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Federalizing "Volunteer" service. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
During his 1988 presidential campaign, George Bush the elder announced his "a thousand points of light" initiative for a "kinder, gentler world." Shortly after becoming president, George Bush declared: "Today I announce a new initiative calling on all levels of government -- both sectors, public and private -- to enlist in a new crusade to bring national service into every corner of America."
In the closing weeks of 1990, Congress passed, and President Bush signed into law, the National and Community Service Act, to set up a system of nationalized, coercive voluntarism.
Commented Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.): "We are authorizing a program of ... new money to set up grants and bureaucracy for voluntarism. My colleagues, have we lost our minds?"
President Clinton took the "national service" idea several steps further, launching the "AmeriCorps" program, in which "volunteers" receive federal remuneration for their work on behalf of government. Now President George W. Bush is calling for increases in the fedgov service programs that his father and Bill Clinton called for, and he is launching his own program as well.
"We want to be a nation that serves goals larger than self," ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) January 26, 2002 700+ words
...Dena Bunis WASHINGTON _ The Peace Corps is getting a new director...confirmed my nomination from President Bush," Vasquez said through a Peace Corps spokeswoman "I look forward to joining the Peace Corps and working with this fine...
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...been targeted by former Peace Corps volunteers _ and a Boston...editorial _ saying that President Bush should reconsider his...mobilize support." Peace Corps spokeswoman Ellen Field...experience to run the Peace Corps," Pickens said...