I don’t know much besides what I’ve seen on Fox or Glenn Beck. Its my understanding they are a govt funded community organizer group pushing a liberal agenda. Not much different than Acorn or SEIU.
I feel for ya on the grass height thing. It can be tough to fight those because nobody except the victim cares until its their turn.
Let them come in and cut everything over 8 inches off. Sounds like a good way to have them pay for new landscaping. They’ll probably bring a sheriff and charge you for the work to cut everything.
My grass has never been that high. Some unfindable neighbor gets upset when the tall things like cattails and Queen Anne’s Lace start to appear. Occifer Fife has averred over the last three years that “your neighbors have even offered to HELP you” (gee, why haven’t I been approached in all this time, save by one guy who wants to sell me his lawn care services).
I’d like to plant the whole bloomin’ yard as a prairie.
AmeriCorps was started by President Clinton in 1993 to hire a legion of people to perform federally designated good deeds. In Mississippi, AmeriCorps members went door to door to recruit people for food stamps. In Buffalo, New York, AmeriCorps members helped run a program that gave children $5 for each toy gun they brought in. In Southern California, AmeriCorps members busied themselves foisting unreliable, ultra-low-flush toilets on poor people. In San Diego, AmeriCorps recruits carried out an undergarment drive to collect used bras and pantyhose for a local women’s center.
At the time Bush took office, many conservatives viewed AmeriCorps as incorrigible and demanded its abolition. Bush was far more interested in politically exploiting the program to showcase his own benevolence.
For their 1,700 hours of service, AmeriCorps members receive roughly $16,000 a year in cash and benefits, including a $4,725 education award that can be used for college costs or paying off college loans. Many AmeriCorps members are unskilled and earn more on the federal payroll than they would in private employment.
Bush hails AmeriCorps members, despite their paychecks, as “volunteers.” The agency refers to its recruits as “stipended volunteers.” The political exploitation of the volunteer label epitomizes the false piety that has always seeped from AmeriCorps.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0709c.asp