Posted on 11/17/2012 4:51:38 AM PST by upbeat5
It Makes Sense Blog October 7, 2012. Vicksburg. The federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the Hitler Youth of 1930’s Germany. Regardless of their name, the Dept of Homeland Security has just graduated its first class of 231 Homeland Youth. Kids, aged 18-24 and recruited from the President’s AmeriCorp volunteers, they represent the first wave of DHS’s youth corps, designed specifically to create a full time, paid, standing army of FEMA Youth across the country. On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. While the idea of having a volunteer force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural disasters sounds great, the details and timing of this new government army is somewhat curious, if not disturbing.
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Hang in there you are not alone....we have a grandson with autisum...these children are remarkable...I am amazed everytime I visit my grandson at what he has accomplished since my last visit....will keep you in my prayers...
According to the photo up thread the little bastards don't look bullet proof.
Mark
I never listen to his show, but Thursday night I did. I couldn’t turn it off. I didn’t know whether to laugh to be terrified, but I couldn’t turn it off.
Good/correct point...
In our time, there is no need for a new organization modeled on the "Hitler Youth Corps".
We have a far more effective one already in existence: The government schools.
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