I agree that public service is very important. The USA has far more volunteers doing meaningful public service work than in any other nation in the world. We are the most generous giving money to charities.

Making public service mandatory is the main point in this blog. If public service should be made mandatory then donations to charities and serving in the army should be mandatory, etc., etc. History shows that Nazis and Communists used these ideas of mandatory “public service” to enslave entire nations. Hitler Jugend, Young Communist’s Groups, etc., were sold as “public service” for the country, or for the “liberation” of the world. So when I see Obama’s proposal of Public Service Academy I smell the old and discredited Nazi or Communist propaganda. The real intention is to control more and more through mandating more and more and more in the name of public service. This creates new Departments, state jobs for cronies, leads to loss of personal freedom and choices and ends anything that made this country the greatest and best.

Finally Obama was never a public servant. He was a community organizer meaning he was a propagandist for the Democratic Party knocking on doors to “convince” citizens to vote for his party. Then he becomes a fast-track career politician doing nothing but advancing in the ranks. This man is a very dangerous politician with plenty of Bolshevik ideas in his head.

Americans may want smaller government, but they also want effective government services. The way to turn this trick is to have the best possible people go into the public sector. We should be doing everything we can — including the proposed Public Service Academy — to attract and retain a higher caliber public servant. These top-quality Academy graduates could help make our public institutions more effective and economical. Who could be against that?