From a thread this morning:
New law to ‘manage’ 8 million ‘volunteers’ (Give Act, H.R. 1388)
WorldNetDaily ^ | April 21, 2009 | Bob Unruh
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:20:29 PM by Perseverando
Obama signs huge expansion of youth brigades legislation
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President Obama today signed into law the “GIVE Act,” H.R. 1388, which massively expands the National Service Corporation and allocates to it billions of dollars, and one executive for the program now says it will allow for the “managing” of up to 8 or 9 million people.
WND has reported on plans to create the corps since Obama told a campaign stop in Colorado Springs last year he wants a “Civilian National Security Force” as big and as well-funded as the U.S. military.
The bill includes a “National Service Reserve Corps” whose members have completed a “term of national service,” “training” and “not less than 10 hours of volunteering each year.”
In a conference call with reporters on the plan, Alan Solomont, chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, said the 75,000 current members of the AmericCorps program “leverage” about 2.2 million volunteers, and the total of all such volunteers who are managed through the federal program total about 4 million.
He said the possibility with the expanded authorization and funding means that up to 8 or 9 million could be involved.
“If we triple the size of AmeriCorps from 75,000 members to 250,000 members annually, and if we – if those 75,000 AmeriCorps members are currently engaging 2.2. million volunteers a year, we could triple that to 6.6 million volunteers, 250,000 AmeriCorps members. So I think – you can do the math – I think that was about six or seven million, and then we have another half a million in Senior Corps and another million or so in Learn and Serve America [for children],” he said.
WND reported when Obama delivered his Colorado Springs mandate and a copy of the speech provided online
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That’s a truly frightening prospect.
I do wonder what the Founding Fathers would think of our system today. That nearly 10 million people could be so directly involved in the federal government is mind boggling and downright scary.