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Volcanic McCain Barf Alert: Compulsory "Volunteer" Service via AmeriCorps
Fox News ^ | 1/11/2002 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

Posted on 01/11/2002 9:11:38 AM PST by RooRoobird14

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: KirklandJunction
Oh definitely--LOL!!!!
21 posted on 01/11/2002 10:03:59 AM PST by RooRoobird14
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To: steve50
and puts them in a common environment, where they have no choice Typical commie enviroment ....Brown shirts... Homeland defense= Gestapo= children squeeling on parents and neighbors .. Homeland Defense Drop a Dime on a neighbor Program... God almighty, why doesn't McCain just "not come down for breakfast "!
22 posted on 01/11/2002 10:04:34 AM PST by Marobe
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To: RooRoobird14
McCain should apologize for use of the word "volunteer", as there is nothing of the sort going on in the AmeriCorps program. Volunteers give freely of their own time, and DO NOT receive money for their good works. AmeriCorps is nothing but another federal jobs program, and it is insulting to real volunteers to have these paid workers referred to as volunteers.

Geez, talk about Orwellian twisting of the language.

23 posted on 01/11/2002 10:05:56 AM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: RooRoobird14
My children volunteer voluntarily already - will they be required to volunteer involuntarily also?
24 posted on 01/11/2002 10:11:25 AM PST by 1stMarylandRegiment
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To: KirklandJunction
Those "think tank consultant type pukes " are the ones who are shaping tomorrows laws.
25 posted on 01/11/2002 10:11:37 AM PST by steve50
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To: RooRoobird14
The schools in San Diego attempted compulsory "volunteer" service from the high school students as a requirement for graduation. My son ripped them a new a$$hole in a fairly scathing letter to the editor of the San Diego Union. He cited chapter and verse why it was illegal. The letter sparked serious discussion among members of the faculty and administration at the high school and school district. The requirement was dropped.
26 posted on 01/11/2002 10:17:28 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
Please extend my thanks and admiration to your son, and to yourself for raising such a fine young man.

He is to be commended for such a fine accomplishment.

27 posted on 01/11/2002 10:25:32 AM PST by freeeee
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To: Myrddin
Good for him! Could you post it here, maybe?
28 posted on 01/11/2002 10:36:50 AM PST by monkeywrench
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To: RooRoobird14
It's amazing the power the politicians think they have to make life decisions for the populous. I guess that's why they call it a slippery slope.
29 posted on 01/11/2002 10:38:01 AM PST by mysterio
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To: boomop1
I have personal experience as I had a relative in AmerCorps training, even the name is socialist sounding.

What's your gripe with the name. It was tested in front of focus groups and came a full 2% above the second place pick, The Clinton Jungen.

30 posted on 01/11/2002 11:02:43 AM PST by KarlInOhio
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To: freeeee
Glad you said it, 'forced volunteering' is just another way of saying slavery.
31 posted on 01/11/2002 11:04:00 AM PST by droberts
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To: RooRoobird14
Yah Right! This whole concept is totally insane.
32 posted on 01/11/2002 11:06:07 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Frohickey
We have enough professionals right now we do not need conscription.
33 posted on 01/11/2002 11:23:22 AM PST by weikel
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To: RooRoobird14
And I bet he agrees with Mark Shields that we should reinstate the draft. <- click on these 3 leftist links at left.
34 posted on 01/11/2002 12:18:43 PM PST by Rockinfreakapotamus
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To: RooRoobird14
Some state representative tried to require that you have to do x amount of hours of community service to graduate college. That proposal was not well recieved on campuses. I do plenty of volunteer work for my student organizations, and I do not need someone else to tell me that I have to do more.
35 posted on 01/11/2002 1:41:03 PM PST by jf55510
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To: RooRoobird14
McCain's been gettin' into the stash again. Somebody bust his bong, will ya??
36 posted on 01/11/2002 1:44:03 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: KirklandJunction
"Cool your jets folks. Both Bayh and McCain offices point out that they DID NOT say mandatory. Fox News found some think-tank consultant puke who said it might be maybe kinda' sorta' something to consider, maybe, sometime."

OK, so let's summarize:

"An incredibly stupid, expensive, wholly wasteful, un-Constitutional, politically-correct, mandatory welfare-program-in-drag..."

OR

"An incredibly stupid, expensive, wholly wasteful, un-Constitutional, politically-correct, voluntary welfare-program-in-drag..."

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....................nope. Little difference to these eyes.

37 posted on 01/11/2002 1:49:22 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: weikel
We have enough professionals right now we do not need conscription.

We do? So, how come the border is considered porous, and illegal immigration still occurs?

38 posted on 01/11/2002 1:51:11 PM PST by Frohickey
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To: Frohickey
Because they don't put the military on the border like they should.
39 posted on 01/11/2002 1:55:13 PM PST by weikel
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To: RooRoobird14
If something is made compulsory , then how can it still be called voluntary?..
40 posted on 01/11/2002 2:01:41 PM PST by arly
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