Posted on 03/27/2009 11:15:13 AM PDT by free_us_from_obama
Soon we may see Obama’s Mandatory Volunteerism Plan come to light. Sound oxymoronic doesn’t it? Mandatory Volunteer?
Somehow last week both houses of congress pushed forward an expansion of the Americorps national service plan. If you recall last year, the Obamassiah proposed a civilian national security force that’s “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military.
The legislation included this language: “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” In other words, start the goose stepping when they’re young, and expand the boots on the street. That’s right, Obama wants his own civilian army of young people. Does that ring any historical bells with anyone? How about the guy with the funny moustache?
(Excerpt) Read more at fortwaynenews.com ...
I call it “The New Hitler Youth Act of 2009”.
Brown shirts for everyone.
I downloaded the House version and read it. It is an absolute abomination.
It appears to me that the young people will not be able to practice their religions when they are “serving” the Obamessiah.
Anf there will be uniforms.
Scary stuff.
How much do you get paid in this civilian army that are children will be forced to join between the ages of 18 and 25?
Oh yea, it a volunteer program. I forgot. volunteers don’t get paid.
It sounds like free government employees to take the place of what entrepenurial charities do now....except for that whole security and equal to our military might thingy.
....I won’t have to worry about my mortgage anymore or putting gas in my car......
The families that won’t fight this
will be the families of children too lazy to be effective brown shirts.
No self respecting conservative family would allow the gov’t to take their kids off to indoctrination camps.
Mandatory volunteerism PLUS you lose your 1st Amendment Rights to protest the government. Sedition Act anyone?
I am almost hoping that this happens. I will just laugh and laugh as my moonbat sister’s two boys come home in their Barack Obama uniforms and are marched off to Barack Camp.
Not only your right to petition,
but the right of free exercise of religion as well.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
How far removed are we from this?
I wonder what happens if you’re a conscientious objector. Do you have to join the army?
That was actually put in by a Republican because the Americorp has been used to protest Republican candidates and to protest for welfare projects.
just like the 'volunteers' in AmeriCorps and all the other Corps?
“I downloaded the House version”
Get S 277 the Senate version. Much of the awfulness is gone but it still has “overnight camps, um, campuses” for everyone 18-24 including uniforms.
I tell you, you can’t beat the classics!
I find myself re-reading/referring to that document even more often than the Constitution, these days.
Check out the last line in regard to the baby boomers. We just “thought” we had retired!!
This sounds like Nazi Germany...
EC. 6103. ESTABLISHMENT.
There is established in the legislative branch a commission to be known as the `Congressional Commission on Civic Service’ (in this title referred to as the `Commission’).
SEC. 6104. DUTIES.
(a) General Purpose- The purpose of the Commission is to gather and analyze information in order to make recommendations to Congress to—
(1) improve the ability of individuals in the United States to serve others and, by doing so, to enhance our Nation and the global community;
(2) train leaders in public service organizations to better utilize individuals committed to national service and volunteerism as they manage human and fiscal resources;
(3) identify and offer solutions to the barriers that make it difficult for some individuals in the United States to volunteer or perform national service; and
(4) build on the foundation of service and volunteer opportunities that are currently available.
(b) Specific Topics- In carrying out its general purpose under subsection (a), the Commission shall address and analyze the following specific topics:
(1) The level of understanding about the current Federal, State, and local volunteer programs and opportunities for service among individuals in the United States.
(2) The issues that deter volunteerism and national service, particularly among young people, and how the identified issues can be overcome.
(3) Whether there is an appropriate role for Federal, State, and local governments in overcoming the issues that deter volunteerism and national service and, if appropriate, how to expand the relationships and partnerships between different levels of government in promoting volunteerism and national service.
(4) Whether existing databases are effective in matching community needs to would-be volunteers and service providers.
(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.
(6) 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.
(7) The need for a public service academy, a 4-year institution that offers a federally funded undergraduate education with a focus on training future public sector leaders.
(8) 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.
(9) The effectiveness of establishing a training program on college campuses to recruit and educate college students for national service.
(10) The effect on United States diplomacy and foreign policy interests of expanding service opportunities abroad, such as the Peace Corps, and the degree of need and capacity abroad for an expansion.
(11) The constraints that service providers, nonprofit organizations, and State and local agencies face in utilizing federally funded volunteer programs, and how these constraints can be overcome.
(12) Whether current Federal volunteer programs are suited to address the special skills and needs of senior volunteers, and if not, how these programs can be improved such that the Federal Government can effectively promote service among the `baby boomer’ generation.
Seriously, go read it in its entirety,
it is imminently applicable to today.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
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