Americans to volunteer

[TexasDevilDog]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college.
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The legislation provides for gradually increasing the size of the Clinton-era AmeriCorps to 250,000 enrollees from its current 75,000.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jauMTmO8OWPIcS2--jaRx8hgm-XgD97N3IB82

So, they current cost for free labor is $76,000 a person, which they never see that much. This has great return on investment all over it. :angryfire:

[fast83]

another 5.7 billion?

this dude needs to be stopped.

[Fox466]

http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/03/hilter-youth.jpg

[stinginstang]

http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/files/2009/03/hilter-youth.jpg


that reminds me - my uncle told me his mother in law was in the hitler youth group as a young girl. - proceed with thread....

[GhostTX]

At least the pledge doesn't swear an oath to the president
http://www.americorps.gov/about/pledge/index.asp

Unlike his website:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pledgeproject

[Denny]

At least the pledge doesn't swear an oath to the president
http://www.americorps.gov/about/pledge/index.asp

Unlike his website:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pledgeproject

If anyone is going to restore America, it will be "We the People" NOT Barak Obama.

[cannonball996]

If anyone is going to restore America, it will be "We the People" NOT Barak Obama.

if we the people are going to restore America, then we the people are going to need college educations. if people can volunteer and do some service for their country for a few years and get their college education payed for, sounds like a good deal for the students and a good deal for the government.

[Denny]

if we the people are going to restore America, then we the people are going to need college educations. if people can volunteer and do some service for their country for a few years and get their college education payed for, sounds like a good deal for the students and a good deal for the government.

It still comes out of MY (the tax payer's) pocket. Please refer to the above pic again.

[TexasDevilDog]

if we the people are going to restore America, then we the people are going to need college educations. if people can volunteer and do some service for their country for a few years and get their college education payed for, sounds like a good deal for the students and a good deal for the government.

$76,000 a person is a good deal? When the volunteers get a $500 vocher. :ugh2:

[JP135]

if we the people are going to restore America, then we the people are going to need college educations. if people can volunteer and do some service for their country for a few years and get their college education payed for, sounds like a good deal for the students and a good deal for the government.

Sweet, sweet irony!

[cannonball996]

so a student volunteers for 4 years works for the government and gets his or her college payed for, thats less then $20K a year. whats wrong with that?

would you rather the government get larger and spend more by actually hiring people to do these jobs, where you would likely spend well over $30K a year per person, plus benefits.

currently the government gives most of the student financial aid away, all you have to do is ask for it. why not get something back for our money?

[Denny]

so a student volunteers for 4 years works for the government and gets his or her college payed for, thats less then $20K a year. whats wrong with that?

would you rather the government get larger and spend more by actually hiring people to do these jobs, where you would likely spend well over $30K a year per person, plus benefits.

currently the government gives most of the student financial aid away, all you have to do is ask for it. why not get something back for our money?

GI Bill > Obama/cannonball996 Bill

[AL P]

We already have this, its called The Army. I'm not sure why we need it twice. Sounds like an emo version of the armed forces.

[BP]

that reminds me - my uncle told me his mother in law was in the hitler youth group as a young girl. - proceed with thread....


Lots of people were, they even held a rally at Madison Square Garden. Times were different and Americans would listen to anyone that told them what they wanted to hear.

[TexasDevilDog]

We already have this, its called The Army. I'm not sure why we need it twice. Sounds like an emo version of the armed forces.

Not everyone can handle the military.

[Denny]

Not everyone can handle the military.

That's what the Air Force is for. ;)

[GhostTX]

Here y'all go...kiddos "reporting" their parents already:

http://theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=1779

[sc281_99-0135]

Here y'all go...kiddos "reporting" their parents already:

http://theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=1779

Too bad she's "a soldier of Obama" she's pretty hot.

http://theobamaforum.com/image.php?u=558&dateline=1233762006


And lol at BergBuilder (builderberg??) (SUPREME OBAMATOLOGIST) What a fucking moron.

[67camino]

if we the people are going to restore America, then we the people are going to need college educations. if people can volunteer and do some service for their country for a few years and get their college education payed for, sounds like a good deal for the students and a good deal for the government.

Congress established the National Service Trust to provide an AmeriCorps Education Award for members who successfully complete service in AmeriCorps. You can use your AmeriCorps Education Award to pay educational expenses at qualified institutions of higher education, for educational training, or to repay qualified student loans. The award - recently renamed the Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards after Eli Segal, one of the pioneers of the national service movement and the first CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service - is $4,725 for a year of full-time service, and is prorated for part-time. You have up to seven years after your term of service has ended to claim the award.

So you get 4,725 a year for each year you "volunteer" to go to their "qualified" institution wow that's a great deal, and a good way to en steel obama's great worldly values.

[bcoop]

Here y'all go...kiddos "reporting" their parents already:

http://theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=1779

Is this some kind of sick joke?

[exlude]

Denny knows what's up.

[exlude]

Here y'all go...kiddos "reporting" their parents already:

http://theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=1779

That's frightening. People willingly giving their parent's names, locations, even photos to some person who does not even declare what he wishes to do. Scary, ignorant, deceiptful...all in one breath.

[Sean88gt]

Fuck Mitch Stewart.

[Sean88gt]

Too bad she's "a soldier of Obama" she's pretty hot.

http://theobamaforum.com/image.php?u=558&dateline=1233762006


And lol at BergBuilder (builderberg??) (SUPREME OBAMATOLOGIST) What a fucking moron.

Dammit. I used to be in love with Jenn Sterger, but can't be anymore. :angryfire:

[forever_frost]

There is a program for the government to pay for your college for service. It's the military. Don't like that? There's the Coast Guard, Reserves and National Guard.

[cannonball996]

it works very similar to the GI bill, so whats wrong with it?

I will give you another example, school districts all over the country are having to fire teachers and administrators, because they can not afford to employ them. so what are the options? raise local taxes. close the schools, or hope someone volunteers.
these incentives make it very attractive for someone to volunteer.

this helps keep taxes down, and government from getting bigger

[sc281_99-0135]

it works very similar to the GI bill, so whats wrong with it?
I will give you another example, school districts all over the country are having to fire teachers and administrators, because they can not afford to employ them. so what are the options? raise local taxes. close the schools, or hope someone volunteers.
these incentives make it very attractive for someone to volunteer.

this helps keep taxes down, and government from getting bigger

For starters, the soldiers who have the GI bill RISKED THEIR LIVES TO EARN IT. All these people have to do is kneel at the messiahs feet.

These school districts you speak of could route some of the money they use for LAPTOPS and ESL classes for the immigrants into paying the teachers what they deserve before I put any more money into the blackhole of public education. Paying the teachers what they deserve will entice more teachers back into teaching.

GOVT waste is to blame for the municipalities budget shortfalls, not a lack of funding.

[tazz007]

Here y'all go...kiddos "reporting" their parents already:

http://theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=1779

This is the left wing that is calling us red neck racists? Holly shit.

Is this just a bad episode of the Twilight Zone? Or just a very bad dream?

[Fox466]

Here y'all go...kiddos "reporting" their parents already:

http://theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=1779



I've got the feeling that this shit's going to get ugly. That is unbelievable.


And Brent, they're for real. I surfed some of those threads a couple months back and those people are twisted, and not in a good way.

[Quick '91 GT]

Damn that forum is up to 41 pages. You would think there are titties in it somewhere. The "Israel Over All" dude is a fucking retard.

[Fobra]

I've got the feeling that this shit's going to get ugly. That is unbelievable.


And Brent, they're for real. I surfed some of those threads a couple months back and those people are twisted, and not in a good way.

I posted that site on a couple other forums and people are saying it's a spoof, like the equivalent to the onion.

[Fox466]

I posted that site on a couple other forums and people are saying it's a spoof, like the equivalent to the onion.


Some of it may be, but I'm not buying. For it to be a spoof a hell of a lot of people would have to be... in a coonspiracy...

[forever_frost]

I posted on there under Frost. So much for trying to be polite and reasonable

[Pokulski-Blatz]

It it just my perspective or does the Obamanaut group/movement resemble domestic terrorism? Smells slightly of kraut as well.