After nearly 20 years and billions of taxpayer dollars, AmeriCorps has little to show

WSJ ^ | 6-12-13 | james bovard

[TurboZamboni]

Consider the following recent activities:

• In April, AmeriCorps recruits in Tuscumbia, Mo., released 70 blue balloons outside the county courthouse to draw attention to the plight of abused children.

• In March, Providence, R.I., AmeriCorps members at the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence hosted a hip hop/poetry competition.

• Members of a Nevada AmeriCorps program busy themselves these days by encouraging local residents to drink tap water and watch out for bears ("bear awareness").

• AmeriCorps members in Austin, Texas, hosted a trivia night in April at a local bar called Cheer Up Charlie's to whip up enthusiasm for public service.

Puppet shows that hector children about recycling are a favorite AmeriCorps pastime.

[La Lydia]

Socialism strikes again. WHAT AN ENORMOUS WASTE OF MONEY. Wonder how many bridges and highways we could have rebuilt over the years with those funds.

[Dr. Pritchett]

Went backpacking last weekend after a several year link hiatus and found the trail maintenance was horrible.There’s some healthy work they could contribute...

[ballplayer]

Another Bill Clinton Boondoggle.
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Great Information on this Data Mining,when it began,what it could have Prevented,But Bubba had more important things to do

[glorgau]

It’s “Other People’s Money” so what does it matter?

[nathanbedford]

Here we have described one more example of the taxpayer funding the left.

It isn't just public radio and public television, or the endless, mindless grants to university professors, nor the tax benefits running to left-wing institutions like Ford or Rockefeller, it is federal agency after federal agency both pure government and quasi-government, that shape the culture before every election.

If culture trumps politics, and I think it does, Republicans are permitting Democrats to beat us with our own money.

Incidentally, culture and politics combined will eventually trump the Constitution.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Silver lining is they sound like a group of people far too stupid and lazy to make an effective Brown Shirt Army.