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National service bill to get Obama's signature
Associated Press ^ | April 21, 2009 | ANN SANNER

Posted on 04/21/2009 10:48:00 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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1 posted on 04/21/2009 10:48:01 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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ugh


2 posted on 04/21/2009 10:48:46 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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Ve vill gif you zexy armbands und boots, ja.


3 posted on 04/21/2009 10:50:10 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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who credits his work as a community organizer in his early 20s for giving him direction in life.

Early 20's? Isn't that all he did?

4 posted on 04/21/2009 10:50:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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I’ll put “Paid volunteerism” with “jumbo shrimp” and “Congression ethics” in my list of oxymorons.


5 posted on 04/21/2009 10:51:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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Here come the brown shirts......


6 posted on 04/21/2009 10:51:26 AM PDT by wk4bush2004 (PALIN-BACHMANN, 2012......."GIVE ESTROGEN A CHANCE!!!!")
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"...earn money for volunteer work".

Ummm...ok.

7 posted on 04/21/2009 10:51:58 AM PDT by Wolfie
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No doubt these programs will cost more to administer and run than what the photo-ops will actually accomplish.


8 posted on 04/21/2009 10:52:12 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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Oddly, the article does not mention the camps (um, campuses) located in rural areas where yoot 18-24 will be transported for training while residents of the camp (uh, campus). Nor does it mention that uniforms would be provided for the yoot.

I don’t recall that being taken out of the conference bill that was passed.


9 posted on 04/21/2009 10:52:55 AM PDT by DBrow
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Is this thread this bill? outlawing religion for those who ‘volunteer’? (#7)

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1388/text

SEC. 1304. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.

Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows:

`SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.

`(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:

`(1) Attempting to influence legislation.

`(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.

`(3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing.

`(4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.

`(5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office.

`(6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials.

`(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.


10 posted on 04/21/2009 10:53:17 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
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...and expands ways for students and seniors to earn money for college through their volunteer work

Huh?

11 posted on 04/21/2009 10:54:41 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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building and weatherizing homes for the poor

Why don't the poor ever put in any man hours on these projects to help themselves?

Several of my tenants went to New Orleans to help build homes 3 summers ago. NOT ONE person from New Orleans was on any of the crews.... seriously obnoxious.

And, this senior has zero intentions of volunteering ...

12 posted on 04/21/2009 10:56:00 AM PDT by xtinct ("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
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This report belongs in the trash. There are leigitimate concerns about this bill and the AP knows it Where’s the balance in this report ? Why does the AP feel oblidged to present the Obama Administration hyperbole ... Time to start questioning and trashing stuff like this put out by MSM http://www.theusmat.com/


13 posted on 04/21/2009 10:59:06 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (2010 One year to a new census and congressional redistricting, we need a strong hand in the House)
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14 posted on 04/21/2009 11:01:32 AM PDT by pabianice
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15 posted on 04/21/2009 11:02:29 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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The Bogus One's Brown Shirt Brigade...
16 posted on 04/21/2009 11:02:45 AM PDT by Stayfree ((HELP US EXPOSE THE "REAL" BIRTH CERTIFICATE @ REWARD FOR OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE.COM!))
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Earning money for voluntary work.

By definition wouldn’t that be a job? Unless you are incarcerated, a purchased servant in a muslim country, or grew up on a farm, I don’t know many places that there is involuntary work.


17 posted on 04/21/2009 11:04:08 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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expands ways for students and seniors to earn money for college through their volunteer work

The idiocy of this statement astounds me. It's the liberal word-redefinition game, and the word of the day is "volunteer"! Morons ... they are all morons ...
18 posted on 04/21/2009 11:04:22 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS (non-ObamaZombies only)

Fixed.

19 posted on 04/21/2009 11:05:00 AM PDT by kromike
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Julius Streicher and Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the Asspress.


20 posted on 04/21/2009 11:06:50 AM PDT by Luke21
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