Obama to implement mandatory community service for students?

[JITB]

Another thing I haven't agreed with him on. Why the hell should the government interfere with the cost of college. What if I don't want the damn tax credit? I have already had this argument before.

and im gonna say what everyone else has told you. not everyone can afford to not work, and go to school, and get taken care of. It dont work like that for everyone.
How do you expect anyone to pay for any kind of education, when they can barely feed themselves. There are people that would do 1 million hours of community service to go to school.
There are scholarships/degrees that require alot of Community Service, so to a College student community service is not a big deal. Community service is a all positive thing, nothing bad comes out of it. I mean you have 365 days to serve 50-100hours of comunity service you can do a few hours a week, and still get it done. You spend more than 50 hours on IA, but you wont get out and do some community service for your community.

[Alan®]

and im gonna say what everyone else has told you. not everyone can afford to not work, and go to school, and get taken care of. It dont work like that for everyone.
How do you expect anyone to pay for any kind of education, when they can barely feed themselves. There are people that would do 1 million hours of community service to go to school.
There are scholarships/degrees that require alot of Community Service, so to a College student community service is not a big deal. Community service is a all positive thing, nothing bad comes out of it. I mean you have 365 days to serve 50-100hours of comunity service you can do a few hours a week, and still get it done. You spend more than 50 hours on IA, but you wont get out and do some community service for your community.

And as I have said I agree with you BUT something like what the OP posted shouldn't be MANDATED whether or not you claim the tax credit.

And I'm sorry I still don't agree with the the federal government using tax dollars to fund private citizens education.The only instance I really agree with it in is in the case of the G.I. Bill, military, peace corps service etc.

This is why Obama's plan doesn't make any sense to me. The only thing he is really changing is that there will be more ways to get the money but according to him it's only $4k. And he hasn't said whether that would be for a semester or for a year. Depending on where you go $4K ain't shit. Especially over a year. Hell I just took a look at my account and It's $4K a year just to go to Gordon and they don't offer all that much. And that's before books, gas, etc.

I had a buddy last year that served in the marines got out and went to college all paid for by the marines and he got a lot more than $4k. He got a full ride and then some. If it was me instead of claiming the tax credit I'd go ahead and serve in the military and get the full benefit and not have to worry about any of it.

There are more ways of getting your higher education funded then by getting a tax credit from the federal government.There are countless of billions of dollars out there in scholarships, a lot of my friends didn't have the money to go to college so what did they do? Join the service, apply for scholarships etc. Like I said Obama's plan in this respect doesn't really change anything. It just makes less available but more ways to get at it. Make sense?

[Bridged]

I love the idea! I feel like I might be able to trust Obama to tell us how it is and not lie. Which is what we need. He will do just fine I think.

[Alan®]

I love the idea! I feel like I might be able to trust Obama to tell us how it is and not lie. Which is what we need. He will do just fine I think.

He is a politician dude don't trust him too much.

[Bridged]

He is a politician dude don't trust him too much.

I worked for the Government for 5+ years. Trust me, I know about that alot more than you and have seen it first hand, if you knew half the shit I knew about you would be in the UK or another place right now. An with that exp. I think he will try hard and not lie about the important stuff. Trust is what we need right now. Will he? Who knows. I think he will though.

[tatodotcom]

if you want to get a scholarship or grant by doing community service than great....but mandating this is simply wrong...i pay to go to school and i should be able to choose what i do during the other time.....mandating this is not right

[tony]

if you want to get a scholarship or grant by doing community service than great....but mandating this is simply wrong...i pay to go to school and i should be able to choose what i do during the other time.....mandating this is not right

reading is fundamental, its not mandatory.

[jwrape]

Ok, so he reduces tuition in exchange for community service, I totally can be on board with that, but why make retired 55+ folks do community service? That makes no sense. They worked all their lives to only go back to work?

[JITB]

Ok, so he reduces tuition in exchange for community service, I totally can be on board with that, but why make retired 55+ folks do community service? That makes no sense. They worked all their lives to only go back to work?

Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.

Most retired folks work small part time jobs anyway and or volunteer to stay busy. People who have worked hard all their life have a hard time staying all day watching tv.... but i dont really understand that phrase about the older people either..lol