Emanuel: Time for a new contract with America

[thundley4]

And we thought Obama was scary?   

1. A new social contract -- universal citizen service, universal college access, universal retirement savings, and universal children's health care -- that makes clear what you can do for your country and what your country can do for you.

2. A return to fiscal responsibility and an end to corporate welfare as we know it.

3. Tax reform to help those who aren't wealthy build wealth.

4. A new strategy to use all America's strengths to win the war on terror.

5. A Hybrid Economy that cuts America's gasoline consumption in half over the next decade.

Halfway down the page or so.

[Wretched Excess]

that is a contract on america

[Tnafbrat]

How clockwork orange

[NHSparky]

Contracts can be expensive to draw up, Rahm.  Maybe that $250K Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae gave you can help with that.

[USA4ME]

In a 1910 speech to Civil War veterans in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt responded to the challenges of his day by calling for "a New Nationalism, without which we cannot hope to deal with new problems." As Roosevelt said in that speech:

"At every stage, and under all circumstances, the essence of the struggle is to equalize opportunity, destroy privilege, and give to the life and citizenship of every individual the highest possible value. . . . We work in a spirit of broad and far-reaching nationalism when we work for what concerns people as a whole. We are all Americans. Our common interests are as broad as the continent."

A century later, we must be just as inventive, practical, and fearless in addressing the challenges of our time, with a new patriotism that brings us together again in a common mission. We propose a new bargain between the people and their country -- a social contract to equip Americans for the twenty-first century and unite us in higher national purpose. The terms of this bargain may be new, but the bedrock principle is not: You do your part, and your government, your company, and your country will do theirs.

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John Kennedy was right: A nation is defined not by what it does for its citizens but by what it asks of them. If your leaders aren't challenging you to do your part, they aren't doing theirs. We need a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us by establishing for the first time an ethic of universal citizen service. All Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 should be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic civil defense training and community service. This is not a draft, nor is it military. Young people will be trained not as soldiers, but simply as citizens who understand their responsibilities in the event of a natural disaster, an epidemic or a terrorist attack. Universal citizen service will bring Americans of every background together to make America safer and more united in common purpose.

Something tells me this isn't going to go over too well with many.  And 18 to 25 years olds already have the Peace Corps and other organizations if they want to do that type of thing.

No doubt the "nationalism" and "patriotism" ideas floated won't go over well with the far left kooks, not even in this form.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

Yes Comrade!  Together we will carry out a Special Storm Assault on the problems of our economy, by rooting out the Breakers and Spies who must be causing it!  Death to the Breakers, Spies, and Defeatists!!!  All glory to the Little Father!!!  Ourrah!  OURRAH OBAMA!!!  Forward behind the redwhiteandblue banner!  OURRAH OBAMA! OURRAH the UNION OF SOCIALIST AMERICAN STATES!!!

 

[Odin's Hand]

The blogs are buzzing about his old man's operational ties to Irgun.