or else what...
Posted on 03/26/2009 4:04:42 AM PDT by Man50D
Congress appears ready to pass an Obama administration plan that could create mandatory public service requirements for all American youth, fulfilling a campaign promise.
The bill, HR 1388: The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, otherwise known as the "GIVE Act," has already passed the House by a vote of 321-105.
On Tuesday, the Senate voted closure on the motion to proceed by a margin of 74-14 in a move that makes its ultimate passage likely.
The bill, promoted by the Obama administration as a means of encouraging America's youth to participate in voluntary community service, has received little scrutiny from Congress or the public.
Yet, a version of the bill in the House proposes to establish a Congressional Commission on Civil Service tasked with determining whether a mandatory service requirement for all young people in America could be developed and implemented, though it is not clear that provision will survive a conference committee.
Moreover, an amendment to the bill introduced by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., one of the bill's 37 co-sponsors in the House, appears to severely restrict the First Amendment by prohibiting the youth participating in the program from attempting to influence legislation, organize or engage in protests, petitions, boycotts or strikes.
Funds under the bill are designated to be distributed through AmeriCorps, even though AmeriCorps volunteers have a history of being recruited and employed by community programs with an ideological purpose supported by Democratic Party politicians, including Planned Parenthood.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Ah yes...Hitler’s Youth Movement, ‘revisited’
So let me see if I got this straight....the people will be forced to work for free in order to gain their freedom from the government.....sounds like indentured servitude to me, and I do believe that is illegal....
This sounds like Obama’s Slave Brigade.
mandatory=slavery
How many of these kind of laws Zero wants and this out of control congress is passing, will end up at the Supreme Court?
or else what...
Socialist always recruit the children when they take over Country’s. They use them to get information on the adults to hjelpcontrolthe population
I’m all for this!
Consider it payback for all of the mush-filled skulls that voted for the jerk.
Let’s see how they like giving up two or three years of their lives to the state.
We need some hero attorneys to challenge this.
Damnit, I’m ready to spend the next 10 years of my life in college/law school to do this, but it will be too late by then.
“The bill, promoted by the Obama administration as a means of encouraging America’s youth to participate in voluntary community service, has received little scrutiny from Congress or the public.”
When is this going to be covered by the news? Is this just going to slide by under the radar because of the economic news?
the 13th amendment??? what the hell is that????
I’m sending my child to Canada.
This is pure BS! More needs to be made of this.
**Is this just going to slide by under the radar because of the economic news?**
That would seem to be the plan. Rush through as much legislation as fast as they can, while we’re looking the other way. Shovel ready, see?
That mandatory service will turn off the people who can afford to get the hell out of here with their children. There would have been o=no way I would have put my children through this crap. What the hell is Congress thinking?????
It is not work don’t you see. It is voluntary so there is no Constitutional issue!
You bet...this and any number of Fascist/Marxist bills....watch out especially for laws against the 1st and 2nd amendments...
this particular bill directly violates the 13th amendment.
it’s just that pesky “constitution” thingie again...nothing to see here, just move along...
“This is pure BS! More needs to be made of this.”
Fat chance with no independent and free press. The msm is now permanently in bed with the democrats. (We need “unity” dontcha know, none of that nasty “partisanship”.)
IMHO
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