Posted on 04/21/2009 10:48:00 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - People who want to give back to their communities through service will get more opportunities to do so under a bill being signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama.
The $5.7 billion bill triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years, and expands ways for students and seniors to earn money for college through their volunteer work. It aims to foster and fulfill people's desire to make a difference, such as by mentoring children, cleaning up parks or building and weatherizing homes for the poor.
Bolstering voluntary public service programs has been a priority of Obama, who credits his work as a community organizer in his early 20s for giving him direction in life.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
ugh
Ve vill gif you zexy armbands und boots, ja.
Early 20's? Isn't that all he did?
I’ll put “Paid volunteerism” with “jumbo shrimp” and “Congression ethics” in my list of oxymorons.
Here come the brown shirts......
Ummm...ok.
No doubt these programs will cost more to administer and run than what the photo-ops will actually accomplish.
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.
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.
Huh?
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 ...
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/
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.
Fixed.
Julius Streicher and Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the Asspress.
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