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COngress Passes Expansion of "Americorpse", uh... "Americorps"
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COngress Passes Expansion of "Americorpse", uh... "Americorps"
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Based on my observations, HR 1388 was a lengthy bill with references to modifications of prior bills, and included language concerned with who could participate in national service. It also allowed for-profit organizations to take advantage of the program provided they created a shell organization, for appearances I suppose... This bill also had lots of details about how people couldn't be political, or interfere with unions, or elections or policies, assumably within participation in the national service.
Here's that troublesome part in the latest HR 1444, which people say was removed from 1388 and placed here:
"(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.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1444/show
By compartmentalizing each insidious portion of the bill/agenda and passing them separately, they're moving this thing forward.
Pep
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How do you guys keep up with this stuff?
That paragraph you posted, Peppermint P, is damn frightening. Not unexpected, though!
I get most of my news through Digg. My network of friends on there can usually spot all the relevant stories. Sometimes Free Talk Live forums are a good place to go as well... any of the Liberty oriented forums are good.
Sites like Opencongress are vital for sorting through what is actually in a bill. That HR 1388 was long and complicated, though!
Everything I've read suggests they will be implementing things through the states, by incentivizing a school to add 'service' activities to the curriculum. One part of the bill specifically said that schools would benefit from the program only if it was mandatory as part of the curriculum, OR that 95% of the students participated (it was vague about what students it was counting, though).
Anyhow, it's all really bad stuff.
Everything I've read suggests they will be implementing things through the states, by incentivizing a school to add 'service' activities to the curriculum. One part of the bill specifically said that schools would benefit from the program only if it was mandatory as part of the curriculum, OR that 95% of the students participated (it was vague about what students it was counting, though).
Oh man, at what age are the children supposed to be enslaved?
This is yet another reason to donate to the Liberty Scholarship Fund ( http://www.lsfund.org )