Thread: SF Examiner Calls Expanded Americorps 'Authoritarianism'

Examiner Editorial: Expanded Americorps has stench of authoritarianism

Examiner Editorial 3/26/09

With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community-service jobs increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion. Lurking behind the feel-good rhetoric spouted by the measure’s advocates is a bill that upon closer inspection reveals multiple provisions that together create a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism.

The House passed the measure overwhelmingly, while only 14 senators had the sense and courage to vote against it on a key procedural motion. Every legislator who either voted for this bill or didn’t vote at all has some serious explaining to do.

Last summer, then-candidate Barack Obama threw civil liberties to the wind when he proposed “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-fundedâ€

No doubt the National Service advocates and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Advocates will be getting together to offer public funded jobs to illegal alien students with older leftists giving them a radical indoctrination oops to be PC I should have said orientation.

Originally Posted by Richard

No doubt the National Service advocates and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Advocates will be getting together to offer public funded jobs to illegal alien students

But of course!

Keep your eye on ACORN.