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<b>Obama urges citizens to undertake national service</b>
Associated Press ^ | 4/21/09 | Ann Sanner, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 04/21/2009 8:23:51 PM PDT by KLT

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.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; americorps; bhofascism; democrats; education; fascism; giveact; hr1388; labor; nationalservice; obama; obamapowergrab; organizingamerica; s277; socialism
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This is outrageous...What's next? Suspending our Military?
1 posted on 04/21/2009 8:23:51 PM PDT by KLT
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To: KLT

Good God, does this charlatan always talk in metahpors? I don’t know if I can handle listening to his garbage for the next few years............


2 posted on 04/21/2009 8:25:07 PM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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To: All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2229885/posts?page=164#164

President Obama is always looking for “change” you can believe in.
www.whitehouse.gov/change/

There are so many ways to serve, apparently.
www.serve.gov/

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OPINION:

I think the T-Parties are a great way for change.

Supporting our military who are serving to protect
us is a great way to serve.

Electing candidates to office (from local to the presidency)
who are truly patriotic Americans and pro-America
is obviously ... priceless.

164 posted on April 21, 2009 3:19:41 PM PDT by Cindy


3 posted on 04/21/2009 8:26:05 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: KLT
Nothing like wasting more tax payers dollars.

Why not let the PRIVATE SECTOR hire these folks?

Why MUST the government, TAX ME to pay lazy idiots in this coerced volunteerism?

4 posted on 04/21/2009 8:26:09 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Anti-Kenyan

I can’t. I can’t even listen to snippets of his creepy voice on Laura, or Rush or Glenn or Sean or TV news. Period.


5 posted on 04/21/2009 8:26:34 PM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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To: KLT

I have been a volunteer in our community for years, helping with church bake sales, helping feed the homeless, Christmas gifts for poor children, putting on events and such. What more does he want?


6 posted on 04/21/2009 8:26:47 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: KLT
Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago. p>Nothing "former" about it. He's still a community organizer - giving away other people's money and encouraging government dependency. His "mandated volunteerism" is a typical lib looney government oxymoron.
7 posted on 04/21/2009 8:28:40 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Inyo-Mono

So have the rest of us. We didn’t need a government to tell us what to do or how to behave. We don’t need him telling us now. We do what we want.


8 posted on 04/21/2009 8:29:31 PM PDT by cubreporter (Rush Limbaugh - Truth, honesty and the American Way. Go Rush!!!)
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To: KLT

Hey Obama, why don’t you go suck on a teabag?


9 posted on 04/21/2009 8:30:32 PM PDT by ponygirl
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To: KLT

Hey Obama! “Kiss it!” - Bill Clinton. You wouldn’t know national service if it jumped up and bit you on the ass!


10 posted on 04/21/2009 8:30:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (So Orwell was off by 25 years! So what!)
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To: KLT; sauropod; Liam2007; GodBlessUSA; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; ...

Bump Y’all...Sorry been a while since I posted on here..I’m back...:)


11 posted on 04/21/2009 8:32:30 PM PDT by KLT (A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers GO!)
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To: KLT

Shhhhh....he might be listening. I am sure that it’s in
the “agenda”.

You CAN’T legislate volunteerism! The left would never
understand that....that’s why there are “work camps” in
communistic countries! How altruistic. /sarc


12 posted on 04/21/2009 8:34:43 PM PDT by luvie (Zero is dumb as a rock (dangerously so))
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To: KLT
well, BUMP, "your own self"!!!

WELCOME HOME.

free dixie HUGS,sw

13 posted on 04/21/2009 8:35:32 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: nmh

This government plans on hijacking the money of private citizens of course to fund its own furry-eyed idealistic utopian programs, all because these fools have a “vision”
of the kind of society they want to see that appealed to them long ago when they read about it as impressionable college students.It must be understood that government has no wherewithal without their ability to literally steal the money of people not even born yet, including money not yet earned by those that are living.
Of course , NONE of these programs will do any good except create a class of make-work leeches who have no relationship to any “market” except the artificial non-market created by that magical, deep pockets Sugar Daddy called Barack Obama. I simply can’t believe what we’ve gotten ourselves into with this clown.This dangerous clown.


14 posted on 04/21/2009 8:36:50 PM PDT by supremedoctrine (The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity---Yeats)
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To: Inyo-Mono
What more does he want?

He wants to act as if everything good is a result of his inspiration and 'leadership'. He's "remaking America".

15 posted on 04/21/2009 8:37:51 PM PDT by Will88
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To: KLT
Urges?

This act requires service.
16 posted on 04/21/2009 8:38:17 PM PDT by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Nothing is ever good enough for these socialist pigs..


17 posted on 04/21/2009 8:38:31 PM PDT by KLT (A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers GO!)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Voluntarism could very well soon be a crime.
It will be seen as competing with government controlled
“voluntarism”, which is paid for directly with your money, of course. This is the way they think. All big government devotees are the worst and most demagogic kinds of fools.
It’s been going on for a long long time./
And we finally have a chance to stop it.
Will we, in time?


18 posted on 04/21/2009 8:39:08 PM PDT by supremedoctrine (The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity---Yeats)
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To: stand watie

Thank you stand, it’s good to be back...I missed y’all..been a rough few years..mwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh


19 posted on 04/21/2009 8:40:10 PM PDT by KLT (A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers GO!)
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To: LUV W
The original "GIVE Act" used the word "camp" to describe the "volunteer" work locations. It wasn't voluntary either. It was "mandatory service learning"...involuntary servitude and indoctrination. The original act called for a permanent "cadre" of officials to run the camps. Was Chairman Mao resurrected to write the crap?
20 posted on 04/21/2009 8:40:11 PM PDT by Myrddin
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