Obama Wants To Do What?
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Election Time, Foreign Affairs & Policy
Is this for serious?
Obama promised to increase AmeriCorps slots from 75,000 to 250,000 and pledged to double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011.
Presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona also supports an expansion of both programs and has stressed public service, including in the military, during campaign appearances.
Obama repeated his pledge to boost the size of the active military. But he also said the nation’s future and safety depends on more than just additional soldiers.
“It also depends on the teacher in East L.A., or the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans, the Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, the Foreign Service officer in Indonesia,” he said.
Obama had first outlined many of the proposals he talked about Wednesday during appearances in Iowa last December.
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said Wednesday. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.“
What in the world does that mean? A civilian national security force? Is he really suggesting a brand new program with the same budget as the military?
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen proposed. I can’t wait to see how he equivocates, backtracks and flip-flops on this statement.
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