Posted on 02/10/2010 6:02:42 PM PST by raptor22
Among the most wasteful of the spending in- creases hidden in President Obama's 2011 budget proposal is his plan to create an army of government-funded community organizers at the shocking price of $1.4 billion. While the economy reels and many taxpayers are looking for ways to trim their personal spending, the president is demanding a whopping 59 percent boost for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its best-known program, AmeriCorps. It's time to pull the plug on both.
The spirit of volunteerism has never been in short supply in America, and there is no need for a federal community service agency to steer efforts better handled in the private sector. Youth who enlist in AmeriCorps receive education grants, living allowances, student-loan repayment, child care and other financial benefits. The average annual cost to taxpayers is $10,752 for each of these so-called volunteers. Doling out more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funds to pay "volunteers" is contrary to the very meaning of the word.
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They soon will be wearing brownshirts...
More Acorn morons.
A volunteer ‘’army’’ to do what exactly? This is America, we don’t have private armies. This bum is really pushing it, he wants a fight and it should be given to him.
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Government money and corruption go hand in hand.
Shut this down, indict, prosecute and imprison.
To borrow from the POTUS (Pronunciator of the U.S.), turn this agency into an Americorpse.
Buying more “voters” dontyanow???
That’s Americorpse.
Yup, that’s him alright. But you’d have to wonder why he’d need to look it up! You’d think treason would come natural to a rat like him. Lord Almighty how I hate Barack Obama!
I gather since Obama took office, the program’s name is now to be pronounced “Ameri-corpse”.
Progressives remain oblivious to such corruption because they breath it as a man breathes air.
So what? It's only taxpayer money. There's plenty more where that came from. /s
Congress should immediately ban the naming of a government funded entity “corporation”.
He has a plan to release felons, mostly black and Hispanic, with drug convictions...since these are ‘victimless’ crimes. These people show ‘entrepreneurial talent’ and will be given jobs in Americorps, leading brown shirted young folk in ‘organizing’ for Obama. Achtung! Heil Obama!
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