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.
[real popular among terrorists and their nut job supporters]
I forgot the name but read that it was the same as Arafat wore on his head. We are all familiar with Arabs wearing them.
Effeminate on a man
I never thought of it that was since all through the years we were used to seeing Arabs dressed like that. Even the robes rather than pants. It was just the garb of their culture. Jesus wore robes.
Someone wrote to Dear Abby, saying that her husband liked skirts to work in because they were cooler!! Lol. Abby said there are many men who wear kilts because of that.
I've never run into one yet, lol.
You gotta read this executive order issued by Obama to the DoD in relation to the new DoD Civilian Expeditionary Work Force, which is to serve in a military support role:
http://www.dtc.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/140410p.pdf
And that includes on the battlefield by the sound of it.
Bttt
Der Obamafuhrer..
Thanks for the ping!
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I am also trying to imagine an Obama-waffe, or an O-stapo.
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