the mind. But I am encouraged, because it is precisely this kind of mindless hatred which is ruining the Republican Party, so please, keep it up. Conservatives spew nonsense like this and then wonder why they lose elections. |||What a fear monger. Don't you have some conspiracy theory to prove or something? How many times does he have to say private sector for you to understand that instead of investing in government research and development and private for profit companies, he'll invest in private, non-profit company innovations?