Posted on 03/26/2009 6:53:11 PM PDT by joygrace
Yeah...but ACORN has the 2010 Census...reporting right back into the White House....kiss goodby to the election.
Why in the world would so many Republicans vote yes for this???
____________
They are in on it or they are idiots. Take your pick. We can’t count on the GOP to save this country. The task is in our hands.
“Deliver us from this evil, Dear Lord.”
Rapture works for me. I want outa here.
They better damn well consider how “fair” it would be to send my 110 lb. blond haired blue eyed daughter down to that diverse cesspool of Pine Hills in Orlando for MANDATORY service to bring those thugs “together”!
Long sentence,.... deep breath....
I did not expect Voinovich to side with the dems.
Thank you for bringing this out. How can we get this on talk radio? We have got to get the word out!!!!
The 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, taking place June 22-24 at the Moscone Center - West in the heart of San Francisco, is the world’s largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors. Come to the San Francisco Bay Area to tap into the renewed enthusiasm for volunteering to meet critical community needs and participate in vital conversations about the future of service and volunteering in America. Come away inspired, refreshed and energized!
THIS YEAR’S THEME — “Civic. Energy. Generation.” — reflects the tremendous excitement in our nation today as people of all ages and backgrounds unify in a powerful movement to bring about social change.
The 2009 conference will be held at the Moscone West in San Francisco, which consists of over two million square feet of meeting space and is a certified eco-friendly facility.http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/
Featured Speakers : Andy Goodman About Andy Goodman
Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, free-range thinking, to share best practices in the field.
Andy is best known for his speeches and workshops on storytelling, presenting, design and strategic communications, and has been invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences. He currently serves on the faculty of the Communications Leadership Institute, which trains nonprofit executive directors and grantmakers.
In 2007, Al Gore selected Andy to train one thousand volunteers who are currently helping the former Vice President engage more Americans in the fight against global warming. In 2008, Andy co-founded The Goodman Center to offer online versions of his workshops and additional communications and marketing classes to nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions across the U.S. and worldwide. When not teaching, traveling, or recovering from teaching and traveling, Andy also serves as a Senior Fellow for Civic Ventures and is on the advisory boards of VolunteerMatch and Great Nonprofits.
Grants to - Political and greeny based non-profits with an agenda. CHICAGO COMES TO THE BELTWAY and cities throughout America.
We should call this thing by it's name: corvée
I'd expect the compulsion will be exerted via the schools. Districts, school boards, and principals will arrive at an understanding with their betters on how many volunteers they produce and what they'll be able to get or keep in return.
The teachers will carry out the subtle recruiting.
We know they'll withhold the word "mandatory"(implying the stick) as long as possible. The corvée will rely rewards:granting or withholding them. Grades, letters of recommendations will be understood to be rewards.
Withholding reward is not, theoretically, punishment. But it is in fact, and kids will realize this instantly. Combined with the meetings, discussion groups for the ladling of propaganda, the jealousy over assignments and favoritism, and the boredom, they'll soon despise it and scorn its agents.
They'll be burning their draft cards in town square.
Senator Hutchison voted “yea.” I called her office and voiced my opposition. I also told the staffer that she could forget about my vote if she decides to run for governor of Texas because she has proven herself to be irresponsible. The staffer said she voted for it because it had “some good programs in it” and I said that it didn’t matter because we can’t afford it and that it was one more nail in the bankruptcy coffin of our nation. (I didn’t want to get into any of the details of the bill because the staffer sounded clueless.) Her number is: 202-224-5922.
I will also call Sen. Cornyn and thank him for his opposition: 202-224-2934.
Look what I found....... “As he builds a $1.75 billion empire, Michael Milken reaches into an old bag of tricks.”
Some geniuses are driven by an inevitable force. Case in point: Michael Milken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken Thus we find the former junk bond king, now 55 and barred for life from securities activities, sitting on the throne of a $1.75 billion private education empire that includes private and publicly traded companies. The old suspicions still dog him. But even those suspicious of him say that, by all appearances, he appears to be doing it right this time. So what’s the catch?
His new sovereignty, Knowledge Universe, oversees nearly 50 companies, many of them interlocking. Some are wholly owned by KU. In others, KU holds anything from a majority to minority portion, (see chart). What they all share is place and purpose within Milken’s latest grand vision, one reminiscent of his junk bond kingdom from which he made as much as $500 million annually. Together, Milken’s new numbers include 14,000 employees worldwide. Though only 5 years old, Knowledge Universe is already on the brink of dominating several sectors of what is being called the Internet’s next killer app: e-learning. A space so vast, with a potential market of more than $10 billion a year, online learning could turn out to be the richest truffle since Milken sniffed out the untapped potential of high-yield debt.
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/0910/064.html Corporation for National and Community Service Board Chairman - Urges Service Stimulus
Submitted by NationalService on Wed, 12/10/2008 http://servicewire.org/content/20081210/nsb/Stories-Field/Corporation-National-and-Community-Service-Board-Chairman-and-For **Stephen Goldsmith** is the chairman of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service programs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Goldsmith#Chief_domestic_policy_advisor Goldsmith is currently a Partner of Knowledge Universe, which invests in internet-oriented education companies, day care and childhood learning companies... Goldsmith also serves on the boards of several companies including: National and Board Leadership
• Chairman, Corporation for National and Community Service
• Chair, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation
• Board Member, Fannie Mae Foundation
• Board Member, Homes for Working Families
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/faculty/cv/StephenGoldsmith.pdf
Well, they are employed by US to represent us and aren’t getting paid to be clueless! I was furious when I found out she had voted for this!
http://www.knowledgeu.com/ Nice. These volunteers also gets Guv money to send their kids to KinderCare Learning Centers -(an American operator of for-profit child care facility)(Knowledge Universe Learning Group)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KinderCare_Learning_Centers
Does anyone else see a huge conflict of interest? From what I posted?
Stephen Goldsmith is the chairman of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service and is currently a Partner of Knowledge Universe. LOL
Did you see this?
This should be posted as a new thread!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.