I don’t think he’s going to go quietly. I just had a truly creepy experience.
I was at a volunteer project when suddenly a group of strangely smiling, somewhat hyper people in their early 30s descended on us. My first thought was that they were Moonies or Hari Krishnas.
But they were worse: it turned out they were a crop of some 30 Americorps volunteers who had been “assigned” to my town and apparently are to be placed in each elementary school classroom. These people are absolute goofballs. They started gushing to us about how “the government” was going to do all these wonderful things and how they had been sent here to “help” us. Then they announced that they had one place left on their “team” and asked a couple of our volunteers if they wanted to “work in the community” and receive a salary for it.
I was stunned. I had no idea these people were fanning out across the country. This is one of the creepiest things I have seen yet. What exactly are they going to do sitting in our elementary school classrooms? Fortunately, I don’t think they can get into our Catholic school (a good argument for sending your kids there).
Even a rather liberal lady I was working with muttered “Hitler Youth” under her breath when they left. We were all very unnerved by this.
Mind saying what locality?
No, I don’t think he is going to go quietly at all either. As long as he sits in that office with those advisors and chief of staff he will wield all the power he possibly can by any means possible and short of nothing.
This genie is out of the bottle and it will not be put back in easily.
January 19, 2001
Look who supports Americorps
Michelle Malkin
Created in 1993, this big-government boondoggle pays young people to “volunteer” in “community service” jobs at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars to taxpayers. The press release doesn’t cite liberal cheerleaders of the program. It cites Republican after Republican, from Arizona Sen. John McCain to Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Missouri Sen. Kit Bond and ex-Ohio Rep. John Kasich, praising Clinton’s monstrous creation. “Although Congressional Republicans immediately and frequently targeted the program for elimination, AmeriCorps’ success in providing service to thousands of communities and opportunities for nearly 200,000 Americans has changed the minds of many opponents,” the White House boasts. (snip)
Other GOP members of the Senate and House who initially opposed the creation and funding of AmeriCorps but now support it include: Utah Sens. Robert Bennett and Orrin Hatch, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine, New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, New York Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, Montana Rep. Rick Hill, Mississippi Rep. Charles Pickering, and Illinois Reps. John Porter and John Shimkus.
Where have all the fiscal conservatives gone? Have these Republicans forgotten the countless examples of AmeriCorps-sponsored projects that paid participants to lobby for left-wing causes? Like the tax-subsidized AmeriCorps volunteers who lobbied against the voter-approved California initiative to put violent criminals in prison for life after a third violent crime. Or the recruits who showed their community spirit by disrupting Republican political events while working for the liberal advocacy group, ACORN. (snip)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2001/01/19/look_who_supports_americorps
I’ve thought of something else that compares to Americorps:
The Red Army was formed after Mao had led his followers into the mountains on the Hunan-Jiangxi border. To start with, the Red Army only numbered 1000 men but by 1928, it stood at 12,000 strong as many peasants came to join Mao. For them, Mao offered a future.
Mao’s tactics were very simple:
“The enemy advances, we retreat.
The enemy camps, we harass.
The enemy tires, we attack.
The enemy retreats, we pursue.”
The Red Army was sent out to help the peasants in Hunan. This help, given free of charge, converted many to the cause of Mao. The Red Army also had to abide by the “Six Principles of the Red Army”.
Put back all doors when you leave a house
Rice-stalk mattresses must all be bundled up again and returned
Be polite. Help people when you can.
Give back everything you borrow, even if it’s only a needle.
Pay for all things broken, even if only a chopstick.
Don’t help yourself or search for things when people are not in their houses.
In time, local communities in Hunan did not see the Red Army as a threat. It was this unexpected treatment that converted many to the Communists. It also lead to a big increase in the number of people who wanted to join the Red Army.
Did they say *what* the government was going to do, specifically?
If this is anything like the Vista folks back in the 70s, they will discredit themselves, quickly. Basically, Vista workers were mostly hippie drug users who were very efficient at transmitting STDs.And very little else. Afterward, it was amazing how many AODA counselors turned out to be former Vista workers. I was told that many were currently in AA, as well.
You should report this both to flag@whitehouse.gov, and to Fox news- get the story started on Fox, so that more peopel are aware of the lengths this administration is goign to indoctrinate our yuoth
Livius, that is truly scary.
MW, hide LH!!
it turned out they were a crop of some 30 Americorps volunteers who had been “assigned” to my town “”
I believe that Americorps members are PAID. They are not ‘volunteers”.
That’s why I send my kid to a Catholic school. I am a lapsed Catholic myself, but I want to keep him as far away from the Government as possible.
These are the people from the community-organizer-in-chief courtesy of ACORN. I see many of them are proudly wearing their ACORN red t-shirts now.