Wanted: Obama healthcare reform volunteers willing to be paid $15 an hour

Los Angeles Times ^ | August 13, 2009

[Zakeet]

It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his political supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama's embattled healthcare reforms these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uncovered Americans.

[Zakeet]

[vrwconspiracist]

Rent-a-mob. Shame.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Canvassers? Aw shucks. I thought they were looking for professionals. For $15 an hour I’d give neurosurgery a try. That may be the going rate in a few years.

[boomop1]

How do you pay volunteers? Have they not become government lobbyist's. How illegal is this?

[Daisyjane69]

I’m between jobs.

I have half a mind to infiltrate this mob and let them pay me. LOL

Then again, some think I have a half a mind, period. heh

[depressed in 06]

Stimuless funds at work.

[dogcaller]

‘stimulus funds at work’...dig deep enough into Porkulus and you will find where their funding is coming from...should be renamed the Democrat Permanent Empowerment Act.

[Ditter]

We were on a fall driving trip and stayed at a motel somewhere in Missouri just before Clinton’s reelection. There was a bus load of Clinton supporters on their way to something. I wish I had chatted them up, pretended to be for Clinton and learned a little more about what they were doing. The truth is I despised Clinton so much that I could not even smile at these idiots who adored him, much less have a civil conversation with them.

[jersey117]

Is it legal to use stimulus money for this?

[HIDEK6]

If you’re paying them they’re not volunteers, they’re mercenaries.

[TBP]

The Obama Youth.

[KarlInOhio]

Grass seeds can be grown by other grass plants and spread by the wind to grow new roots. Astroturf has to be bought and its installers paid well.

[thethirddegree]

They’re willing to hold a sign but I’ll bet they are no match for a bunch of angry taxpayers.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Them’s the grassiest green shoot roots I ever saw.

[Marguerite]

The website's large-type headline announces: "Work to Pass Obama's Healthcare Plan and Get Paid to Do it! $10-15 hr!"

It's a web ad on Craigslist: "You can work for change. Join motivated staff around the country working to make change happen. You can make great friends and money along the way. Earn $400-$600 a week."

[DoughtyOne]

The L.A. Times pulls it's head out long enough to make this observation, and then comes to this conclusion.

So both sides appear to have paid lobbyists in this colossal summertime struggle for public opinion and control of the multi-billions flowing into the nation's burdened healthcare system.

Never was there a more clueless newspaper, read that propagandist to the max.

[Zathras]

Sorry, half a mind means you are way over qualified.
Actually, I was thinking the same thing. :-)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Free-wheelin', civic-minded FReepin FRiends! Here's your chance!

Here's the list of the 50 cities where the Fund for the Public Interest is hiring "volunteers" (at $10-$15 an hour) to "canvass," to "educate and organize" for the ObamaCare deal. So handy! Click to make an application to the city near you:

ONLINE APPLICATION FOR CITIZEN OUTREACH JOB

Even if you don't really want the job "at this time," it's an opportunity to make contact and show them you care. Oh, so deeply care.

But hey: there must be a lot of us (or our kids or grandkids, or out-of-work brother-in-laws) who would be willing to send in an online application and do this. I love educating. I love organizing.

And I can double-dog guarantee you I'd be both "fact-based" and "passionate."

Mwah! on both cheeks, comrade.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Interesting the disproportionate number of “college towns” on the list

[bmwcyle]

I guess we pay for this.

[pepperdog]

Well heck! No opportunities for us in Oklahoma, I guess they know they can’t make any headway here.

[longhorn too]

“Is it legal to use stimulus money for this?”

Badges, we don’t need no steeken badges!

[Judith Anne]

My state isn’t ON there!

I feel *so* neglected!

[GOPJ]

Rent-a-mob.

Well at least now the secret's out on what kind of "jobs" the liberals are creating with all that stimulus money.

[TYVets]

Missouri is not on the list.

A lost cause for 0bamacare and Crazy Claire?

[PGR88]

I would do the job to collect the money, sit on my @ss, and take notes on the communists our govt is supporting.

[Bitsy]

And, all this accomplished on my dime, right?

[bjorn14]

when I saw “both sides” in LAT article I thought where is their proof? Remember when fall down on astroturf you get burned.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’d like to bring in some extra money. Actually, not a bad idea!

[Mrs. Don-o]

You got the basic MO.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Got that right.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Go for it!

[rrstar96]

Pelican State ping

I hope Rush, Hannity, Levin, et al. are exposing this over the airwaves.

[maryz]

So both sides appear to have paid lobbyists

What do they mean, "both sides"? I don't see any mention or documentation of the anti-socialized medicine paying "volunteers"!

Nothing new for the Dems though -- I saw something on FR a couple of years ago: a Dem operative bragging about how they generated a fake groundswell for campaign finance reform.

I wonder how many of those "work-at-home" scams are really this . . .

[maryz]

How do you pay volunteers?

Where've you been? I think Clinton started it -- isn't AmeriCorps "paid volunteers"? I guess it works if they sticking to it . . .

[TexasRepublic]

Cool. Do I get a snappy looking uniform when I join?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’d do it just for the boots.

[villagerjoel]

“Mwah! on both cheeks, comrade.”

Ha ha. Well done comrade. ;)

[maggief]

[AuntB]

More on this here, with a screen shot of Craig’s list:

Tuesday, August 11, 2009
‘Help pass Obama’s health care reform! Earn $325-$550 per week!’ KNOW THY ENEMY!

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2009/08/help-pass-obamas-health-care-reform.html

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the screenshots. “Virtual Reality” has a tendency to disppear. Gotta save everything these days...

[GOPJ]

How do you pay volunteers? Have they not become government lobbyist's. How illegal is this?

As Gates would say, "Don't you know who I am?". These are elite dems - they're above the law. There not like the little people... And the press? They've known about this for years - that the people they show in their breathless news shots are really paid street people and unemployed students.

But the press never felt the need to tell the truth - dems get a pass...

[GOPJ]

How do you pay volunteers? Have they not become government lobbyist's. How illegal is this?

As Gates would say, "Don't you know who I am?". These are elite dems - they're above the law. There not like the little people... And the press? They've known about this for years - that the people they show in their breathless news shots are really paid street people and unemployed students.

But the press never felt the need to tell the truth - dems get a pass...

Check these posters out:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311664/posts

[maggief]

You are welcome. I thought I’d save FReepers the trouble of clicking the links. With the WH collecting data I not clicking any government link without using a proxy or VPN.

[freekitty]

Why don’t we join and educate about the Constitution?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Sounds like a plan!

[BARLF]

Do you look good in brown?)

[tiki]

Scary!

From the site:

And then there’s the profound, positive impact of canvassing on the people we canvass and the canvassers themselves. These impacts aren’t easily measured, but they undoubtedly help lay the groundwork for a healthier, more vibrant democracy.

Talk about double-speak!

[brewcrew]

I’m more interested in the “Best Free Web Game” at the top of page 2.

[TexasRepublic]

“Do you look good in brown?”

Jawohl!