Posted on 02/10/2010 12:06:19 PM PST by pissant
Among the most wasteful of the spending in- creases hidden in President Obama's 2011 budget proposal is his plan to create an army of government-funded community organizers at the shocking price of $1.4 billion. While the economy reels and many taxpayers are looking for ways to trim their personal spending, the president is demanding a whopping 59 percent boost for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its best-known program, AmeriCorps. It's time to pull the plug on both.
The spirit of volunteerism has never been in short supply in America, and there is no need for a federal community service agency to steer efforts better handled in the private sector. Youth who enlist in AmeriCorps receive education grants, living allowances, student-loan repayment, child care and other financial benefits. The average annual cost to taxpayers is $10,752 for each of these so-called volunteers. Doling out more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funds to pay "volunteers" is contrary to the very meaning of the word.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I wonder how many republicans voted for AmerCorps?
And maybe the bunch of thugs, his civilian force, he talked about during the campaign.
what the hell do these people DO???????????????????
Next up....mandatory volunteerism
Is this above and beyond the $7 billion earmarked for ACORN in Stimulus I? The Corpse-man in Chief is going to bankrupt us before the year is out.
'Reparations' by another name...
Communism by another name (Karl Marx: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"... And of course O'Bambi and his minions get to decide who 'needs' what)...
.......the state of Oregon hosts...a job listing for an AmeriCorps “volunteer” to accept an $11,100 living allowance and a $4,725 education award to work full time for a local Planned Parenthood office. The position requires a “commitment to the mission of Planned Parenthood,” which - among other things - is to maximize the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood. Support in the past also has gone to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and various homosexual advocacy groups.....This is the fundamental problem when government gets in the business of deciding which charitable efforts are worth supporting. The inevitable result is that politically correct causes will dominate....
Those aren’t just “politically correct causes”. They are DESTRUCTIVE organizations and activities!!!!
And I wonder if obama pronounces it “Ameri-CORPSE”.
The budget hasn’t been voted on yet. This is just what is in odumbo’s budgt. Congess can and does make changes to a budget before it votes on it.
It then goes back to the Pres.
don’t forget Bush NEVER signed off on fiscal budget 09. In fact odumbo did March 09 . That budget was so huge and spending so out of control that the estimated GDP% as percentage of Debt is 94.3%] In 2008 the GDP% to debt was 69.2.
Plenty. And also voted to fund parallel "public involvement in politics" activities in foreign countries, under the rubric of "exporting democracy." See International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Probably the beginnings of Obummer’s civilian army, and Sharpton was in visiting with Obama recently about jobs for African Americans. “Racist” works both ways.
Plenty. Senate only, looking back just a few years. The list isn't exhaustive by any means. Hatch is big on AmeriCorps.
May 14, 2007
SENATE RESOLUTION 197--HONORING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF AMERICORPS
Ms. MIKULSKI (for herself, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Bayh, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Casey, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Lott, Mr. McCain, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Murkowski, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Obama, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Stevens, and Ms. Stabenow)
May 1, 2008
SENATE RESOLUTION 548--RECOGNIZING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE MEMBERS AND ALUMNI OF AMERICORPS AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AMERICORPS TO THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
Mr. DODD (for himself, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. McCain, Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Snowe, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Obama, Mr. Smith, Mr. Brown, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Casey, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Lieberman)
Lest we forget... 0bama had said school-age children, including college years, were going to be required to “serve their communities” under his administration.
Wealth transfer.
Sounds pretty much like slavery to me.....
The oxymoronic idea is already at force in some public schools. Mandatory volunteer hours to graduate h.s.
To make matters worse, the Obama administration in June fired AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin after he opened an investigation into the use of "volunteers" to do such important public service as washing the car of a friend of the president
“Next up....mandatory volunteerism”
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How did that go now? Freedom is slavery and all that rot.
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