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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. …
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.
factcheck.org 'debunks' this claim here
The act also aims to increase volunteer and public service opportunities, including opportunities for retirees and the Baby Boom generation, and to "support institutions of higher education that engage students in community service activities." It calls for giving students who complete an approved full-time national service job an "educational award having a value equal to the maximum amount of a Federal Pell Grant." AmeriCorps says this would increase the amount its members receive upon completion of service from $4,725 to $5,350, which they can use to pay for school or pay back student loans.
Some Internet postings claim the bill says the government must come up with plans for a “mandatory service requirement for all able young people,” but that phrase is nowhere to be found in either the House-passed bill or the Senate version.
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All of that language is now gone. To be clear, the original bill didn't call for a mandatory public service program, but called for the exploration of whether one could be established. But the entire section on creating a "Congressional Commission on Civic Service" was stripped from the bill.
Originally posted by grover
She's a loon...
Nothing more need be say.
Rep. Michele Bachmann caught the national spotlight recently when she told MSNBC's Chris Mathews that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views."
Although Bachmann's statement may have come as a surprise to people outside her home district in central Minnesota, she has a history of making statements that are inflammatory, controversial, questionably informed and that require further explanation. Until now, the most famous of those was her assertion that there was a plan already in place to partition Iraq and give half of it to Iran. She later said her comments had been "misconstrued" but did not elaborate.
Prompted by a question on the rioting in France and Europe at the time, Bachmann said "not all cultures are equal, not all values are equal," letting it be known that she thought that people of the Muslim faith had an inferior culture to that of the United States and the West.
She held forth on the European unrest, referring to a generation of unassimilated Muslim French youth addicted to cable television, led in her imagination by al Jazeera to wreak havoc.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
I find ti funny how since a politician says it they must be a loon.
Anyays, I pretty much actually agree with Bachmann. Anyone who read HR1388 would be scared ******* about the contents in the bill.
Originally posted by mental modulator
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
I find ti funny how since a politician says it they must be a loon.
Anyays, I pretty much actually agree with Bachmann. Anyone who read HR1388 would be scared ******* about the contents in the bill.
Come on now, the lady is trying to capitalize on fear and outrage
I don't know a single Obama supporter who would support this alleged future, its a nutty claim.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
Originally posted by mental modulator
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
I find ti funny how since a politician says it they must be a loon.
Anyays, I pretty much actually agree with Bachmann. Anyone who read HR1388 would be scared ******* about the contents in the bill.
Come on now, the lady is trying to capitalize on fear and outrage
I don't know a single Obama supporter who would support this alleged future, its a nutty claim.
Okay, I kind of support Obama myself.
I support his actions which I agree with and I disagree vehemently with the ones I disagree with.
Bachmann is pretty much on the spot here and I couldn't agree more. The bill called for adding values of community service into the educational curriculum (whatever that means). They plan to expand the mericorp and they plan to expand all of these other things.
The bill doesn't talk about community service. It's not community service. HR1388 is about national service. Read it for yourself. I hope this bill doesn't go through. People will feel that it's good for them to volunteer and then they'll be like "I didn't sign up for this! What a load of BS!"
Now, regardless of whether she is capitalizing on our fear and outrage, just try to understand the context of what she says and research her claims for yourself.
[edit on 14-4-2009 by Frankidealist35]