From: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-548
Graphic image of votes on H.R. 1388
Posted on 03/24/2009 5:08:11 AM PDT by AJMCQ
Edited on 03/24/2009 11:07:50 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.
Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”
Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency”.
“The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create 175,000 “new service opportunities” under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also create additional “corps” to expand the reach of volunteerism into new sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy conservation,” reports Fox News.
The Senate is also considering a similar piece of legislation known as the “Serve America Act”, which also includes language about “Youth Engagement Zones”.
Ooops, I left out a link but they are all over Youtube.
Here is one that is right on message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXBbCn2K7bE&feature=PlayList&p=117C5AAA6AFAE77E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=47
From: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-548
Graphic image of votes on H.R. 1388
Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.
Will we resist if those guns are in the hands of our own children!? I think that is the plan.
“my own children” will not be taken by these thugs.
That is an absolute statement of fact.
WILL NOT.
“WILL NOT”
Trust me, I believe you. But I suspect that this is their strategy, or their line of thought.
If they turn our own children on us... we will not turn against our own children.
bttt
The one we used to have, before the damRat party destroyed it?
Ding Ding Ding! Bullseye!
This is the second time in the past few days I've extracted the Republican votes on a horrible bill from the Congressional Record and put them here. (The other one was the 90% tax on bonuses.) Seems like it's much of the same folks in both cases. There is no way the ship is going to be righted in 2010 if close to half the caucus is voting with the RATS.
"Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds."We already have this, it's called "Selective Service".
BTTT
In your post 54, I think it is less a case of Democrats wanting to do nothing and take a free ride than it is their anti-American stance and absolute opposition to anything resembling the military.
One of the reason that most military today are conservatives is the all-volunteer force. Only conservatives honor the obligation to serve their country. For liberals, America is a place to live, but they don’t have to like it and they certainly don’t feel obligated to serve it. This is why I think that his mandatory “Youth Corps” will go over like a lead balloon.
ping
I'd prefer that we don't have to, but at the rate Obamunism is destroying the constitution and liberty... we don't have long before the point of no return.
btt
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