Posted on 03/21/2009 4:00:40 PM PDT by pissant
Remember this? (see video at link)
Obama's vision of a domestic security force "just as strong, just as well funded as our military" ( and presumbly loyal to him personally) just got a lot closer.
The House of representatives has just passed HR 1388 otherwise known as the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act. This reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.
However, it not only reauthorizes the programs, but also includes "new programs and studies" and an allocation of $6 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
When you look at the language of the bill closely,it gets even more interesting.The bill specifically mentions possibilities if "all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service."
If these requirements were made mandatory, the bill says it "would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds."
And it mentions "The means to develop awareness of national service and volunteer opportunities at a young age by creating, expanding, and promoting service options for elementary and secondary school students, through service learning or other means, and by raising awareness of existing incentives."
Those groups of volunteers would according to the bill, be "grouped together as appropriate in campuses for operational, support, and boarding purposes. The Corps campus for a unit shall be in a facility or central location established as the operational headquarters and boarding place for the unit. There shall be a superintendent for each camp."
Take a minute to think about the implications of all this, given the sort of person who's in the White House.
All of these things were hidden away within the 200 pages of legislation..and the bill itself was mainly billed as federal support for establishing the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America as "a National Day of Service and Remembrance."
Some of the smarter boys like Duncan Hunter weren't fooled, but a number of others were..and the bill passed with an enthusiastic yes from every Democrat who's been on record as consistently voting against anything to do with our military or national security...Neil Abercrombie, John Conyers, Jim McDermott,George Miller, Jim Moran, Nancy Pelosi..and of course Keith Ellison.The whole crew was there, unfortunately joined by a number of people who I expected would know better.
Paranoid? Perhaps, but this bears close watching.Why spend six bil on this just now?
At this point, I don't trust the current occupant of the White House in the least. But you can't say I didn't give him a chance.
play this for them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
But don't do it to the illegals, it's soooo immoral.
Hey, look—Hussein has a Hamas boyfriend.
The GIVE Act H.R.1388 To reauthorize and reform the national service laws was introduced March 9 by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.) with 12 co-sponsors (Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Del. Gregorio Sablan (I-MP), Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.), Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.), Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.), Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.), Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas), Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii)).
It should come as no surprise to RBO readers that four of the original co-sponsors (33%) Grijalva, Hare, Hirono, and Miller are current members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; Grijalva is CPC co-chair.
There are 25 co-sponsors, eight more of which are also CPC members: Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Penn.); Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.); Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), CPC vice chair; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.); Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.); Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.); Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.); and Rep. Lynne Woolsey (D-Calif.), CPC co-chair.
You can almost expect more of the same 2002 crowd from the Congressional Progressive Caucus to sign on: Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.); Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.); Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.); Rep. Rosa DaLauro (D-Conn.) or others who have taken the place of former CPC members. http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=166&ParentID=0&SectionID=4&SectionTree=4&lnk=b&ItemID=164
The bill appears to be on the House vote fast track. “Because representatives of the House, Senate and White House have been working together on a bipartisan basis for weeks, the skids are now greased for quick Senate passage of the Kennedy-Hatch Act for national service, the only specific piece of legislation the president mentioned in his address to Congress last month. Differences between the House and Senate versions will be minor.”
Not only that, three guesses as to the membership of the Education and Labor Committee. Heres a clue Miller is Committee Chair. The others? Andrews, Clarke, Grijalva, Hare, Hinojosa, Hirono, Kildee, McCarthy, Payne, Polis, Sestak, Tierney, Tonko, and Woolsey.
There are three more co-sponsors who are not members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus but are members of the Education and Labor Committee: Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.); Rep. Gregorio Sablan (MP); Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.).
Want to take any bets against this bill passing in the House? Any takers?
So. Whats the big deal? Whats this all about?
Lets look at what the blogosphere has to say:
Thanks for the ping.
Here’s contact info for every senator.
http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/issues/stopstimulus.html
Im still stuck on How did we elect Obama?
It could only have happened with full co-operation from the Republican carpetbaggers.
22 posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:52:30 PM by philetus (Keep doing what you always
Fools, idiots, and parasites voting aided and abetted by the Republican Party.
If you can stomach it, you should stop by their website pslweb.org
Their a bunch of Che loving communist
The Leftist claim to compassion always was a con job used as a weapon by the to build the size of government while exacerbating the problems that it claims to solve. Government compassion does not target the needy, but instead leads to state control of everyones education, health care, and retirement security. In Thomas Sowells phrase, The left uses the poor as human shields.
LOL.
Funded in the billions now by your income taxes by Congress and Hussein II”
Can you give me a link that explains this?
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You must watch Fox New Channel and/or listen to Rush and Sean - the exposure was impossible to miss
Billions directed towards “community organizers” were allocated in the latest bailout bill passed by Congress and signed by Hussein II
Try GOOGLE too
Can we wake up and organize in time? Perhaps the Glenn Beck link in the article may do it.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/conservative-sites-being-blocked.html
Be Ever Vigilant!
When you look at the language of the bill closely,it gets even more interesting.The bill specifically mentions possibilities if "all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service." If these requirements were made mandatory, the bill says it "would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds." And it mentions "The means to develop awareness of national service and volunteer opportunities at a young age by creating, expanding, and promoting service options for elementary and secondary school students, through service learning or other means, and by raising awareness of existing incentives."
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