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Obama urges citizens to undertake national service
AP/Yahoo News ^ | 04/22/2009 | Ann Sanner

Posted on 04/21/2009 3:46:32 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americorp; communistbs; education; nationalservice; service
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To: bushwon
Paid "volunteers"? Call it WORK and they won't "answer the call."

What a circus of clowns!

21 posted on 04/21/2009 3:59:37 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: bushwon

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.


22 posted on 04/21/2009 4:01:29 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: rightwingextremist1776

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


23 posted on 04/21/2009 4:01:50 PM PDT by Radl (rtr)
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To: bushwon
Dear Obama,

K M A !!!

24 posted on 04/21/2009 4:02:00 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: freeangel

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


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!!!


25 posted on 04/21/2009 4:03:45 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Wonder if our founding fathers would even recognize the USA?!)
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To: bushwon

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.


26 posted on 04/21/2009 4:03:45 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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To: partyright
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”.
27 posted on 04/21/2009 4:04:49 PM PDT by San Jacinto (gorebull warming -- the Socialists' Shortcut.)
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To: paul51
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

.....

28 posted on 04/21/2009 4:05:03 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: SteamShovel

.....anti American radicalism = patriotism


29 posted on 04/21/2009 4:05:50 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Tublecane

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


30 posted on 04/21/2009 4:05:50 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Wonder if our founding fathers would even recognize the USA?!)
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To: OpusatFR
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!
31 posted on 04/21/2009 4:06:03 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: bushwon
...a $5.7 billion national service bill...

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

TO SERVE MAN

.

32 posted on 04/21/2009 4:06:25 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: SteamShovel

.....Conservatism = Terrorism


33 posted on 04/21/2009 4:06:26 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: bushwon
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.
34 posted on 04/21/2009 4:06:44 PM PDT by ezcritter
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To: SteamShovel

.....scientific consensus = real science


35 posted on 04/21/2009 4:07:29 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: kcvl

Kappa Mu Alpha?


36 posted on 04/21/2009 4:07:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: SteamShovel

.....CO2 = pollution


37 posted on 04/21/2009 4:08:14 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Radl
Brownshirts are needed.

Sorry, I already joined the Browncoats.

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

38 posted on 04/21/2009 4:09:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

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!


39 posted on 04/21/2009 4:09:45 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: bushwon
...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!

40 posted on 04/21/2009 4:10:45 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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