Reply #295: You think slavery is a coming?

[mobuto]

Wow. You do.

And I do find it more radical to require community service during the school year, coupled with students being forced to give up their summers,

What's so especially radical about that?

and old people being "encouraged" to serve at the risk of losing medical benefits (what else would you call being able to use the so-called "credits" for medical services?

Unless I am being misled by the Senator's rhetoric, his plan calls for the providing of additional medical benefits on top of what would ordinarily be available. Since so many millions of seniors volunteer as it is, this would have the effect of rewarding just the kind of civic mindedness you seem to take umbrage at.