We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.- Barack Obama
He's talking about replicating Katimavik here in the States.
Katimavik
It
sounds nice, but one has to question how long it would take this "voluntary" service to become compulsory. Not at the point of a gun, but rather by attaching school funding and the like to requirements for "public service", as defined by Obama.
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. - Michelle Obama
Buyer beware...