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Can People’s Lobby’s citizen-initiated World Service Corps legislation pass Congress?
Are citizens sometimes ahead of their legislators? Is America’s best resource in difficult times the character, skill, and initiative of its people? Then one of the best answers to the increasingly dangerous problems confronting us today is in introducing and passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals in Congress.
Are you among those confused and disillusioned with today’s handling of critical world and domestic issues? Then act on these words:
This country runs on laws. If you want to change the country, write its laws.”
People's Lobby’s founder Ed Koupal drummed those words into his fifty volunteer Steering Board members, who trained people throughout California and the nation to pass grassroots initiatives and make good law.
Today, citizens from the left to the right and deep into the middle rail about the need to change the country. Pick a policy from the Iraq War to education, environment, trade, religion, military service, etc. and you hear Americans clamoring for change.
Where is the healthy, fresh vision for today and tomorrow?
The vision will come alive when we create a mission with an army of volunteers that eases our soldiers’ burdens. That comes from passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps Congressional proposals into law. Got to http://www.worldservicecorps.us and decide if this great idea doesn’t build a safer, saner world.
If the World Service Corps proposals were passed into law this year, the World Service Corps would ramp up so that six years from now one million Americans, aged 18 through 60+, would have their choice of voluntarily serving, at home or abroad, in their choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, and other similar organizations.
For completing two years of service, World Service Corps members would receive two years of community college plus two years of state college tuition, the equivalent pay down of educational loans, dedicate that amount to tuition costs of a relative, or place that amount in an IRA or Medical Savings Account.
Fed Chair Allan Greenspan attributes our economic resiliency to the educations we planted through the 1944-51 GI Bill of Rights. To combat economic competition, let’s expand educational opportunities to those who peacefully and productively earn it making the world a safer, better place.
A million Americans serving through the World Service Corps:
• Reduces the likelihood of future Iraq’s and Vietnams.
• Erases the growing Ugly American image.
• Undercuts the recruiting of extremists.
• Raises America and the world’s political IQ, by working in America and the world’s classrooms of needs.
• Involves us in appropriate technology projects that lighten our environmental footprints.
• Builds understanding for fairly trading in today’s global village.
• Gives meaning to religious phrases, by working like Christ among the needy and hurting.
• Provides Yanks with the patriotic teams, on which we love playing.
• Allows can-do Americans, who know the routine well, the opportunity to build the neighbor’s barn, not knock it down.
The world improves faster when America leads the way with actions, not just words. The World Service Corps sends Americans on a mission, without the missiles. By having a million World Service Corps members wage a cost effective war on poverty, ignorance, extremism, and misunderstanding, life becomes less costly for tomorrow’s soldiers.
For politicians to implement this healthy 21st century World Service Corps mission, tens of thousands must sign the on-line petition at http://www.worldservicecorps.us and call and write ALL elected reps --pushing them to encourage, introduce, and pass the World Service Corps legislation.
Get involved in initiating good law. Help make tomorrow safer, smarter, and better. Sign the on-line petition and read the “How to help” link at http://www.worldservicecorps.us.
Thanks… for pushing Congress to pass legislation to give a million Americans a mission to build a healthier, safer world.
Are citizens sometimes ahead of their legislators? Is America’s best resource in difficult times the character, skill, and initiative of its people? Then one of the best answers to the increasingly dangerous problems confronting us today is in introducing and passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals in Congress.
This country runs on laws. If you want to change the country, write its laws.”
People's Lobby’s founder Ed Koupal drummed those words into his fifty volunteer Steering Board members, who trained people throughout California and the nation to pass grassroots initiatives and make good law.
Today, citizens from the left to the right and deep into the middle rail about the need to change the country. Pick a policy from the Iraq War to education, environment, trade, religion, military service, etc. and you hear Americans clamoring for change.
Where is the healthy, fresh vision for today and tomorrow?
The vision will come alive when we create a mission with an army of volunteers that eases our soldiers’ burdens. That comes from passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps Congressional proposals into law. Got to http://www.worldservicecorps.us and decide if this great idea doesn’t build a safer, saner world.
If the World Service Corps proposals were passed into law this year, the World Service Corps would ramp up so that six years from now one million Americans, aged 18 through 60+, would have their choice of voluntarily serving, at home or abroad, in their choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, and other similar organizations.
For completing two years of service, World Service Corps members would receive two years of community college plus two years of state college tuition, the equivalent pay down of educational loans, dedicate that amount to tuition costs of a relative, or place that amount in an IRA or Medical Savings Account.
Fed Chair Allan Greenspan attributes our economic resiliency to the educations we planted through the 1944-51 GI Bill of Rights. To combat economic competition, let’s expand educational opportunities to those who peacefully and productively earn it making the world a safer, better place.
A million Americans serving through the World Service Corps:
• Reduces the likelihood of future Iraq’s and Vietnams.
• Erases the growing Ugly American image.
• Undercuts the recruiting of extremists.
• Raises America and the world’s political IQ, by working in America and the world’s classrooms of needs.
• Involves us in appropriate technology projects that lighten our environmental footprints.
• Builds understanding for fairly trading in today’s global village.
• Gives meaning to religious phrases, by working like Christ among the needy and hurting.
• Provides Yanks with the patriotic teams, on which we love playing.
• Allows can-do Americans, who know the routine well, the opportunity to build the neighbor’s barn, not knock it down.
The world improves faster when America leads the way with actions, not just words. The World Service Corps sends Americans on a mission, without the missiles. By having a million World Service Corps members wage a cost effective war on poverty, ignorance, extremism, and misunderstanding, life becomes less costly for tomorrow’s soldiers.
For politicians to implement this healthy 21st century World Service Corps mission, tens of thousands must sign the on-line petition at http://www.worldservicecorps.us and call and write ALL elected reps --pushing them to encourage, introduce, and pass the World Service Corps legislation.
Get involved in initiating good law. Help make tomorrow safer, smarter, and better. Sign the on-line petition and read the “How to help” link at http://www.worldservicecorps.us.
Thanks… for pushing Congress to pass legislation to give a million Americans a mission to build a healthier, safer world.
Are citizens sometimes ahead of their legislators? Is America’s best resource in difficult times the character, skill, and initiative of its people? Then one of the best answers to the increasingly dangerous problems confronting us today is in introducing and passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals in Congress.
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http://www.worldservicecorps.us
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Sorry, Dwayne Hunn, but that's the sad truth. I do understand and appreciate your intentions, but you can't go into this all starry-eyed. This stuff has a very sullied history.
Furthermore, American do-goodism a la "oh, these poor lost puppies -- we need to make them more like US, the Perfect People!" has been an unqualified global catastrophe. The Green Revolution is the only example anyone needs. The few remaining pockets of the world that haven't already been wrecked by this sort of thing mostly just want to be left alone. They've seen the damage; they know the pitch is a crock. As for the places we've already wrecked, they're desparate, they'll take help from anyone. Okay so help them, but don't spin it as heroism! Pennance is more like it. You go around pushing heroism and virtue then right away you're botching it because the American concept of these things is a twisted fatuous mess and that's what you're plugging into. Graham Greene knew.
Clue: if you're not willing to learn their language, but expect them to know yours, then right away stepping off the plane you're fucking them, attacking their culture in the deepest way.
If you can get volunteers to overcome the language barrier on their end, and make sure they aren't arrogant TV-educated zombie ideologues, maybe you could do more good than harm, but then right there you've limited yourself to like two people.
Another thing: at this moment in history, looking at what's ahead, I don't think it's appropriate to go into "impoverished" places to proselytize for the wonders of Western technology and largesse. The world isn't heading toward a universal American la-la land, and nor should it; our expectations have become insane. The emerging universal condition is a lot more like theirs. They're the wise ones. Accordingly, we need to stop strutting around like tom turkeys and just shut the fuck up and humbly LEARN from these people. For example, rather than introducing them to our ridiculous concept of 'basic housing,' we should carefully study how they improvise shelter out of pop cans stuck together with dogshit and cook a dinner for four using a handful of twigs. These tricks are soon going to be all the rage back here in the states.
So instead of trying to sell the world another "See! We Americans aren't so bad!" snow job, Mr. Hunn, you should start looking at them askance yourself and screening volunteers accordingly, i.e. for quality instead of quantity. You'll do way more REAL good that way