Posted on 04/21/2009 12:30:37 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
“...increasing the budget....to $1.13-billion in 2010 — up from almost $890-million this year.”
Uuuhhhmmm? I thought the folks in these things were volunteers?
Everyone is to drive off a bridge and leave their companion to drown act!
They recently passed a $787 billion stimulus bill without reading it. I think you give this Congress too much credit.
I hope you are right though.
Well, yes and the also passed a trillion dollar Bank and Wall Street Bail Out.
But that is money and most people do not understand that it is actually their money. However, when it comes to taking your teenage kid and sending him against his will to work on some government do gooder program, they will object.
Like the Germans did?
Should we hold our collective breaths waiting for the two major trash-worthy "news"papers to reveal the amount of expenditure per hired volunteer this boondoggle will cost us taxpaying suckers?Will their reports also hint at the irony of naming this for a drunkard who took away all opportunities for his victim, young Mary Jo?
Regards . . . Penny
There will be a “Volunteer Generation Fund”. Tax bucks to be doled out by the "Office of Social Innovation".
BTW Orin Hatch's name was attached to the original. Wonder what happened? Brain surgery?
yitbos
This Compulsory Volunteer Act is meant to honor Senator Edward Kennedy, who honored America when he put his duty to stay in the Senate representing the good people of Massachusetts over his duty to save the life of a young campaign worker who drowned in his car because he was too drunk to navigate the bridge and plunged into the pond, and then had to go invent a story and pretend he was never there so that his political career would not be over, so he dressed in normal dry clothing and created an alibi but then had to admit he was there after all but concocted some other flimsy stories about where he was headed with her and how he had not been drinking and how he was not going to the beach to try and shtup her but taking her to the ferry which had been long closed by that time.
Anyway, poor Mary Jo Kopechne did not get to live long enough to have her children and grandchildren concerned about her brain tumor. She only lived 7 hours, which was all the pocket of air in the submerged car gave her. Kennedy needed those hours to sleep off his alcohol. Again, we are commemorating a great man with this Act.
Don't count on it. Already, COMMUNEity service is a requirement for graduation in many highschools and colleges. And we know who runs them.
yitbos
Love this one of the young Kenyan lad before he became a Christian.
I will NEVER serve the government. It is there to serve ME.
They'll have brown pants if they try to enslave me!
The Swerve Amerika Act.
McCain is the perfect dupe.
WHich was volunteer, not conscripted, as the son of an Admiral who was the son of an Admiral.
He was not drafted, like our kids (grandkids)will be.
Maybe his tubby loudmouth daughter can shed a fes pounds in boot camp....
The figures are astounding, as is the warped United Nations simpleton language in this puff-piece. It sounds like the sort of copy one would hear over Radio Moscow.
The "Service-Learners" army of Young Pioneers targets young inner-city youths. This is the army of those who Michelle told us Obama would use to "require" your service.
This is the answer of the Democrats to Gand Violence. Charming, isn't it? Those among us least likely to appreciate American Exceptionalism, his Praetorian Guard of Thugs.
His Homeys, Homes. The ones who will become a plague in neighborhoods knocking on doors and taking names, like the Block Leaders the PRC uses to report on second pregnancies and other deviant behaviors.
Party Members, recruited by this alphabet soup of NGO's, each one little more than a auxilliary branch of the Democrat Party itself.
And it will cose only $2.2 million per "volunteer."
This is the legacy of our Educational Orthodoxy of Experimentalism, a phenomenal drop-out rate, violence in the classroom and Gangs.
The recruits will be from among those most likely to join mass movements, as well.
Now the Conservatives have no choice, if we are to survive, than to split apart and attack the Education Establishment, making the central office bureaucrats and seven-figure invisible Chancellors and bloated budgets account for themselves. This is a victory for Obama that can't be easily overcome or dismantled.
The next will be Cap and Trade and soon fast-track "Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
The ingredients of a long Second Civil War are being set in place all around us.
"Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God."
A month ago my son was highly upset over this and I told him it would never happen in America. Now I have to apologize.
yitbos
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