• Greatly expand the paid volunteer AmeriCorps program and increase funding for national and community service programs to $6 billion through 2014.
• Establish an education awards program authorizing the Corporation for National and Community Service (referred to throughout the bill as “the Corporation”) to provide grants to programs that have approved national service positions but no AmeriCorps funding.
• Require states to develop comprehensive plans for volunteer and paid service by older adults.
• Direct the Corporation to plan pilot programs, including one to establish a centralized electronic citizen verification system which would allow the Corporation to share employment eligibility information with the Department of Education.

Unfortunately, not enough members of Congress have expressed concern over funding oxymoronic “paid volunteer” programs, especially considering that some of those programs have been audited and judged to be ineffective by the Office of Management and Budget.

In order to qualify for education awards funding, schools would naturally have to meet certain criteria. Here is one example taken verbatim from the bill:

(3) YOUTH ENGAGEMENT ZONE PROGRAM- The term `youth engagement zone program' means a service learning program in which members of an eligible partnership described in paragraph (4) collaborate to provide coordinated school-based or community-based service learning opportunities, to address a specific community challenge, for an increasing percentage of out-of-school youth and secondary school students served by local educational agencies where--
(A) not less than 90 percent of the students participate in service-learning activities as part of the program; or
(B) service-learning is a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.

That raises a couple of interesting questions.  Is “service learning” really concerned with education, or is it really about indoctrination? And, if these programs are supposed to be about volunteerism, then why are some aspects of them “mandatory”?

The U.S. Constitution sets up the federal government to be the servant of the states, not their master. So, the federal government has no business requiring the states to come up with plans for any kind of national service programs!

One can’t help but be a little suspicious of a centralized electronic verification system that ties employment eligibility with the Department of Education. Could this evolve into a situation where individuals would be ineligible to work if they did not perform some national or community service requirement while in school?

The phrase “service-learning” appears throughout this legislation. What starts out as a bill trying to encourage volunteerism is really the thin edge of the wedge that ultimately is headed toward mandating service to the state. It is a cunning and underhanded way to indoctrinate the younger generation into a collectivist mindset, and then channeling their time and effort into projects approved by the state.

For more on this topic, see this article posted on The New American website.
 

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notjam said:

NWO CONTROLLED OPPOSITION (JBS/ALEX JONES/RON PAUL) JESUIT AGENTS ALEX JONES CENSORSHIP OF "KNIGHTS OF MALTA" from his article posts. try to type in "KNIGHTS OF MALTA" on any of his article posts then REFRESH page. WHY DOES he CENSOR THIS? WHAT IS HE HIDING? Eric Phelps EXPOSES ALEX "JESUIT" JONES, ALEX JONES OF MALTA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUMp0OniVI Ron Paul and the JBS are also Vatican/Jesuit/ disinformation agetns (NWO controlled opposition) wake up people http://www.spirituallysmart.com/ron_paul.html

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