Civilian force arises…

The House has come up with the solution to unemployment — make everybody work for the government!    The GIVE Act doesn’t mandate your volunteer service, but this article makes it clear that’s coming.

The key point is that it provides  for determining whether a “mandatory” program should be adopted,  and it obviously already knows the answer since it gos on about uniforms and a public service academy.

I have read  dozens of laws and proclamations from communist and socialist countries over the years,  and there is little difference between them and the GIVE Act.

Americorps is already touting its funding under the recovery act, here.

As I recall, His Oneness promised to expand the paid volunteer program from 75,000 to 250,000.   The House has already passed a bill to do that as well as create additional “service” programs, and Senators Kennedy and Grassley have a similar bill in the Senate.

Activist groups like ACORN end up placing the “volunteers” into their own programs,  which have a lot to do with lobbying for more federal money,  and damned little to do with actually helping people or communities.    It’s also a dandy opportunity to further brainwash the youngsters into believing that the government is the arbiter of doing good.

This is about as dangerous as the economic measures the Obama administration wants to take.    Remember that Obama’s pal, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers,  has been trying to do from the inside of the educational system via propaganda for years that which he failed to do from the outside with violence.

UPDATE:  Even the San Francisco Examiner detects the odor of Big Brother.