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Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday (Still Spending like there is no tomorrow

April 21, 2009 · 2 Comments

Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college.

Congress passed the bill last month with largely bipartisan support and Obama is seeking $1.1 billion to fund it next year. Some Republicans complain it is too costly and is an unnecessary intrusion by government into something Americans already do eagerly and in great numbers _ helping their neighbors and communities. Read More

I see this as Obama trying to buy votes for 2012 with our own hard earned tax money!

LINKS:

(1) Obama’s Secret Army

(2) He’s Not My President

(3) Earth Day: A Communist Plot?

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  • lukemcgook // April 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM

    As our swinish Congress runs violently down a steep place, here’s some food for thought. via Fernandez at Pajamas Media

  • goodtimepolitics // April 23, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    A warning from the page lukemegook posted above!

    The Coming of the Fourth American Republic
    it would be unwise to treat the issues with anything other than utter sobriety. The nation made a fundamental political transition peacefully on one occasion, and only with appalling bloodshed on another, and it is hard to buy ammunition these days because the dealers’ shelves are bare. So all patriots would be well advised to pick up a copy of Crane Brinton’s classic The Anatomy of Revolution, and figure out how we can achieve the necessary segue to the Fourth Republic without becoming a chapter in the next edition.

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