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Civic Service Act
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Subject: HERE IT COMES!
In my left hand I hold health care reform and cap-and-trade
legislation. Pay no attention to my right hand!
The gambit for instituting a nationwide national service requirement
for all citizens is still swirling around Congress in typical stealth
mode.
House Resolution 1444 was introduced by Jim McDermott (D-WA),
Jim Moran (D-VA), Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), back in March, with the intention of
creating a:
"Congressional Commission on Civic Service to study
methods of improving and promoting volunteerism and national
service, and for other purposes."
Don't you just love phrases like, "and for other purposes"?
It's so open-ended that the commission could explore anything and
everything. You fill in the blank.
Calling itself the "Congressional Commission on Civic Service
Act", it states such "findings" by Congress as:
"(1) The social fabric of the United States is stronger if
individuals in the United States are committed to protecting and
serving our Nation by utilizing national service and volunteerism
to overcome our civic challenges.
(2) A more engaged civic society will strengthen the Nation by
bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences
to work on solutions to some of our Nation's major challenges.
(3) Despite declines in civic health in the past 30 years, national
service and volunteerism among the Nation's youth are increasing,
and existing national service and volunteer programs greatly
enhance opportunities for youth to engage in civic activity.
(4) In addition to the benefits received by nonprofit
organizations and society as a whole, volunteering and national
service provide a variety of personal benefits and satisfaction
and can lead to new paths of civic engagement, responsibility,
and upward mobility."
Our "civic health" has been declining for the past 30 years, but
national service is just the ticket to mend our "social fabric".
Does anyone care to know just what these statements actually means?
Apparently, it is self evident to the framers of this resolution and
the rest of us are simply too stupid to comprehend the obvious.
The resolution states that more youth are involved in national service
and "volunteerism". Maybe that is because they are being forced
to do so as a mandatory requirement for graduating from high
school. Just another of the big lies that the government finds so
easy to tell with a straight face.
The commission has as one of its duties, recommending to Congress
how Congress can:
"improve the ability of individuals in the United States
to serve others"
and
"train leaders [...] to better utilize individuals [...]
as they manage human and fiscal resources"
As I have said many times before, the people in Congress see us not as
autonomous individuals , but instead as a "human resource" to be
"managed" by their "trained leaders".
Fight back against this monster before it is too late to act.
[Thanks to Cloud Downey for bringing this resolution
to my attention.]
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