‘Volunteer’ to push the
president’s agenda
By Tom Chambers • 8:04 a.m. April 21, 2009 • 2 Comments • 0 Trackbacks
Tags: budget, obama, stupid laws, volunteer
President Obama, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Sen. Orrin Hatch are going to spend $5.7 billion of taxpayer money to pay “volunteers” working to push the president’s agenda.
Today Obama will sign a bill to triple the size of AmeriCorps, expanding the “volunteer” program from 75,000 brown shirts to 250,000.
It’s already been noted that the program will cost 57 times the amount the president asked his cabinet secretaries to cut from the federal budget.
But check out this little nugget in the AP report:
The legislation provides for gradually increasing the size of AmeriCorps to 250,000 enrollees from its current 75,000. It outlines five broad categories where people can direct their service: helping the poor, improving education, encouraging energy efficiency, strengthening access to health care and assisting veterans (emphasis added).
Education, energy and health care — aren’t those the three legs of the Obama agenda stool? So taxpayers are going to be paying “volunteers” to advance the community-organizer-in-chief’s political agenda?
More from AP:
AmeriCorps has seen a recent surge in applications, according to the government-run Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees the program.
In March, the corporation received 17,038 online AmeriCorps applications, nearly double those received in the previous month and nearly triple the 6,770 received last March.
I suspect that has more to do with folks being out of work than a “surge” in volunteerism.
What’s more, it’s a pittance. For junior high and high school students who give up their summers — when they could be, well, working a real job — they get a measly $500 toward college. $500 for the entire summer? So maybe two or three of their textbooks would be paid for.
I absolutely, positively will not ever peacefully submit to participating in any socialist-run, get-your-mind-right, do-your-fair-share training camp. Nor will I so much as lift a finger to perform whatever “social responsibility” task this administration ultimately cooks up and assigns to me to help me “improve the social fabric”. I already do my part.
I get up every freaking day, long before the welfare bums roll out of bed with their Budweiser breakfast. I go to a job that I’ll never be able to afford to retire from, where I work 12 hours / day just to earn enough money to contribute an enormous amount of taxes to make sure the freeloaders amongst us don’t have to labor. So forgive me if the idea of spending my nights and weekends sweeping up needles from city slums, or pulling weeds in some welfare mom’s garden (outside a house I’m paying for), or picking up the trash her kids just threw in the street doesn’t exactly appeal to me. Sorry, I gave at the office.
In short, they can drag my bony arse kicking & gouging into the bus, and ship me off to some secluded “re-education resort” full of sociologists & community organizers, and even then I’ll resist to my last breath.
Bag ‘em!