Posted on 04/21/2009 12:30:51 PM PDT by Scanian
President Obama is poised to sign the "national service" bill. This will more than triple the size of Bill Clinton's creation, AmeriCorps, from 75,000 to 250,000 enrollees, after already being expanded by President Bush.
The AP reports that the bill passed Congress with broad bipartisan support. The bill was co-sponsored and championed by Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
Categories of service include anti-poverty, education, energy and environment, health care and veterans' assistance. For those keeping track, these priorities dovetail nicely with the Communist Party USA's platform as I have previously tabulated.
1.5 Increase low income energy assistance, ... 2.1 Enact massive public works. 2.2 Make existing buildings energy efficient. 2.5 Environmental cleanup, ... 2.8 national health care. 2.9 Public education from pre-school through higher and technical. 4.2 Full care for returning veterans.
Incidentally, minimum wage increases were mandated in both 2007 and 2008. The minimum wage will go up again, to $7.25/hr, this summer. (In an unrelated development, I'm sure, the unemployment rate for teenagers currently stands at 21.7%.)
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2.1 Enact massive public works.
Like Tank traps etc.
I have long advocated that buildings built with government funding or assistance, like fire stations, police stations etc. should be of a hardend concrete construction, with good
large berms and clear fields of fire. Of course now that we
don’t seem to control our own government any more perhaps that’s not such a good idea.
With unemployment as high as it is with no relief in sight, the ‘progressives’ know what could happen when youths have nothing to do. Where will the Class of 2009 go?
Yeah, probably not; “AmeriCorps, from 75,000 to 250,000 enrollees”, level one indoctrination and screening for, what was Obama’s quote made during a campaign speech? “We no longer can depend on our military, we need a Civilian Defense Corp, just a big and just as strong as our military”. Between Acorn and AmericaCorps, he should be able to raise the numbers. Remains to be seen if they will fight though....
Do they get sharp, brown uniforms with an O-stika armband?
They will form the base of the Obamajugend and will complement BHO’s red shirt ACORN thugs. When you take this into account with the government’s plans to nationalize the financial, automobile, healthcare, and energy industries it is not a pretty sight. No wonder this Marxist thug gets along so well with likes of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Daniel Ortega. He IS one of them. Get a clue America. Wise up! This is what you elected! Why do you think he associated with Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, And Frank Marshall Davis?
Well, they don’t want to imitate the SA TOO much, though I understand a lot of them are homos, just like Rohm and co.
It’s an “Obastica”.
‘and just as well funded’
Yep. The Zero Brownshirts will soon become a reality.
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