Posted on 03/29/2009 1:54:17 AM PDT by Navydog
With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion. Lurking behind the feel-good rhetoric spouted by the measure’s advocates is a bill that on closer inspection reveals multiple provisions that together create a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism. The House passed the measure overwhelmingly, while only 14 senators had the sense and courage to vote against it on a key procedural motion. Every legislator who either voted for this bill or didn’t vote at all has some serious explaining to do.
It’s not that simple, check out the regulations they will
be operating under.
info or link please.
How?
A lot of people want to get involved.
Tell us how.
But an even better word to describe it is fascist.
Yep.
I clicked on that link and was flabbergasted at the prices. The author should come out with a new edition. I bought mine for about $20 years ago.
One of the regulations involves religion: no bibles
allowed, no religious services allowed.
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