Heard about H.R. 1388 on the radio today. Supposedly, this bill will make volunteerism “mandatory.” So, when I got home I looked it up. The editorials about it, such as this one from the Canada Free Press, make this bill out to be the next best thing to the creation of the 0bama Brown Shirts & 0bama Youth. So, I went digging for the actual text of the bill. And as is the case with so many bills, the text (which you can read here) is… gibberish.
That’s one of the major problems I have with modern American governance… the bills are so often unreadable nonsense, rather than just-lay-it-out-plain. When you marry that with an administration that has made it plain that it *wants* to enact fascist-sounding programs, and a Congress that engineers things so that they can actually gin up popular support to pass laws that target specific individuals for exhoribitant taxation, and you have Senators actually calling for non-criminal US citizens to commit suicide, I suppose it’s easy to read some pretty dire things in the legalese.
So, does anyone want to muddle through the text of this bill and see if it actually does what the editorial suggests?
The biting winds of change are blowing through ObamaNation. The same “volunteerism” that kept America running since the days of its founding, wiped out with the stroke of a pen, will no longer be volunteerism. It becomes forced labor and like the practice of another era, presses American citizens of all ages and creeds, unknowingly into military service.
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It all started out as AmeriCorps… remember, back when you were supposed to turn in your neighbors in if you heard them saying anything subversive via that glass you were holding up against the wall, and your postman asked to see your papers before giving any mail to you?
Yes, under Compassionate Conservatism, Dubya’s dad came up with flip side of what Jefferson was talking about in The Declaration Of Independence regarding what governments are supposed to do, and gave us “a million points of light”… you know, you are supposed to volunteer without pay to help your nation, because the government doesn’t give a flying fuck about what happens to you when it comes right down to it, and certainly isn’t going to spend dollar one to benefit all of its population, as that would be Commie. 🙂
> It all started out…
As gibberish goes, that whole post was about as unreadable and rambling as the bill in question.