Obama urges citizens to undertake national service

AP/Yahoo News ^ | 04/22/2009 | Ann Sanner

[Freedom56v2]

By ANN SANNER, Associated Press Writer Ann Sanner, Associated Press Writer – 6 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.

"It creates opportunities to serve for students, seniors and everyone in between," he said. "And it is just the beginning of a sustained, collaborative and focused effort to involve our greatest resource — our citizens — in the work of remaking this nation."

Joining Obama was Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who has been battling brain cancer. Kennedy championed the legislation with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and the bill was named in honor of the Massachusetts Democrat.

Kennedy told the audience that included former President Bill Clinton, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former first lady Rosalyn Carter that Obama's efforts echoed those of his late brother, President John F. Kennedy.

"Today, another young president has challenged another generation to give back to their nation," Kennedy said, citing his brother's advocacy for the Peace Corps.

The service law expands ways for students and seniors to earn money for college through their volunteer work. It aims to foster and fulfill people's desire to make a difference, such as by mentoring children, cleaning up parks or buildings and weatherizing homes for the poor.

[lonestar]

Paid "volunteers"? Call it WORK and they won't "answer the call."

What a circus of clowns!

[4Speed]

Well certainly we need some Infiltrators to work this Organization.....Track the Administrators who most certainly are gonna join this PAY TO PLAY scheme just getting expanded.
We need some empty nest hosewives to join, some retirees who wanna join....and we can blow the whistle on this un-American organization eventually.

[Radl]

I wonder if my 93 year old mother-in-law will be required to work for the good of our fellow comrades.

[kcvl]

Dear Obama,

K M A !!!

[Freedom56v2]

First of all they are not “giving back” anything. I thought they were getting paid to VOLUNTEER.

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Funny, when people are

1. Paid

2. Mandatory (soon coming to a service program near you—seriously it is in bill to ‘explore’ making it mandatory)

it is NOT VOLUNTARY!!!

[OpusatFR]

It’s another FDR-type WPA program.

Difference is that unlike the Great Depression when people would work at anything to get money, Zero’s prospective volunteers already get paid by different entitlement programs.

*It’s always the same, just the lyrics are different.

[San Jacinto]

An alliance among government-funded ACORN and the government-enabled national unions assisted by the government-funded and managed, politically correct youth service corps, all promoted and protected by a captive national media could be the basis for the propagation of power which Hitler could envy. All we are waiting for, I suppose, is the domestic security apparatus — “equally well funded as our military forces”.

[SteamShovel]

Is it job or is it volunteer work?

We need a list of words and phrases that the left redefines to suit their desires.....

.....marriage=man marries man or woman marries woman

.....volunteering=a government job

.....welfare=family values

.....taxes=investment

.....global cooling=global warming=climate change

.....

[SteamShovel]

.....anti American radicalism = patriotism

[Freedom56v2]

The only careers that his administration seems to value are governmental (for the ruling elite) or unionized :(

[kcvl]

I have been VOLUNTEERING ALL MY LIFE! I don't need some stupid, arrogant, narcissistic former PAID community organizer to tell me what I need to do!

[Seaplaner]

...a $5.7 billion national service bill...

So far, all that is available it the title...

TO SERVE MAN

.

[SteamShovel]

.....Conservatism = Terrorism

[ezcritter]

I would not lift a finger to help obama. We should somehow find out his real life story. I wish only the worst for him.

[SteamShovel]

.....scientific consensus = real science

[MHGinTN]

Kappa Mu Alpha?

[SteamShovel]

.....CO2 = pollution

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Brownshirts are needed.

Sorry, I already joined the Browncoats.

In my heart, I'm still free
They can't take the sky from me.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

If leftists are “so nice”, then why are leftists refusing to even replace Senator Kennedy with another leftist, since Senator Kennedy still has a brain tumor? It’s Massachusetts, and the majority of voters here refuse to vote for anybody with an “R” next to their name, no matter what-be it RINO, elitist, or conservative! If this situation happened anywhere in the U.S. with a Republican (either a RINO, a elitist, or a conservative)instead, then they would usually step down for health reasons or else end up listening non-stop to the worldwide MSM assiduously attack negatively such Republicans for refusing to step down and be replaced!

[Syncro]

...said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.

LOL, and they taut that as a good thing, and it was his only qualification to be president.

Oh My!