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03-27-2009, 02:54 AM #1
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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.
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03-27-2009, 06:38 AM #2
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.
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03-27-2009, 10:38 AM #3Originally Posted by Richard
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03-28-2009, 03:39 AM #4
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