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Lawmakers move to expand service opportunities (AmeriCorps goes from 75K to 250K members)
FindLaw / The Associated Press ^ | March 11, 2009 | Ann Sanner

Posted on 03/11/2009 8:23:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Embracing President Barack Obama's call for national service, lawmakers on Wednesday moved ahead with a plan to expand the country's AmeriCorps program and boost volunteer opportunities for students and seniors.

The House could vote as early as next week on a bill to increase AmeriCorps to 250,000 positions from the current 75,000 and create a new service corps in low-income communities focusing on education, clean energy, health and services for veterans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; americorps; bho2009; bho44; congress; first100days; nationalservice; obama
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This'll be the new Obama Youth, mark my words...
1 posted on 03/11/2009 8:23:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wonder what color their uniforms will be?


2 posted on 03/11/2009 8:24:39 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This worthless program needs to be killed off, ASAP


3 posted on 03/11/2009 8:25:32 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Hitler did that too, didn’t he?

I can’t wait for the new martial music these “yutes” will soon be marching to.


4 posted on 03/11/2009 8:26:01 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: neodad
"Wonder what color their uniforms will be?"

You get to choose from black, brown or red, I would guess.

5 posted on 03/11/2009 8:26:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." Barry Goldwater)
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Focus will be on voter fraud.

Pray for America


6 posted on 03/11/2009 8:28:33 PM PDT by bray (Welcome to the USSA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is AmeriCorps open to non-citizens? (rhetorical question)


7 posted on 03/11/2009 8:29:22 PM PDT by OCC
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To: neodad

Brown.


8 posted on 03/11/2009 8:29:40 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This tactic seems familiar.


9 posted on 03/11/2009 8:31:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob (When do we call Obama "Dear Leader" and learn the new salute?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What the heck ? Do they have 75,000 corp members now ?
Sounds like a make work Brown shirt Neighborhood watch program....... as the Details seem to elude us.....whats the Teleprompter say about this ?
Obambi ratings are dropping, his grandiose plans may be losing the enthusiasm of the faithful hordes.
Would anyone leave the un employment lines to sign up for this ? How about the welfare lines ?
I hear they have openings in the Treasury dept. too ?


10 posted on 03/11/2009 8:34:09 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: neodad
Wonder what color their uniforms will be?

I was just thinking the same thing. I want to know who they are on sight.

11 posted on 03/11/2009 8:34:18 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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They could get my corpse to serve.


12 posted on 03/11/2009 8:34:42 PM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: neodad

They’ll be the color of Acorns.


13 posted on 03/11/2009 8:34:49 PM PDT by arkady_renko
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I want to know if ANY of these so called volunteers will be screened for any criminal activity. Can you imagine a better opportunity for these zero supporters to rob or otherwise take advantage of people, with a uniform to do it with?
14 posted on 03/11/2009 8:34:55 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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Half the kids graduating from college this year with their basket weaving degrees won't be able to find jobs. Guess they can all join the 0bamashirts.
They gonna give out daggers too?
15 posted on 03/11/2009 8:38:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Communists preferred red neck scarves for their youth groups.


16 posted on 03/11/2009 8:42:26 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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Headline: Obama personally creates 175,ooo new jobs.

“Raise High the banner.....”


17 posted on 03/11/2009 8:44:45 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Jungvolk Oath (taken by ten-year-old boys on first entering the Hitler Youth)

“In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.”


18 posted on 03/11/2009 8:53:28 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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Quotes of Adolf Hitler

“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. We are rotten to the marrow. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there any finer ones in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world. This is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will come the creative man, the man-god.”

“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I say calmly, ‘Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community’.”

“...Knowledge would spoil my young people. I prefer that they learn only what they pick up by following their own play instinct. But they must learn self-control. I will have them master the fear of death through the most difficult trials. That is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will grow the stage of the free man, a human being who is the measure and center of the world.”

“The German youth must be slender and supple, fast as a greyhound, tough as leather, and hard as Krupp steel. He must learn to do without, to endure criticism and injustice, to be reliable, discreet, decent, and loyal.”


19 posted on 03/11/2009 8:54:22 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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As if service opportunities do not exist without big gubment involvement?

“Welfare for community organizers” would be a better name for this program.


20 posted on 03/11/2009 9:01:29 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
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