Michelle Malkin » GIVE/SERVE Act updates; Senate version passes, 79-19

GIVE/SERVE Act updates; Senate version passes, 79-19

By Michelle Malkin • March 26, 2009 05:06 PM

I’m scheduled to talk about the GIVE/SERVE Act on Glenn Beck’s show at around 5:30pm Eastern. (Update: Watch the vid at Hot Air.)

Quin Hilyer takes a closer look at the creepy national service expansion plans in today’s DC Examiner, and posts an update on one troublesome provision:

Between being first officially “reported” to the House and being voted on by the full House, bill managers stripped one whole section of the measure that created a Congressional Commission on Civil Service, thus removing the section that contained the language cited above concerning “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” and a possible requirement for “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service. The section could be restored during the Senate-House conference committee meeting. A new, separate bill containing that language has since been introduced in the House.

Alas, every last cent of the $6 billion in boondoggle spending is still there.

Also this afternoon: An amendment from Sen. Vitter to block ACORN from receiving GIVE/SERVE funds was tabled and ultimately blocked, with an early vote count of 53-43.

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Sigh: Senate passes the $6 billion boondoggle, 79-19.

Posted in: ACORN Watch, National Service

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#661090

On March 27th, 2009 at 11:20 am, guitarguy said:

Obama is Mao.

And we know what Mao did to his people…..

All of O’s new ‘volunteers’ will, at some point, want to stand out from the ‘non-volunteers’.
They’ll want a t-shirt…..jacket…..or perhaps, a uniform.

And, at some point, they’ll decide to put all of O’s talking points and phrases into a handy little manual…..or book.

And soon we’ll see O’s huge, smiling face plastered all over our nation. Huge billboards and placards will have his wise, all-knowing countenance for us to gaze upon.
For hope.
For inspiration.

ObaMao
#661103

On March 27th, 2009 at 11:38 am, HappyMom said:

I’ve called Sen Timmy-Geithner-is-Uniquely-Qualified Hatch’s offce twice this week. The answers I got:

1. The language is different in the senate version–there is no “mandatory service” cuz that would be wrong!

2. The bill is geared toward providing “service learning” opportunities ONLY for disadvatanged kids because it’s been proven to really help them progress.

riiiiiight.

When I said it bothered me that the feds were trying to force “service” in schools (already here in Utah as part of high school graduation requirements), the Hatchling said, I kid you not, “oh, it’s up to the states to decide that because the federal government doesn’t have, er, control . . . uh . . .”

“Yet?” I asked politely.

She laughed nervously, I laughed right along with her, then I hung up.

I’m not sure what they’re smokin’ in DC and I too am completely blown away that Hatch would sign up for any of this, much less instigate it.

But after talking to his office, I’m convinced they’re convinced it isn’t a big deal. I think they–at least the staffer I talked to–honestly believes it will benefit disadvantaged youth.

I think it’s a HUGE deal and I agree, it is a slippery slope. The only answers I got to concerns about it morphing into all kinds of mandatory things, who would decide what’s “acceptable” servitude acts, or how to opt out (because my independing-thinking, homeschooled kids would be forced into this when they pry them from my dead, cold fingers) were breathless reassurances that “that would never happen. Service should always be voluntary and government would never, ever force it!”

I didn’t even bother asking how she could be so naive.

It was a lost cause.
#661315

On March 27th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, Random63 said:

Congress is a lost cause. It’s now up to our state legislators to enforce the Constitution and for the people too. I cannot and will not support the Federal Government anymore. They do not have my consent to govern.
#661488

On March 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

On March 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am, lgm said:

Jet Jaguar said (#1):

We can call it the “Obama Youth”

It’s a free country. How about calling the unified military under the joint Chiefs the Wehrmacht? Not everyone’s a nazi.

The way it’s going? Yes. …and we can start calling the CIC “Der Fuehrer”. Isn’t that what you want, lgm?
#662445

On March 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am, Mach1Duck said:

This whole experience has been the greatest thing since sliced bread. At least voting America is showing an acute interest in our political system. So now is the time to get involved, join a local party, canvas, contribute. It is time we, the voters, took the government back, starting at the local level, followed by the state and federal. In my opinion, GIVE/SERVE and ACORN will be the best thing to happen to this administration, it will destroy all confidence in it.