Obama is likely celebrating the Senate passing the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act (GIVE Act) today.  It passed with huge support in the House and the Senate responded similarly.

This bill adds $6 billion to the budget over five years, to create 175,000 new AmeriCorps volunteer opertunities.

Among the things created by the bill is the Congressional Commission on Civic Service.  This commision is designed to study various topics concerning “volunteer working” by citizens.  This in itself is hardly anything to worry about, but in the same section of the bill, 6104, it states that the commission should determine, “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.”

Mandatory service is in direct violation of the Constitution and is known by a more common name to most – slavery.

Obama denies that there is any plan to institute mandatory service, but the orginal wording of his page on change.gov stated exactly that.  It was only after fears of the idea started to tarnish his name, that the wording was changed to state that Americans would be “encouraged” to complete, “50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year”.

Mandatory service is an abomination that should not even been considered, let alone planned for. Mandatory service from our nation’s youth – the most impressionable of us – should be a bright red warning flag to those who remember anything of history.  That there were almost no cries against this bill in either branch of the Congress, tells just how corrupt the entire Federal government has become.