Nor does Bill.

Nor does Chelsea, even.

Because they care. Because they’re actually engaged in the process and the issues.

Obama is playing at being president.

Just like his predecessor.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

LMAO at the corpulent cartoon character.

…a couple of note cards…

Yes! With all the billions, trillions, and quadrillions of dollars flying around, no one would fault That 0ne for having some figures and stats on note cards or Post-Its (my preference)—even if the goobermint numbers were lies.

…federally funded community service job[s] increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion.

If I read this right, that’s $5.7 billion/250,000 jobs = $22,800 per year.

That could sway a lot of otherwise unemployed to join the 0′bot 0′Nation…

Or am I way off?

I do NOT know why all the MSM , the Republicans and more of the sane blogs aren’t screaming about this and the HR1444 bill I just posted above that want to build 4 year publice service “academies”.

Yeah, “service academies” is a euphemistic phrase for Indoctrination and Re-education Camp(use)s.

Youth Enhancement Zones?

That’s where you get to read all about That One, gaze upon his holy likeness, and get hooked up to the collective. Resistance is futile.

I think I’m going to be ill.

Youth Enhancement Zones? What is that? I think that is the room where you are harrased or brainwashed until you “volunteer”

I do NOT know why all the MSM , the Republicans and more of the sane blogs aren’t screaming about this and the HR1444 bill I just posted above that want to build 4 year publice service “academies”.

I noticed that the GIVE (Volunteer) Bill passed in the senate. I started reading the bill and got to page 76 out of 310 before I just couldn’t believe what I was reading. Doesn’t anyone in Congress or the media read the bills that are passing fast and furious????????

Using High School Dropouts , disadvantage Hispanic Youth, Juvenial Delinquents to teach PE at elementary schools? These same PE Volunteers mentoring children in before and after school educational programs on how to be a volunteer, the PE volunteers will also be mentoring obese children (sounds like hazzing to me for being fat). Children who do not participate in the volunteer education classes will go to Youth Enhancement Zones? What is that?

Procedures on how scientific studies and experiments are to be followed? Why is that in a volunteer bill?

There is much more that’s just unbelievable.

And truly, when you know what your convictions are and know the issues inside and out, the words come “trippingly off the tongue.” No need to take your own pulse every two syllables.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1444
To establish the Congressional Commission on Civic Service to study methods of improving and promoting volunteerism and national service, and for other purposes.(HELLO WHAT OTHER PURPOSES????)
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:

(1) The social fabric of the United States is stronger if individuals in the United States are committed to protecting and serving our Nation by utilizing national service and volunteerism to overcome our civic challenges.

(2) A more engaged civic society will strengthen the Nation by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences to work on solutions to some of our Nation’s major challenges.

(3) Despite declines in civic health in the past 30 years, national service and volunteerism among the Nation’s youth are increasing, and existing national service and volunteer programs greatly enhance opportunities for youth to engage in civic activity.

(4) In addition to the benefits received by nonprofit organizations and society as a whole, volunteering and national service provide a variety of personal benefits and satisfaction and can lead to new paths of civic engagement, responsibility, and upward mobility.

(b) Specific Topics- In carrying out its general purpose under subsection (a), the Commission shall address and analyze the following specific topics:

(I’M JUST GOING TO PUT A COUPLE )
(4) Whether existing databases are effective in matching community needs to would-be volunteers and service providers.

(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if ALL INDIVIDUALS in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.

(6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable MANDATORY service requirement for ALL able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

(7) The need for a public service academy, a 4-year institution that offers a federally funded undergraduate education with a focus on training future public sector leaders.

… and
(12) Whether current Federal volunteer programs are suited to address the special skills and needs of SENIOR volunteers, and if not, how these programs can be improved such that the Federal government can effectively promote service among the ‘baby boomer’ generation.
…..

BO using a “teleprompter as a linguistic push-up bra”.
Ouch!

Despite these caveats I would rather see us have a “paid” volunteer program that earns the volunteer tuition and book money than have a huge student loan program that weighs the unwitting student with a huge loan burden at the end of his/her studies—a loan burden most of them do not realize will dog them for many of their young adult years. I would think seniors could benefit from Health Savings Account contributions or some other form of “tuition” that is useful to them. But NO WAY EVER should any volunteer program be mandatory. The worst thing in the world is to have a volunteer who is “made” to volunteer.