Posted on 03/23/2009 10:21:53 PM PDT by melt
Following overwhelming House passage last week, the Senate tonight voted 74 to 14 on a procedural move that essentially guarantees a major expansion of a national service corps, a cornerstone of volunteerism that dates back to the era of President Kennedy. It’s akin to a call to arms by President Obama, who has harkened back to those early days to demand giving back by those who voted for him.
In fact, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the senior Democrat from Massachusetts whose battle with brain cancer has oft kept him absent from the Senate these days, appeared on the floor to welcomes all around as he cast his approving vote as a co-sponsor.
From President Kennedy’s days to the creation of Americorps by then President Bill Clinton, the notion of public service has become a rallying cry. Tonight’s vote, propelled by President Obama’s urging of an expansion, would mean a growth in such work from 75,000 community service jobs to 250,000.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost of the Senate bill at least would be an outlay for the fiscal year 2010 of $418 million to about $5.7 billion from 2010 through 2014.
It’s an historic vote in the sense that a national service corps, an army dispersed to help with education, health services and the environment, would vastly enlarge the notion of “community organizing,” and allow, as Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, said tonight, for about 7 million people to be engaged in such work.
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Waste of precious resources. Somebody tell these people that modern civilization runs on production. At least, if economic security is what you’re after. If it’s warm family feelings and/or high culture you want, production can’t give it to you. Neither can the state.
Amazing, our first “Black” President, and one of the first things he does is reinstitute slavery.
>> If you continue to fret about it, we’ll recommend this voluntary tranquilizer to ease your anxiety, it’s only 800 mg of Haldol in a cherry flavored syrup. You like cherries, Munz?
Or would you like to see what’s in Room 101?<<
Well comrade I am thinking that it will all be a wonderful daisy chain that will brighten Americas future as the youth sing songs about the fuhrer
I mean Obama and how great he is.
But the cherry syrup may be needed yet, perhaps in injection form though. I prefer a tranquilizer dart you know.
As far as room 101 goes, I am sure to be one of the ones who will visit that encampment .. er .. class as they try to re-educate me.
The only problem is see, I am one of those old fashioned people who would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
See you at camp ....
This is America now, and imposing European communism may not be as easy.
73 posted on 03/24/2009 7:11:00 AM PDT by DBrow
I believe it will be easier. As obama demonstrated during the campaign, all you need to do is keep promising the envious and jealouse that you will steal from their neighbors that worked to earn what they have and give it to yjem and you will have all the support you need. By the time,if they ever do, they discover that they have been screwed they will be behind the wire surrounded by armed guards and it will be too late.
The sorry bastards that inflicted obama on me are finally going to get what they deserve. As for me, I probably will be shot full of holes and left to lay there. But to paraphrase a Roy Clark song, I never kissed obama’s ass.
It’s 1933 all over again! I’ve been trying to warn people.
Well, if civil war happens, I hope it happens before I get too old to play a acvtive part in it.
What has happened to Hatch and why is he a part of this? IT isn’t the same as sending people off on Mormon Missions where they still have a choice if they want to do this or not when they become adults.
Did you get that from the JPFO?
See you at camp? Nah. Not us.
Maybe in the blue cities, but in the Red Zone it will be harder. And the cities are so dependent on the red zone.
Right, 444F, no surprise whatsoever that Warren is excited about this. A key focus of the emergent church movement, of which Warren is widely considered a leader despite his lame denials, is that of social justice and community service. Of course Warren finds an expanded Americorps a snuggly fit.
The value of “Community” over Scripture. But where is the Gospel Mr. Warren?
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