Posted on 03/23/2009 2:49:09 PM PDT by joygrace
HOT off the press! The Congressional Budget Office just released the cost estimates for S. 277 Serve America Act.(Senate’s version of HR 1388, Give Act)
CBO estimates S 277 would cost over $6.1 billion dollars over the 2010-2014 period.
Programs funded under National Community Service Act of 1990 (NCSA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA) received appropriations of $1.1 billion for fiscal year 2009, including $200 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
..otherwise known as the PORKULUS/SPENDULUS Bill that passed that NO ONE in Congress read. Just lovely.
Taxpayers would fund international opportunities too. Volunteering abroad and US worker will pay for it. No problem. See next paragraph.
Finally, S. 277 would authorize the appropriation of $10 million a year through 2014 for a "Volunteers for Prosperity" program at USAID. The program would award grants to fund opportunities for volunteering internationally in coordination with eligible organizations.
CBO estimates that implementing programs with specified authorizations would cost $2.6 billion over the 2010-20 14 period, assuming appropriation of the specified amounts for 2010 and adjusting those amounts in subsequent years for anticipated inflation when no specific authorization exists.??
S. 277 includes annual participation goals similar to HR 1388. 250,000 by 2017.
Click source article link for the full 5-page cost estimate.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbo.gov ...
See whose on the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee from Oregon??...we need to TARGET HIM!!!!
The Serve Act, because we aren't serving the feds enough.
Oceania needs us, brothers and sisters.
whose s/b who’s....
The government’s GIVE and Serve acts VS the American People’s BLOAT acts.
Who’s going to win?
The “give” act, because Americans refuse to capitulate.
The ‘give” act, because “taking it away” doesn’t sound nice.
The “give” act because if you don’t we will take it away, your home, your children and your freedom.
(sigh)
Ah, what the heck, a billion here - a billion there.
I bet billions that I could spend billions of ‘not my money’ on socialist garbage too.
I’m not imperssed, as a matter of fact I’m DEpressed.
Q: What would happen if everybody, or enough people just said to heck with it all and decided not to go to work anymore?
I think the idiots in washington need to seriously think about that happening before they spend another dime.
How much debt is too much? And to the less than 1% that we really owe this debt to, you had better stop the idiots.
This is on CSPAN2 right now.
The government is going to win if we don’t learn to speak plainly (and slowly) to the American people. Republicans are afraid of buzzwords like “mandatory” “camps” “uniforms” and leery of comparing that to other dictator’s agendas.
Tell the people what this really is and do it quickly!
I refuse to serve a facist administration that does not serve me.
Screw you Obama, you blue lipped moron.
How many Republicans have you seen out there talking about this?
They’re afraid of being called racists. Spineless toads...
Unfortunately you are absolutely correct.
I'm so sad lately that this president slithers into office and starts just taking the country over and worse - that Congress goes along with it. I never believed that they were all evil until now.
BTW: A tie-in with these bills:
“Obama Volunteer: "We're not looking for a fight, that will come later, when we have an army...”
See this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212285/posts
PS - Please add me to your ping list, joygrace. I want to keep an eye on this one for sure. There are so many bills being introduced and all of them rip at least one part of the Constitution to shreds...
Kay Bailey Hutchinson, so-called Republican who wants to be Governor of Texas, is a co-sponsor of this bill. She is really a good friend of Ted Kennedy. How can she talk against it?
Chrisopher Dodd is very big on people being forced to labor for the government (mandated volunteerism).
Where do we turn for help? They're just ignoring Rush, Sean, Glenn and the rest. These politicians in a political bubble and are no good to America.
Where do we turn?
Oh, man, she is my senator. I wondered why the guy I talked to on the phone today feigned such ignorance about it. That makes me SICK TO MY STOMACH! I knew she wasn’t all that conservative, but this just horrifies me!
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