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You forget that there are at least 2 groups of people who would be delighted to volunteer at PP, and always will:

1) People who genuinely appreciate PP's relentless willingness to provide medical care to anyone who needs it.

2) The people who will do whatever it takes to oppose "the other team". Tons of people on this list playing for both teams these days.

Oh, and if you really think that 'mandatory volunteering' is a real possibility... I have a tinfoil hat for you. (It'll protect you from the black helicopters!)

Oh, and if you really think that 'mandatory volunteering' is a real possibility... I have a tinfoil hat for you. (It'll protect you from the black helicopters!)

Well, the bill's own language calls for an investigation of the feasibility of such a requirement. If mandatory service was such an ideological problem to so many moderates on your site, then why does the bill contain this language:

Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

When the bill was being debated, several lefties called for Pell Grant and Stafford Loan eligibility to be tied to participation in these Federal community organizing/volunteer programs.

Granted, that isn't mandatory per se, however if college becomes so expensive that it is out of reach to most Americans lacking government assistance, and the only way to get that government assistance is to participate in a Marxist brownshirt program, then such requirements become coercive to such a degree as to make such programs virtually mandatory.

Some backers of the bill also wanted to tie Federal education funding to high schools to student participation in these programs. In that case, students would have no choice but to participate.

It's as if it doesn't even matter what the Democrats say, you're just going to tell them to fuck off over anything, regardless of whether what they're proposing sounds universally beneficial.

It's singleminded naysaying, a defence mechanism against things you don't understand and outright refuse to, just so you can claim another worthless victory from a system you've been pre-programmed to hate.

They want to introduce a program to encourages people to help each other - “WHAT!? How dare they tell us what to do, if we want to be inconsiderate douchebags, we have every right to be, and we don't care who it hurts...”

You can't legislate kindness, Aqua.

Aquatarkus, you would be singing a different tune if Bush would have implemented a mandatory service program.

The reason why these programs are bad is the same reason why government censorship of media, even in the interest of "civility", is always a bad idea: namely, the people tasked with making determinations of "good" and "bad" cannot be trusted.

The headline of this post says it all. The government service program is being used to advance a political agenda. When you combine mandatory service with partisans recruiting unfree labor to advance their causes, you begin to descend rapidly to a totalitarian society.

No agenda, be it left-wing or right-wing, should ever be furthered by compulsory citizen participation. I know you would have a huge problem with being shanghaied into supporting one of Bush's pet causes, so you should at least give the same respect to those who don't want to be part of a left-wing chain gang.

I see meth and so-stoned are all for killing babies because people are too stupid to use contraceptives. What classy indidviduals you scum are.

You know your a liberal when you have a window sticker reading KEEP ABORTION LEGAL and bumper stickers reading SAVE THE REDWOODS,SAVE THE RAINFORESTS

It's as if it doesn't even matter what the Democrats say, you're just going to tell them to fuck off over anything, regardless of whether what they're proposing sounds universally beneficial.

It's singleminded naysaying, a defence mechanism against things you don't understand and outright refuse to, just so you can claim another worthless victory from a system you've been pre-programmed to hate.

They want to introduce a program to encourages people to help each other - “WHAT!? How dare they tell us what to do, if we want to be inconsiderate douchebags, we have every right to be, and we don't care who it hurts...”

"Pro-abortion muscle"?? Yeah, right.

Check them out.

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Aquaboy quit copying and pasting the same thing on different threads,isn't it your bedtime?

I wonder if that IS Aquatarkus. He's usually not so redundant.

Judith,
Stupidity isn't redundant? :)

Actually, stupidity can be very creative, Farmer Ted, like those moonbats in the sweatlodge, for instance. ;)

Anonymous Countermoonbat made a very thoughtful and compelling post up there. Trolls, please read. This will all apply to you when the winds shift.

Mandatory service would allow you to attend, Community Organizer College upon completion of your service!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBGwwVUVMU

The idea of anyone murdering helpless unborn children gets me and my omni-sexual mate sooo hot.

Blimey!

I see meth and so-stoned are all for killing babies because people are too stupid to use contraceptives. What classy indidviduals you scum are.

Goatse has claimed that contraception availability and sex education will reduce abortions, but refuses to say whether it was carelessness or ignorance that led him to knock up his sister and then kill it for his convenience.

Getting pregnant and then aborting it is the ultimate freedom of sexual empowerment

I assume when you are pro-abortion you mean abortion for someone else. Kind of silly for someone who is alive to think this way, don't you think?