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GIVE Act, Hitler Youth, Indoctrination, Obama, Tommorrow Belongs to Me, Volunteers, Young Pioneers
One of the most chilling scenes in the musical Cabaret is the moment when a bunch of youth begin singing the song “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.”
We are one wonderful step closer to bringing this type of youth organization to the United States. One of President Obama’s campaign promises was that he would establish a “volunteer” program for all young people. His fans in the House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs.
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.
Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”
Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency”.
“The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create 175,000 “new service opportunities” under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also create additional “corps” to expand the reach of volunteerism into new sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy conservation,” reports Fox News.
How does a mandatory program count as “volunteerism?” Call it whatever you will, but the fact is, this is government stepping in to “educate” our children even more than they already do in the public schools. Service learning is just a new-speak way of saying “indoctrinating your children to further the leftist agenda.”
They passed this bill while all the anti-AIG hoopla was going on. The bait-and-switch tactics of this administration and Congress are at it again. And it will pass in the Senate unless people with saner heads prevail. Call or write your senators. We don’t need new versions of the Communists’ “Young Pioneers” or the Hitler Youth. Seriously, does America need to see its children looking like this?
Future "Volunteers" of America
Which of those units was designated the “Obama Youth,” “Socialist Stormtroopers,” or “League of the Militant Godless” again? This will be no different than the Peace Corps or Americorps, they will be service institutions. Those who are enrolled in them will get the opportunity to build up their community and gain a sense of ownership in the land they live in. Isn’t that what conservatives advocate, an “ownership society,” with an emphasis on “personal responsibility” This is what is being attempted here. Whatever mandatory provisions are placed in this bill will likely be shot full of loopholes by the time it gets through the Senate. Relax, your eagerness to live oppressed in a fascist state is showing.
Actually, it’s much different. Americorps or Peace Corps are strictly voluntary. Voluntary means that you get to choose to do it. A mandatory service organization, with required training around such ideas as “Energy,” “Education,” etc., as laid out in this bill. is not the same thing at all. In addition, this bill sets the stage for the requirement to be for all youth, something that neither the Peace Corps or Americorps have ever been about. Did you miss the part in the bill where it makes clear that you don’t get the choice to enroll? Mandatory means required. You “get the opportunity,” you must take the opportunity.
Ownership society and personal responsibility are, indeed, hallmarks of not just conservativism, but of our nation. And I agree with both 100%. However, to begin the slippery slope toward requiring these of anyone is just as dangerous as the slippery slope created by the House’s actions in putting retroactive taxes on people they were angry with. Precedent is how the law of this land has always been decided, and once a precedent is set, it is hard to turn back from it. Yes, the Senate may indeed take out some of the more inflammatory language, but it doesn’t change the fact that this requirement is something both President and Mrs. Obama spoke about during the campaign. They believe in a mandatory service requirement for young people.
I believe in giving people the choice to serve. And the majority of young people I know and work with on a regular basis serve in their community through church and school organizations. They feed the poor, help at homeless shelters, get involved in the lives of kids without parents. They do this because they CHOOSE to do it, and therefore they are invested in not the ideas foisted upon them by their government, but by the dictates of their hearts and consciences.
I’m not eager to live in a fascist state, but I can spot the signs of complicity that turn a free society into one very quickly. I will relax when this Congress and administration stop looking for ways to continually put the hand of government into every facet of our daily lives.
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