18 - 25 year old mandatory service?

I was listening to the radio today when Rahm Emanuel was quoted as saying
“All Americans between the ages of 18 – 25 years old should be put into 3-months of mandatory community service.”

From Rahm Emanuel’s book “The Plan” on pages 61-62
It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.


It took me by surprise at first but then I realized the real ramifications of such an act.

1.With an ever expanding and increasing government, more public servants will be needed to keep up with the growth.
2.This is an obvious expansion of AmeriCorps. The Serve America Act will increase the size of AmeriCorps from 75,000 volunteers to 250,000 by 2017.
3.Not unlike Soviet Youth Programs, this would lead to a venue for spreading propaganda favoring the party in power.

Representative Michele Bachmann is quoted saying:
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically-correct forums.

What I find the most interesting is that Representative Bachmann made her statement in April of this year and was shouted down by Obama supporters.

Rahm Emanuel made his statement yesterday and no one is saying a thing.

Looks like Representative Bachmann was on the right tract and the Obama shouters were misled again.

The Act was passed as a voluntary program, but now they are “talking” about mandatory service. True to form, give them an inch and they will try and take a mile.