Obama's webpage, incidentally, has changed repeatedly on this issue and now appears to be backing off of the "mandatory" community service.
It doesn't surprise me.....it'll be over the insurance issue although they won't say that outright. If someone gets hurt or even fakes being hurt doing a job, as people do, then that is open to litigation...
this issue was brought up in my country one time and I spread it around about the insurance issue or I should day, workers compensation issue and they dropped the idea straight away....it hasn't been brought up since.
