While we fret over the Impossible Dream budget proposed by the Dear Leader...
The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.
Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “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.”
Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency”.
“The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create 175,000 “new service opportunities” under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also create additional “corps” to expand the reach of volunteerism into new sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy conservation,” reports Fox News.
Yes, the Act mentions uniforms, (nothing about the color 'brown'--yet) and also has a section which will not likely pass 1st Amendment scrutiny.
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Not my kids.
My bad. I saw the headline on BlogNet and thought it was about Rose Fernandez and her three-year-old Kindergarten plan
And what's wrong with 3K?
MPS already has a 3K program: http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/supt/3_Year_Old.html.
And didn't Obama basically endorse a crib to grave education program as part of his campaign?
Or do liberals prefer only to indoctrinate kids after the risk of potty accidents decreases?
Over my dead body.
Exactly what I was going to say, Neo-Con Tastic. Over. My. Dead. Body.
And by the way: We come from a long line of extremely dedicated volunteers. But Obama is NOT talking about volunteering.
Indeed. Somehow I think one won't get credit for volunteering at a pro-life crisis pregnancy center or at an orthodox church...
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