They intend to get ALL middle school and high school students participating in volunteer work by withholding federal funding for schools that do not comply with providing programs and getting the students into them.

What kind of “choice” is that?

And they will get the college kids to “volunteer” 100 hours/yr by giving them a $4,000 tax credit — in other words, having you and me the taxpayer pay them FORTY DOLLARS AN HOUR to “volunteer” — for pay!

Listen to the words come right out of his mouth in this official BarackObama video clip:

He says in the video that they’ll make federal funds to schools conditional on compliance with the volunteer program.

The helpful graphics then reiterate the point, so there is no misunderstanding.

The relevant parts start about 2 minutes in.

And on their older official website,

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/service/

“Integrate service into learning:
Obama and Biden will set a goal that ALL middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year, and will establish a new tax credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.”

And you can bet that being in Boy Scouts of Junior ROTC won’t count, because they exclude homosexuals; but registering Democrats for ACORN is going to be dandy.