Here's a question for you: If we can classify this as some sort of military youth brigade, can we therefore conclude that these are also examples of a brigade as they're wearing similar uniforms and doing some sort of physical work? Plus, it's in the name of the USA.
something is wrong when its called 'mandatory voluntary'..not now but we'll be seeing that part of it in 2013...it will be mandatory that all ages 18-42 serve a mandatory time 'volunteering', ages 18-25 have to go to mandatory basic military training and 'volunteering'. this isnt america anymore, were exactly what our founding fathers fought so hard against. hr 1388 is not freedom.
you people are absolutely retarded. this guy obviously took a City Year recruitment ad or something (still pretty weird), cut it with other footage, and made it seem like a paramilitary group. you never even had to leave your chair, because he did all the work for you, filling your head with a specific timeline. THAT, my friends, is propaganda
Heres an idea instead of spending money on all those stupid red jackets lets give it to some starving kids who are hungry.. Who are these idiots trying to fool?
Yes. Let's all do the same thing. Hey, wait a minute... Isn't this a group serving as pawns of a centralized government? Kinda makes me wonder why the video shows people people standing against a overly powerful state. Oh wait, I get it, the "AmeriCorp" are the tanks trying to run that guy representing your liberties over. Makes sense now.
'The City' is a Reference to 'The Empire of the City' - Google it.
"The City' Refers to 3 Autonomous Privately Owned City States... Inner City of London Financial District, Washington DC, & Vatican City. All owned by the Rothschilds Banking Cartels... Google 'Ring of Power - Empire of the City'
I hope these kids don't think that when the revolution starts if they are on the wrong side, the patriots of liberty and freedom won't march right over them on our way to that freedom. Cause we will crush you right along with your masters. If you serve evil, you are evil. End of story.
My children will not be wearing red shirts or jackets and doing calesthenics in a square with a bunch of other zombies. The GIVE Act must be repealed. There is plenty that people - individuals - can do on their own without joining the collective. I served through the Red Cross when I was a teen. The people in the video are being good little communist government-loving zombies. Sorry, not my cup of TEA.
I have worked for AmeriCorps for the past year, and I have never been forced to do anything outside of my realm of comfort. You know what I did throughout my term? I taught children in a school district with a 90% poverty rate. The Serve America Act will help other members such as myself to continue to keep going to poverty-stricken schools and offer support to school districts that cannot afford to keep hiring paraprofessionals to help teachers. so wtf
@cheesesteak93 Some prefer to bathe in conspiracies, narrow-minded perhaps? With all the pseudo-arguments it gets hard to see who's really right in the end, however at least SOME see more than what's really there. And some see less.
If you're really into conspiracies and all the stuff, however, you get easily "gullable" for more. It's interesting, they blame "sheeples", yet in some way they're the same.
Walk through life with open eyes and a clear mind, I say. Some things are bad, some not.
I was indicating to all those hordes of brainwashed zombies who claim to have "Christian Values", yet when hearing about solidarity or helping other their inner Glen Beck starts yelling "SoSHalEEzm"...
Who talked about zionists?
Seeing things that aren't here maybe?
That's why advise you to run a brain check-up...
Israel is far from peace...
You have fascist paramilitants at one side and a fascist government at another...
@Orthodoxcrusader Oh I agree with you about Glen Beck.Demagogue.By the way,Glen Beck is a zionist.You have Israel all wrong.Israel is ,in reality,occupied Palestine.The Palestinians are doing what any occupied peoples do,which is fighting back any way they can.The middle east is a powderkeg thanks to a bunch of displaced Russians,Americans and Europeans.
For those who think City Year is part of illuminati and hitler youth please don't speak on what you don't know if you haven't actually experienced the program or looked further into it. Just don't speak on it at all. Please educate yourself seriously.
@JayakaBeautiful Don't worry about it, the youth of America are clearly lagging behind in terms of global imperialism v a Global Revolution, I see 20 year olds demanding freedom in the Arab gulf & Iceland, they understand that the IMF, World Bank and Wallstreet are crushing the wellbeing of the people. So u can have Obama & Fed & TSA, & City year, we don't want it.
No Autocracy, No Despotism, No Nepotism, No Cronyism. Thanks for posting your view, we may not be serious but we are educated. ;-)
its not the program most of us have a problem with its the fact that its MANDATORY if you dont believe me either read the give act or typ into youtube to see what rome emanuel says about this we are a free people and our government cant draft us for this
i find it funny, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, rebuilding areas wiped out by disasters, healing the sick.... who knew that by doing these things i was being a zombie communist.
i shall fix my ways. i shall grab a gun and shoot the poor and unfortunate people of this country. then i shall send the bill for the gun and bullets to the weeping families so that they can know that i did them a favor.
@yammosk88 - The only idiots on here are the people who are defending a program that is so obviously present to be a part of a wide variety of factions comprised of useful idiots that may be lied to and called upon to help destroy the rule of law and impose arbitrary government on the people of this nation who use to enjoy living in a constitutional republic with prestigious democratic institutions, separate and coequal branches of government, and a free and safe civil society.
@JayakaBeautiful hmm take the youngsters away from the parents and drill leftist bs into thier heads , rockafellers funded womans lib to get the other half of population out and paying tak=xes while the gov raised the kids
@JayakaBeautiful IS THERE A BRAIN CELLIN YER HEAD? Its not about what people say. OF COURSE you will be told its for "the Good" "the noble"........thats how it works. You are just kids being led into service by a master that will use and deceive you. These are steps and carefully planned psyc-ops, used over and over throughout history. it ALWAYS starts out for causes that will draw the young in.....it will change, it already has.
for whoever posted something about obama youth, please note that this video was uplaoded in May of 2009. and Americorps started in 1994, educate yourself on something before you make a comment next time maybe? and Americorps is a great program that has helped out in disasters and helps communities become better places each and every day.
the problem starts with the fact that its become mandatory under the give act no matter how great a program is people are free and shouldnt be forced to do anything thye dont want to
@elfgirl3 it's sad to see people that don't see the value in volunteer organizations. after Hurrican Katrina, when George W. Bush was still running around like a jackass trying to figure out what to do, the Red Cross, Americorps, and others were already there. I don't know about this City Year group, but fuck you for insulting the others
in what way does Habitat for Humanity help the 10% control the 90%? by becoming partners with impoverished families and helping them to build and maintain their house, which is provided to them through an interest free mortgage assessing only the material cost of the house? by revitalizing communities across the country that have been left out to dry when industry left and poverty took hold?
@DoucheyBaggins What does this video have to do with Habitat for Humanity???? it's about Obama's youth corps... which seem to mimic the Hitler youth corps
@elfgirl3 Wow you're an idiot, City Year is endorsed by republicans and democrats alike and has been around since the late 80s. Helping children, the majority being minorities less fortunate than you meet proficiency levels in school doesn't mimic Hitler's youth corps at all. City Year's mission is to instill the importance of diversity into its corps members, do a little research before you spread fear and lies on the internet.
When they put their hands behind their backs at it appears (to me) that they are making that Illuminati sign with the 'compass and set square' measuring implements.
people who talk shit on city year are absolute fucking morons. my brother just got done serving 2 years in boston. im not sure if ill apply because im enlisting in the navy. but i will tell you this. in the time i went and shadowed a corps member in boston, i saw shit that will irritate even the most coldhearted bastards. city years mission is to help kids graduate and do well in school. you people need to get outside of your bubbles and realize that this world is far from perfect.
The people on here saying nasty things about City Year are ridiculous. City Year members tutor kids. You guys must things it's bad when kids graduate from high school.
Looks like Opie's on the path to create his own version of the Red Guard ala Mao, or Thugo Chavez's Red Shirted thugs that go out to disrupt, beat the crap out of peaceful protestors. Bring it ON Opie! Marxist pig!
You guys really don't understand anything about this organization beyond the fact that they wear red jackets and have a advert where they're doing organized exercises, do you?
Are you really advocating voilance against unarmed kids who are helping their community?
If anyone is looking for a reason to call you guys nutjobs, they really need look no further than your constant calling for acts of senseless and horrific violence.
It's a good thing they won't then, considering that it isn't their job.
If in the fairly unlikely change that some sort of gun ban is issued, it's going to be police officers, SWAT or the FBI showing up at your door, not AmeriCorps members. It would make no fucking sense to send AmeriCorps members to take people's guns, AmeriCorps members aren't armed and have no formal combat training.
@ART1975CZ Does Hitler Youth ring a bell? Private groups helping community youth is one thing... government sponsored paramilitary groups being spoon fed propaganda is just downright scary.
It's a good thing we don't have government sponsored paramilitary groups being spoon fed propaganda then, isn't it? Yeah, they're government sponsored and funded, but just about everything else you pointed out is false.
If you did, I don't know, 5 minutes of research from non-conpiracy theorist sites, this would become obvious.
@pgt1027 But we do have government sponsored paramilitary groups being spoon fed propaganda. Every group of kids in uniforms marching and exercising in unison chanting about Obama or some other progressive cause are the automatons we have to worry about. They are the ones that will be easily formed into government sponsored 'armed' paramilitary groups that patriots are going to be forced to fight and kill. We don't want this, but the progressives are going to force this.
Except they're not chanting about Obama or progressive causes. They are giving the usual volunteer / service worker mantra, but people from all walks of life tend to agree with that. Hell, this is a video about City Year, an international program. Sure, the American branch is under the banner of AmeriCorps, but it's still primarily an independent international organization and it's extemely unlikely that they'd make their members chant about the American president.
The Holocaust was spread across Germany and Poland and centered in different Concetration Camps and Death Camps. Millions upon millions of people were killed, Jews in particular as they were the Nazi's biggest personal boogeymen. Is there anything else I need to know?
yes we are, comparing, its how it all started, read your pre WW2 history of Europe. They are comparing it to the Hitler youth who were all raised to support the Nazi party even at the peril of their parents and friends.
One, the Hitler Youth were NOT the same thing as the SS.
There is no comparison between City Year and other AmeriCorps programs and the Hitler Youth beyond being government sponsored and funded. Do some real research into this stuff. Many of the commentors here don't seem to know ANYTHING about the programs beyond this one fucking video.
This is wonderful.....to inspire kids to do GOOD works instead of joining gangs....
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT??? So what if they line up on a field and take a pledge to do make change for good. Most kids NEED more structure and discipline. Looks like they are inspired by Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, President Kennedy. How can you think it's un-American??? I had to line up in formation like that in gym class, and I'm not a para-anything. What's wrong with you people??? Get a life.
They're not the next Hilter brigades, Hitler is dead.
They attempt to show it in a scary light. Starting with titling their version of the video "Paramilitary Propaganda Ad." They also distort the program in their articles to fit their kooky worldview.
No. You're the one making a claim. You're the one who needs to provide proof of that claim.
Yes, I know that, for the most part, people with the most money tend to control things. I just disagree that they have more power now than they used to and I don't believe that they're working together (if history is any indicator, they're usually fighting and backstabbing each other)
It is true that quite a few powerful people meet there, but certainly not all. For instance, right off the top of my head I can tell you that Hillary Clinton is not a member of the Bilderberg group.
There's also no evidence that the Bilderberg group does anything that conspiracy theorists say it does.
No. There is NO proof that Hillary Clinton has EVER attended a Bilderberg group meeting. Anecdotal evidence is not reliable. Especially from conspiracy theorists, who are notorious liars.
No. Just no. Obama, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and George Bush are not even remotely related to each other.
yes they fing are Brad pitt has even said on television that Obama is related to him
and Madona is also cousins with Hilary
liers what a load of crap we actually know whats going on in this world and what your government is doing behind your back remember north american union and one world bank and you all you sheep said we made it up and now its going to be put into motion this year. why dont you connect the dots yourself.
Do you have an evidence to support those claims? They're pretty wild claims.
No. You are a sheep being led on by lunatics and con artists. Conspiracy theorists back in the '80s said that the NWO would completely colapse the American economy in 1996. Forgot all about that one, didn't they? What about the vaccines and the FEMA camps? Flu season's over... where's the millions of deaths from poisoned vaccines? Didn't happen, did it?
It saddens me to see such Icons of Change as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and MLK being hijacked to reinforce a status quo that perpetuates the agenda of Collectivism and Fascism. What a shame.
AmeriCorps has longstanding ties to ACORN. According to a congressional report, "AmeriCorps members of [ACORN Housing Corporation] raised funds for ACORN, performed voter registration activities [for ACORN], and gave partisan speeches. In one instance, an AmeriCorps member was directed by ACORN staff to assist the [CLINTON] White House in preparing a press conference in support of legislation."
These ties are what IG Walpin (since fired) was working on. Americorp or any non-profit organization cannot by law be "partisan". After all they are using your money. Which is why I originally questioned Get Out the Vote as a "non-profit" which specifically backed a particular politician and his agenda!
Shows your ignorance of AmeriCorps then. Only the folks at City Year wear red and City Year isn't even a major AmeriCorps program. The two big ones are NCCC (the National Civilian Community Corps) and VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), neither of whom wear red. City Year is a minor local program that falls under AmeriCorps' State and National branch.
It's not even a pinky. It's more like a flake of skin.
It's funny how many people like you seem to think all AmeriCorps members wear red. Probably because they only in depth knowlegde you have of it is from fringe sites that tote around videos like this one.
With intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups.
Depends on who's story you take. There's also the fact that the former inspector general was a Bush appointee, who were notorious for being poorly qualified for their positions and largely placed to further the neocon political agenda than to do their job well.
That was more than a decade ago. AmeriCorps relationship with ACORN was brief and is now no more. Not only are AmeriCorps members not allowed to work with ACORN, they're not allowed to work with organizations that work with ACORN.
What do you know about City Year? The youth that do City Year give their lifes to help change the world by giving youth a chance to graduate from high school. So what have you done with your life that has really mattered?
HA! This is hilarious. Gandi, MLK, and a few other social activists beging compared to a government funded/controled organization? I'm suprised they didn't throw out Huey P.
Check this out, MLK and Huey P (and Malcom X) were old adverseries of the government. They advocated social change OUTSIDE of governmental control. Why do you think COINTELPRO moved against them to shut them down? This is fake socialistic reform. It is bullshit. THIS IS NOT A SOCIAL REVOLUTION. it is a puppet
Ghandi and MLK fought against socially opressive governments in order to improve their communities. AmeriCorps members follow in the same strain by improving their communities through direct and indirect community service. Our government isn't so socially opressive and inherantly flawed as the governments in the time of Ghandi and MLK as to require a social revolution.
No one thinks that this is a social revolution. It's just a program that nudges kids in the right direction.
Right, I don't mind that community programs and youth organizations, my biggest problem comes when it is centralized in one point outside of that community (aka under a government umbrella). Now I don't believe that government is the root of all evil, but some things are better off left in the hands of the local community. Because when the funding for these programs comes from a central point then so does their teaching and goals.
Maybe I jumped to conclusion, I'll check them out some more.
AmeriCorps does work for the community. AmeriCorps NCCC members work exclusively with non-profits as NCCC does not run any of it's own projects. Their goals are the community's goals. Same goes, basically, for all branches of AmeriCorps.
The only things AmeriCorps teaches you, aside from the knowledge needed to function, are diversity, how to maintain a healty, inexpensive diet and how to better care for the environment. There is no pro-gov't propaganda.
All right then. If that's really Americoprs then I don't really see a problem in it. And I don't think that groups like this are the next "nazi" corps, but I don't like it when youth groups, special interest groups, or anybody like that gets kick-backs from the government. Not saying either party is inherently evil, but the government does like to give people "suggestions." Like with the new "Green" movement. They "loan" companies and groups money to put out "x" amount of green commecials.
Yeah sure its propaganda, but so are bud light commericials, any information about a belief is propaganda, don't be scared by those faux trigger words such as propaganda.... But this is definitely not paramilitary, anyone who thinks that does not know the definition of paramilitary.
I was in AmeriCorps *NCCC and I can assure you: Corps Members are MUCH more concerned with having fun and helping out local communities than they are with taking over the country.
In fact, never once during my 10 months of service did we have a meeting in which someone said, "Hey, come on now, when do we get to start Nazi gun training?"
We DID watch American Idol and Amazing Race during our free time, though, so we can't claim TOTAL innocence.
It's not propaganda... at least not more so than your average commercial or public service anouncment is propaganda. It's just an advertizement.
Also, a uniform and plegde does not a cult make. Hell, McDonald's workers have to wear a uniform.
Unlike you, IMPLR1369007 actually had a legitamate argument, that AmeriCorps costs too much money and has no Constitutional basis. If you're going to argue, get away from conspiracy theories and argue facts.
Um... those videos you showed me had almost nothing to do with AmeriCorps and only one of them even began to be anything more than baseless speculation.
Yes, some television sponsors might ask for a script to be edited if they feel their product is being cast in a negative light, but I don't believe sponsors have ever handed a TV show it's script.
The state a person's mind goes into do resemble sleep, but it is NOT hypnosis. Hypnosis brainwaves are identicle to that of the brain in normal consciousness.
@pgt1027,you have no idea of which you speak.The last vestige of someone such as yourself is to resort to the "anti-semite" label. I will not respond to you again,as I see you have been sadly,and deeply brainwashed.
Yes, what was I thinking, saying that a person who has a background of an edited "Jaws" poster where the shark as been replaced with a monsterous othodox Jew trying to gobble up a swimmer might be a little anti-semetic?!
And it's you who's using thought defeating arguments like "you don't know what I'M talking about, NEXT" and "you're brainwashed so I won't talk to you"
Pretty good chunk of tax payer change going to a non profit organization that does not pay it's rank and file workers. It does however put out $88,000,000.00 to fund its bureaucracy each year.
@IMPLR1369007@IMPLR1369007 Except that AmeriCorps does pay it's members. It pays many of it's members, especially the ones enrolled in NCCC and VISTA receive a living stipend of $150 every two weeks.
AmeriCorps also has to pay for all the equipment it uses, transportation, maintainance of its facilities, etc etc.
It doesn't receive a lot of funding in comparison to other programs, like the millitary, which receives over 600 billion a year, about 600 times that of AmeriCorps.
You may want to check the U.S. Constitution since it MANDATES that the military be supported in fact it is one of the few government organizations that the Constitution does require the government to fund. Americorps/VISTA/NCCC are nowhere in the Constitution and are therefore not Constitutionally sanctioned. A comparison of the two is an invalid comparison.
Just because the Constitution mandates that the military be funded by the government doesn't justify the fact that it receives more funding than all of the rest of the world's militaries *combined*
Just because AmeriCorps isn't in the Constitution doesn't mean it can't be federally funded. A comparison between the two is perfectly legitimate.
And, no, there are no brown shirts or armbands on order.
The comaprison is not legit, and the military must be funded to allow it to complete the missions it is called on to do, which currently it is not. Also agencies such as Americorps should be totally defunded and the surplus passed back to the taxpayers.
The military is having trouble completing it's missions from a lack of soldiers, not a lack of funding it has plenty of that. The rest of the world's armies get along just fine without the ultra-funding the American army receives.
If the military budget was cut by just 25% and the surplus passed back to the taxpayers, the taxpayers would receive 150 times what they would receive if AmeriCorps was defunded.
Good, then we can cut the military budget by 25%, AND defund Americorps (which is not constitutionally mandated) and get 200% back to the taxpayers who are giving far too much of their hard earned cash over to the avarice of the politicians. The only downside to that is listening the the left wing nutjobs bitching about not having enought body armor after the 25% DoD cut.
More like cuts to the navy, airforce, coast guard, etc, who are basically doing little to nothing because Iraq and Afghanistan are ground wars being fought by the Army and the Marine Corps. There's no reason to get rid of body armor when you could get rid of much more costly things, like research into new jet fighters and the construction of war ships.
Just becasue the troops have something doesn't preclude liberals from complaining about it. The Troops have the best armor available, yet liberal groups still raise hell about armor every time a soldier dies, even when armor was not a factor. Obama has already cut the new hardware that was on the horizon, kicking parts of the military back to 1970's technology.
Yes they are ground wars... supported by aircraft from the Navy and Air Force.
There's no reason to give them as much money as they're being given. Need I remind you that the military budget is over 600 billion dollars a year, more than the rest of the world combined, which only spends 500 billion a year on their militaries.
The marines would be an exception to the Navy's pay cut, obviously.
Also, there's no reason to defund AmeriCorps when it's funding is a mere drop in the bucket compared to other programs, specifically the monsters of the military, social security, and medicade/medicare.
Besides, lately AmeriCorps has actually been quite effective, unlike Social Security and Medicare, which are broken and doomed to failure if significant changes aren't made.
AmeriCorps is merely redundant doing tasks already being done by other agencies, and is little more than "government mandated charity".
As a result of Obama's increased tax payer funding of AmeriCorps, many traditional charities that did work equal to Americorps, but rely solely on individual contributions, have gone into decline.
This decline is the result of individual contributors cutting their charitable contributions after Obama increased their taxes, making charity mandatory.
You sure the decline in charity donations has nothing to do with the near-cataclysmic economic crash we experienced just last year? The taxes Obama pushed through were only against the rich, and then they only raised them back to Clinton-era levels.
Besides, on the whole, AmeriCorps doesn't receive that much funding. The tax return from defunding it would barely be noticable, certainly not enough to convince people to donate to charities again.
Regardless of the cause of the drop, the facts remain that it did happen. Perhaps it was only coincidence, but never the less it did happen. As for the cataclysm, Obamas bailouts and horrendous spending only exacerbated the problem, it did not solve it. So Obama only taxed the rich? What is your evidence? I will wait for the 1040 filing deadline then evaluate exactly how much my taxes are going up. I am not among the "rich", but my witholding has already increased.
Bush actually did the first round of bailouts. The bailouts kept there from being a second Great Depression. What the fuck do you mean it made the situation worse? The spending was largly aimed to help the economy recover. How effective it exactly was remains to be seen,
On the whole body armor for troops is a mere drop in the bucket but it is mandated in the Constitution, whereas AmeriCorps and the rest of Obamas socialist spending is not.
@IMPLR1369007 What about the police departments and fire departments not to mention the DMV and hazardous waste removal agencies? They certainly aren't mandated in the constitution however should the government stop funding them and give you back the money??? Your arguement about the constitution makes sense, but it holds zero relevance in this debate.
And, for the record, AmeriCorps is not a "charity". It's a service program. "Charity" implies that it only serves in the area of Unmet Human Needs, when AmeriCorps works in a variety of areas, including disaster relief, environmental work, education, public safety, etc.
AmeriCorps is an UnConstitutional Service Program that has no basis in substantiation in the Constitution and merits no support from the Taxpayers. It is government enforced giving to an agency that does the same functions as charities. it also does functions that are redundant to government organizations that are already designated to perform those tasks. Americorps is a tax supported volunteer organization. Not mandated under the Constitution
Just because it's not in the Constitution doesn't make it unconstitutional. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, not the ONLY law of the land. So long as it isn't strictly forbidden by the Constitution, I don't see the problem.
It does *some* of the same functions as charities, but do much more.
Mercinaries do the same job as soldiers, does that mean that the military should be written out of the Constitution and disbanded?
Then you would have no problem with taxpayer funding for the likes of the NRA, they perform the service of teaching firearms safety and advocating against the abridgment of the Constitution by radical politicians whose only credentials ar ethat they won a popularity contest. Mercenary soldiers do not do the same job as soldiers since their allegiance is dependent on cash, not so with soldiers.
Nor are private charity organizations necessarily loyal to the United States. Mercs fight wars. Soldiers fight wars. Where their true loyalties lie has nothing to do with the fact that they do the exact same job.
Besides, being the wealthiest nation in the world, and the fact that merc's true loyalty lies in money, we could probably hold their loyalty.
Private Charities are for the most part loyal to where ever the need resides (there are exceptions which are shysters). Many Mercs do not fight the wars, they train local populations to do the fighting and then support them in their actions (typically revolts), whereas National Armies fight their nations wars. Charities have little in the way of allegiance to nations. I have friends who are members of Church Missions that perform charitable work in Russia sent by Churches in the U.S.
Do you understand the concept of national service? Do you realize that Bush Sr. got the ball rolling to start AmeriCorps? Do you know that many nonprofits rely on the service AmeriCorps members provide?
Why hate on something that requires people 18-24 to live on peanuts for a year for the sole purpose of being able to help those in need?
I wish you had some idea of how many lives are better because of the sacrifice of AmeriCorps members. Get a life dude, and go help someone.
Having served 22 years in the U.S. Army, and having served on missions in the U.S. in disaster relief as well as "Peace Keeping" missions in Haiti and Bosnia, YES, I understand "National Service".
Who started the ball rolling is irrelevant. The fact is that other agencies provide these services, the U.S. Military being one of them. The ARC, United Way, etc provide these services, with minimal tax revenue funding. AmeriCorps is a redundant agency, and should be defunded.
You know that United Way is a corrupt organization that basically embezzles donations, right?
Also, other organizations typically can't afford full-time service workers and rely on part-time volunteer work. AmeriCorps CMs are actually able to get a lot more work done with fewer people and are able to provide non-profits with a much-needed supply of workers.
Once again, AmerCorps is no more made redundant by non-profit than the US military is made redundant by mercs.
stop paying taxes!
BeantownJim 5 days ago
Here's a question for you: If we can classify this as some sort of military youth brigade, can we therefore conclude that these are also examples of a brigade as they're wearing similar uniforms and doing some sort of physical work? Plus, it's in the name of the USA.
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nevain247 3 weeks ago
something is wrong when its called 'mandatory voluntary'..not now but we'll be seeing that part of it in 2013...it will be mandatory that all ages 18-42 serve a mandatory time 'volunteering', ages 18-25 have to go to mandatory basic military training and 'volunteering'. this isnt america anymore, were exactly what our founding fathers fought so hard against. hr 1388 is not freedom.
job1866 2 months ago
how do i join? ty
naziscontrolme 2 months ago
you people are absolutely retarded. this guy obviously took a City Year recruitment ad or something (still pretty weird), cut it with other footage, and made it seem like a paramilitary group. you never even had to leave your chair, because he did all the work for you, filling your head with a specific timeline. THAT, my friends, is propaganda
cheesesteak93 5 months ago 3
Why the red jackets?
patten3212 6 months ago
Pleased to meet you - won't you guess my name?
MrCedarPawn 6 months ago
Heres an idea instead of spending money on all those stupid red jackets lets give it to some starving kids who are hungry.. Who are these idiots trying to fool?
clarkygorny 6 months ago
Yes. Let's all do the same thing. Hey, wait a minute... Isn't this a group serving as pawns of a centralized government? Kinda makes me wonder why the video shows people people standing against a overly powerful state. Oh wait, I get it, the "AmeriCorp" are the tanks trying to run that guy representing your liberties over. Makes sense now.
DrFizzleboom 6 months ago
'The City' is a Reference to 'The Empire of the City' - Google it.
"The City' Refers to 3 Autonomous Privately Owned City States... Inner City of London Financial District, Washington DC, & Vatican City. All owned by the Rothschilds Banking Cartels... Google 'Ring of Power - Empire of the City'
riseandshinetruthnow 6 months ago
thats city year
JamesianDGAF 6 months ago
I hope these kids don't think that when the revolution starts if they are on the wrong side, the patriots of liberty and freedom won't march right over them on our way to that freedom. Cause we will crush you right along with your masters. If you serve evil, you are evil. End of story.
ShenMerrick 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
It's Nazi Germany, part 2.
CookiesAndGuns95 7 months ago
My children will not be wearing red shirts or jackets and doing calesthenics in a square with a bunch of other zombies. The GIVE Act must be repealed. There is plenty that people - individuals - can do on their own without joining the collective. I served through the Red Cross when I was a teen. The people in the video are being good little communist government-loving zombies. Sorry, not my cup of TEA.
miazagora 7 months ago
I have worked for AmeriCorps for the past year, and I have never been forced to do anything outside of my realm of comfort. You know what I did throughout my term? I taught children in a school district with a 90% poverty rate. The Serve America Act will help other members such as myself to continue to keep going to poverty-stricken schools and offer support to school districts that cannot afford to keep hiring paraprofessionals to help teachers. so wtf
icanwaik 8 months ago
@cheesesteak93 Some prefer to bathe in conspiracies, narrow-minded perhaps? With all the pseudo-arguments it gets hard to see who's really right in the end, however at least SOME see more than what's really there. And some see less.
If you're really into conspiracies and all the stuff, however, you get easily "gullable" for more. It's interesting, they blame "sheeples", yet in some way they're the same.
Walk through life with open eyes and a clear mind, I say. Some things are bad, some not.
Combine605 8 months ago
Paramilitary?
This ain't Michigan militia redneck terrorist organization nor the KKK...
I can't remember any other paramilitant US formation there than these two...
Well; Blackwater ofcourse...
Maybe?
P.S. Christian values are scary aren't they? Like solidarity...
Your masters don't like that...
Orthodoxcrusader 8 months ago
@Orthodoxcrusader It's the Zionist values that will usher in WW111
junktex 7 months ago
@junktex
ROFL!!!
You should take an MRI...
Or a CAT scan...
Orthodoxcrusader 7 months ago
@Orthodoxcrusader So really all is peace and love in Israel?you need the reality check
junktex 7 months ago
@junktex
You're an idiot...
Or insane...
Maybe even both...
I was indicating to all those hordes of brainwashed zombies who claim to have "Christian Values", yet when hearing about solidarity or helping other their inner Glen Beck starts yelling "SoSHalEEzm"...
Who talked about zionists?
Seeing things that aren't here maybe?
That's why advise you to run a brain check-up...
Israel is far from peace...
You have fascist paramilitants at one side and a fascist government at another...
Orthodoxcrusader 7 months ago
@Orthodoxcrusader Oh I agree with you about Glen Beck.Demagogue.By the way,Glen Beck is a zionist.You have Israel all wrong.Israel is ,in reality,occupied Palestine.The Palestinians are doing what any occupied peoples do,which is fighting back any way they can.The middle east is a powderkeg thanks to a bunch of displaced Russians,Americans and Europeans.
junktex 7 months ago
are all of you guys touched in the head? if anything Americorps is one of the few government organizations that's still trying to do some good
cheesesteak93 9 months ago
For those who think City Year is part of illuminati and hitler youth please don't speak on what you don't know if you haven't actually experienced the program or looked further into it. Just don't speak on it at all. Please educate yourself seriously.
JayakaBeautiful 11 months ago 3
@JayakaBeautiful Don't worry about it, the youth of America are clearly lagging behind in terms of global imperialism v a Global Revolution, I see 20 year olds demanding freedom in the Arab gulf & Iceland, they understand that the IMF, World Bank and Wallstreet are crushing the wellbeing of the people. So u can have Obama & Fed & TSA, & City year, we don't want it.
No Autocracy, No Despotism, No Nepotism, No Cronyism. Thanks for posting your view, we may not be serious but we are educated. ;-)
ibram786 11 months ago
@JayakaBeautiful
its not the program most of us have a problem with its the fact that its MANDATORY if you dont believe me either read the give act or typ into youtube to see what rome emanuel says about this we are a free people and our government cant draft us for this
whhyyyyyyyyyy 10 months ago
@JayakaBeautiful
i find it funny, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, rebuilding areas wiped out by disasters, healing the sick.... who knew that by doing these things i was being a zombie communist.
i shall fix my ways. i shall grab a gun and shoot the poor and unfortunate people of this country. then i shall send the bill for the gun and bullets to the weeping families so that they can know that i did them a favor.
the friggin idiots on here......
yammosk88 10 months ago 5
@yammosk88 Hamas also feeds people and "helps" people. That doesn't make them good.
miazagora 7 months ago
@yammosk88 - The only idiots on here are the people who are defending a program that is so obviously present to be a part of a wide variety of factions comprised of useful idiots that may be lied to and called upon to help destroy the rule of law and impose arbitrary government on the people of this nation who use to enjoy living in a constitutional republic with prestigious democratic institutions, separate and coequal branches of government, and a free and safe civil society.
thetruthisoutthere32 5 days ago
@JayakaBeautiful so you don't want people calling it what it is...interesting
GunnerKawasaki 9 months ago
@JayakaBeautiful hmm take the youngsters away from the parents and drill leftist bs into thier heads , rockafellers funded womans lib to get the other half of population out and paying tak=xes while the gov raised the kids
oiyabastard 6 months ago
@JayakaBeautiful THANK YOU! I agree.
sixiesaysie 6 months ago
@JayakaBeautiful IS THERE A BRAIN CELLIN YER HEAD? Its not about what people say. OF COURSE you will be told its for "the Good" "the noble"........thats how it works. You are just kids being led into service by a master that will use and deceive you. These are steps and carefully planned psyc-ops, used over and over throughout history. it ALWAYS starts out for causes that will draw the young in.....it will change, it already has.
SonsOfLibertyRiders 5 months ago
@JayakaBeautiful This looks just like the Hitler Youth and Brown Shirts!
edarotag84 1 month ago
for whoever posted something about obama youth, please note that this video was uplaoded in May of 2009. and Americorps started in 1994, educate yourself on something before you make a comment next time maybe? and Americorps is a great program that has helped out in disasters and helps communities become better places each and every day.
audawn1 11 months ago
@audawn1
the problem starts with the fact that its become mandatory under the give act no matter how great a program is people are free and shouldnt be forced to do anything thye dont want to
whhyyyyyyyyyy 10 months ago 2
Whats with the Zulu war dance? Drums? WTF?
What kind of teen would be drawn to that?....ahhhhh...ok
malangsob 1 year ago
"Over the years I've had many looks." You may remember me most when I wore my brown shirt!
1LtMike 1 year ago
"Over the years I've had many faces." Ya, and his name was Adolf Hitler!
1LtMike 1 year ago 4
This is CITY YEAR. NOT AMERICORPS =O!
GTSreviewer 1 year ago
sad to see this... brainwashed youth who think that they are making a difference but are helping the 10% control the 90%
elfgirl3 1 year ago 3
@elfgirl3 it's sad to see people that don't see the value in volunteer organizations. after Hurrican Katrina, when George W. Bush was still running around like a jackass trying to figure out what to do, the Red Cross, Americorps, and others were already there. I don't know about this City Year group, but fuck you for insulting the others
cheesesteak93 5 months ago 2
@elfgirl3
in what way does Habitat for Humanity help the 10% control the 90%? by becoming partners with impoverished families and helping them to build and maintain their house, which is provided to them through an interest free mortgage assessing only the material cost of the house? by revitalizing communities across the country that have been left out to dry when industry left and poverty took hold?
what the fuck is your basic mental flaw elflady?
DoucheyBaggins 3 months ago
@DoucheyBaggins What does this video have to do with Habitat for Humanity???? it's about Obama's youth corps... which seem to mimic the Hitler youth corps
elfgirl3 3 months ago
@elfgirl3 Wow you're an idiot, City Year is endorsed by republicans and democrats alike and has been around since the late 80s. Helping children, the majority being minorities less fortunate than you meet proficiency levels in school doesn't mimic Hitler's youth corps at all. City Year's mission is to instill the importance of diversity into its corps members, do a little research before you spread fear and lies on the internet.
halmay024 1 month ago
@DoucheyBaggins through CNCS Americorps funds ~400 members to work with HFH affiliates throughout America.
DoucheyBaggins 3 months ago
Here are the Hitler Youth doing their PT like good little Nazis.
They are brainwashed and they don't realise it.
How very sad this is to watch.
(And like all good fascists the City Year channel censors comments)
ukpropaganda 1 year ago
Welcome to the Obama Youth ladies and gentlemen.
ceoaalp 1 year ago
When they put their hands behind their backs at it appears (to me) that they are making that Illuminati sign with the 'compass and set square' measuring implements.
Anyone else think so?
Aworldofslaves 1 year ago
@Aworldofslaves
I agree.at 00:51. It's simple. Pyramid and the eye in the middle. The NWO frickin Illuminati bull crappers >=(
TheLazarusnightwolf 1 year ago
Unsmiling, fascist kids.....where have I seen that before?
ukpropaganda 1 year ago
@ukpropaganda Nazi fucking Germany under Hitler.
ceoaalp 1 year ago
So much for being the Progressives secret police. These kids couldn't scare a flea.
skinhead5 1 year ago
people who talk shit on city year are absolute fucking morons. my brother just got done serving 2 years in boston. im not sure if ill apply because im enlisting in the navy. but i will tell you this. in the time i went and shadowed a corps member in boston, i saw shit that will irritate even the most coldhearted bastards. city years mission is to help kids graduate and do well in school. you people need to get outside of your bubbles and realize that this world is far from perfect.
224flyersfan 1 year ago 3
I kept waiting for them to break into some P-Funk.
Oh well . . . .
pyramidprowler 1 year ago
Leni R. would have loved color film.
1970porsche9146 1 year ago
The people on here saying nasty things about City Year are ridiculous. City Year members tutor kids. You guys must things it's bad when kids graduate from high school.
jbossi 1 year ago
I wonder if the Dali Lama knows he is being used to reinvent the Hitler youth.
JesusDillinger 1 year ago
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jbossi 1 year ago
If these creatures come near me or my house, they will get blasted.
jabronis33 1 year ago
@vleon1012
How could City Year ever possibly become manditory? Ya know, because not everyone lives in a city.
The whole "manditory service" bull was just a scare campaign. I have doubts that it ever existed.
pgt1027 1 year ago
Brainwashed teenagers are a dangerous thing.
WTF has happened America?
HuckMeHard 1 year ago
@HuckMeHard
They're not being brainwashed. Try to do some real research on these organizations without just blindly taking your talkinghead's line about it.
pgt1027 1 year ago
Looks like Opie's on the path to create his own version of the Red Guard ala Mao, or Thugo Chavez's Red Shirted thugs that go out to disrupt, beat the crap out of peaceful protestors. Bring it ON Opie! Marxist pig!
bweir2001 1 year ago
@bweir2001
You guys really don't understand anything about this organization beyond the fact that they wear red jackets and have a advert where they're doing organized exercises, do you?
pgt1027 1 year ago
Jumping jacks wont help a 303 round through their chest.
HHHdahman 1 year ago
@HHHdahman
Are you really advocating voilance against unarmed kids who are helping their community?
If anyone is looking for a reason to call you guys nutjobs, they really need look no further than your constant calling for acts of senseless and horrific violence.
pgt1027 1 year ago
@pgt1027
I never said I would just go shoot them for the hell of it.
They come to MY door looking for MY guns. Ill give them my guns, bullets first though.
HHHdahman 1 year ago
@HHHdahman
It's a good thing they won't then, considering that it isn't their job.
If in the fairly unlikely change that some sort of gun ban is issued, it's going to be police officers, SWAT or the FBI showing up at your door, not AmeriCorps members. It would make no fucking sense to send AmeriCorps members to take people's guns, AmeriCorps members aren't armed and have no formal combat training.
pgt1027 1 year ago
@pgt1027
They look pretty trained to me.
Most of em could prob wip my ass regardless(im hella white lol) most of them are huge black kids.
HHHdahman 1 year ago
@HHHdahman
Trained to work at homeless shelters, fix homes and help the environment maybe. Trained for combat? No.
If they've had combat training, it wasn't any AmeriCorps progam that gave it to them.
pgt1027 1 year ago
Excellent. Focus is Great
SO What is Wrong here ?
ART1975CZ 1 year ago
@ART1975CZ Does Hitler Youth ring a bell? Private groups helping community youth is one thing... government sponsored paramilitary groups being spoon fed propaganda is just downright scary.
PatriotsRepublic 1 year ago
@PatriotsRepublic
It's a good thing we don't have government sponsored paramilitary groups being spoon fed propaganda then, isn't it? Yeah, they're government sponsored and funded, but just about everything else you pointed out is false.
If you did, I don't know, 5 minutes of research from non-conpiracy theorist sites, this would become obvious.
pgt1027 1 year ago
@pgt1027 But we do have government sponsored paramilitary groups being spoon fed propaganda. Every group of kids in uniforms marching and exercising in unison chanting about Obama or some other progressive cause are the automatons we have to worry about. They are the ones that will be easily formed into government sponsored 'armed' paramilitary groups that patriots are going to be forced to fight and kill. We don't want this, but the progressives are going to force this.
PatriotsRepublic 1 year ago
@PatriotsRepublic
Except they're not chanting about Obama or progressive causes. They are giving the usual volunteer / service worker mantra, but people from all walks of life tend to agree with that. Hell, this is a video about City Year, an international program. Sure, the American branch is under the banner of AmeriCorps, but it's still primarily an independent international organization and it's extemely unlikely that they'd make their members chant about the American president.
pgt1027 1 year ago
its so funny that the right wing militia gun nutjobs are affraid of those guys. hahahah totally missing the irony.
redFISTofEUROPE 1 year ago
SS kids
no1cr500racer 1 year ago
@no1cr500racer
Are you comparing City Year to the SS? Seriously?
You think a bunch of youth interested in helping their communities and fighting poverty are the same as the Nazi elite who oversaw the Holocaust?
pgt1027 1 year ago
@pgt1027 id suggest you research how big the holocaust REALLY was
MirageScience 1 year ago
@MirageScience
The Holocaust was spread across Germany and Poland and centered in different Concetration Camps and Death Camps. Millions upon millions of people were killed, Jews in particular as they were the Nazi's biggest personal boogeymen. Is there anything else I need to know?
pgt1027 1 year ago
@pgt1027 yes we are, comparing, its how it all started, read your pre WW2 history of Europe.
asianboxmuncher 1 year ago
@pgt1027
yes we are, comparing, its how it all started, read your pre WW2 history of Europe. They are comparing it to the Hitler youth who were all raised to support the Nazi party even at the peril of their parents and friends.
asianboxmuncher 1 year ago
@asianboxmuncher
One, the Hitler Youth were NOT the same thing as the SS.
There is no comparison between City Year and other AmeriCorps programs and the Hitler Youth beyond being government sponsored and funded. Do some real research into this stuff. Many of the commentors here don't seem to know ANYTHING about the programs beyond this one fucking video.
pgt1027 1 year ago
This is wonderful.....to inspire kids to do GOOD works instead of joining gangs....
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT??? So what if they line up on a field and take a pledge to do make change for good. Most kids NEED more structure and discipline. Looks like they are inspired by Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, President Kennedy. How can you think it's un-American??? I had to line up in formation like that in gym class, and I'm not a para-anything. What's wrong with you people??? Get a life.
1973Denver 1 year ago
@1973Denver Free societies do not have nationalistic, government controlled, youth brigades. Every single totalitarian nation does.
Heathh49008 1 year ago
@Heathh49008
Sure is a good thing we don't have youth brigadesn then, isn't it?
pgt1027 1 year ago
is this real?
willgudmundsson 2 years ago
Yeah.
Though the infowars idiots distort it.
pgt1027 2 years ago
how do they distort it there the next hitler brigades
wake up holy crap
TormentedStatue 1 year ago
They're not the next Hilter brigades, Hitler is dead.
They attempt to show it in a scary light. Starting with titling their version of the video "Paramilitary Propaganda Ad." They also distort the program in their articles to fit their kooky worldview.
pgt1027 1 year ago
really you really think so
banks are taking over the world
the britsh cartels that put Hitler in power put Obama in power
Youth Brigades
Big Brother
national symbolism of Obamas administration
FEMA camps ordered millions of Black Plastic Coffins by thCDC that put all the crap in the vaccines
do I need to say more
TormentedStatue 1 year ago
If the point you were trying to make was "I am a borderline schizophrenic conspiracy theorist" then, no, you do not need to say more.
Banks don't control the world anymore now than they ever have.
British cartels? The fuck are you talking about?
They're not really "brigades". They're not militaristic enough
Big Brother? What's this supposed to mean?
Obama's not asking us to put it on our flag and wear in on our arms.
If the vaccines are poisoned, why is no one dead yet?
pgt1027 1 year ago
if you dont know any of that then im sorry but your going to have to look into it yourself
Banks do control this world the people with the most money control the world learn from history
TormentedStatue 1 year ago
No. You're the one making a claim. You're the one who needs to provide proof of that claim.
Yes, I know that, for the most part, people with the most money tend to control things. I just disagree that they have more power now than they used to and I don't believe that they're working together (if history is any indicator, they're usually fighting and backstabbing each other)
pgt1027 1 year ago
look up the bilderburg group or do you even know what that is
its like all the most powerful people in the world coming together
TormentedStatue 1 year ago
I do know what the Bilderberg group is.
It is true that quite a few powerful people meet there, but certainly not all. For instance, right off the top of my head I can tell you that Hillary Clinton is not a member of the Bilderberg group.
There's also no evidence that the Bilderberg group does anything that conspiracy theorists say it does.
pgt1027 1 year ago
Hilary clinton has been to one of those meetings you know with Obama
and yes they do have proof from insiders and they have said they talk about depopulation as one of here main goals
plus hillary clinton is part of this bloodline that controls this world and shes cousins with Obama through brad pitt and angelina jolie
and Obamas cousins with George bush look it up he has a crazy family tree
TormentedStatue 1 year ago
No. There is NO proof that Hillary Clinton has EVER attended a Bilderberg group meeting. Anecdotal evidence is not reliable. Especially from conspiracy theorists, who are notorious liars.
No. Just no. Obama, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and George Bush are not even remotely related to each other.
pgt1027 1 year ago
yes they fing are Brad pitt has even said on television that Obama is related to him
and Madona is also cousins with Hilary
liers what a load of crap we actually know whats going on in this world and what your government is doing behind your back remember north american union and one world bank and you all you sheep said we made it up and now its going to be put into motion this year. why dont you connect the dots yourself.
TormentedStatue 1 year ago
Do you have an evidence to support those claims? They're pretty wild claims.
No. You are a sheep being led on by lunatics and con artists. Conspiracy theorists back in the '80s said that the NWO would completely colapse the American economy in 1996. Forgot all about that one, didn't they? What about the vaccines and the FEMA camps? Flu season's over... where's the millions of deaths from poisoned vaccines? Didn't happen, did it?
You guys have memory problems.
pgt1027 1 year ago
i just realised that this video is kinda like a ripoff of michael jackson's man in the mirror video from the moonwalker movie lol
PatrioticHate 2 years ago
It saddens me to see such Icons of Change as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and MLK being hijacked to reinforce a status quo that perpetuates the agenda of Collectivism and Fascism. What a shame.
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
"status quo that perpetuates the agenda of Collectivism and Fascism" Excuse me, but what the fuck are you talking about?
It's a community service program. Ghandi , Mother Teresa and MLK were people who improved their communities. That's the connection.
City Year, along with all AmeriCorps programs, are neither collectivist nor fascist in nature.
pgt1027 2 years ago
AmeriCorps has longstanding ties to ACORN. According to a congressional report, "AmeriCorps members of [ACORN Housing Corporation] raised funds for ACORN, performed voter registration activities [for ACORN], and gave partisan speeches. In one instance, an AmeriCorps member was directed by ACORN staff to assist the [CLINTON] White House in preparing a press conference in support of legislation."
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
These ties are what IG Walpin (since fired) was working on. Americorp or any non-profit organization cannot by law be "partisan". After all they are using your money. Which is why I originally questioned Get Out the Vote as a "non-profit" which specifically backed a particular politician and his agenda!
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
Fascist Brownshirts put on red.
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
Shows your ignorance of AmeriCorps then. Only the folks at City Year wear red and City Year isn't even a major AmeriCorps program. The two big ones are NCCC (the National Civilian Community Corps) and VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), neither of whom wear red. City Year is a minor local program that falls under AmeriCorps' State and National branch.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Your statement is the equivalent of "Your dumb because you call a pinky a finger! It's not even BIG!"
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
It's not even a pinky. It's more like a flake of skin.
It's funny how many people like you seem to think all AmeriCorps members wear red. Probably because they only in depth knowlegde you have of it is from fringe sites that tote around videos like this one.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Wait. ARE they or ARE THEY NOT Americorps?
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
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They are AmeriCorps... they're just not a significant enough AmeriCorps program to state that all of AmeriCorps is "Fascist Brownshirts put on red."
pgt1027 2 years ago
IG Walpin was looking to see if AmeriCorps members and funds were being misused by a politician, not if AmeriCorps had ties to ACORN.
pgt1027 2 years ago
With intervention from Michelle Obama, the Americorps inspector general was given the boot and replaced — for doing his job too well, it seems, and uncovering squandering of funds by favored contributors, educational institutions, and left-wing groups.
jeremiahsineiii 2 years ago
Depends on who's story you take. There's also the fact that the former inspector general was a Bush appointee, who were notorious for being poorly qualified for their positions and largely placed to further the neocon political agenda than to do their job well.
pgt1027 2 years ago
That was more than a decade ago. AmeriCorps relationship with ACORN was brief and is now no more. Not only are AmeriCorps members not allowed to work with ACORN, they're not allowed to work with organizations that work with ACORN.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@jeremiahsineiii
What do you know about City Year? The youth that do City Year give their lifes to help change the world by giving youth a chance to graduate from high school. So what have you done with your life that has really mattered?
rideabike830 1 year ago
chill people... Americorps is just a volunteer program. nothing else. every one should just chill a bit...
meemeeyeah 2 years ago
It's a great advert. Man you americans that get all riled up when someone says 'liberal' . what a band of sorry, sore losers you are.
vlaovik 2 years ago
that red will make them great targets :)
im sorry to say i cant wait for this revolution, im going to have alot of fun.
isaanStyle55 2 years ago
You're going to kill unarmed service workers as young as 15 years of age? Good job man.
What revolution? You guys are a tiny fringe group. Barely even a statistic.
pgt1027 2 years ago
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IAMsketchbottle 2 years ago
HA! This is hilarious. Gandi, MLK, and a few other social activists beging compared to a government funded/controled organization? I'm suprised they didn't throw out Huey P.
Check this out, MLK and Huey P (and Malcom X) were old adverseries of the government. They advocated social change OUTSIDE of governmental control. Why do you think COINTELPRO moved against them to shut them down? This is fake socialistic reform. It is bullshit. THIS IS NOT A SOCIAL REVOLUTION. it is a puppet
demboys18 2 years ago
@demboys18
Ghandi and MLK fought against socially opressive governments in order to improve their communities. AmeriCorps members follow in the same strain by improving their communities through direct and indirect community service. Our government isn't so socially opressive and inherantly flawed as the governments in the time of Ghandi and MLK as to require a social revolution.
No one thinks that this is a social revolution. It's just a program that nudges kids in the right direction.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Right, I don't mind that community programs and youth organizations, my biggest problem comes when it is centralized in one point outside of that community (aka under a government umbrella). Now I don't believe that government is the root of all evil, but some things are better off left in the hands of the local community. Because when the funding for these programs comes from a central point then so does their teaching and goals.
Maybe I jumped to conclusion, I'll check them out some more.
demboys18 2 years ago
@demboys18
AmeriCorps does work for the community. AmeriCorps NCCC members work exclusively with non-profits as NCCC does not run any of it's own projects. Their goals are the community's goals. Same goes, basically, for all branches of AmeriCorps.
The only things AmeriCorps teaches you, aside from the knowledge needed to function, are diversity, how to maintain a healty, inexpensive diet and how to better care for the environment. There is no pro-gov't propaganda.
pgt1027 2 years ago
All right then. If that's really Americoprs then I don't really see a problem in it. And I don't think that groups like this are the next "nazi" corps, but I don't like it when youth groups, special interest groups, or anybody like that gets kick-backs from the government. Not saying either party is inherently evil, but the government does like to give people "suggestions." Like with the new "Green" movement. They "loan" companies and groups money to put out "x" amount of green commecials.
demboys18 2 years ago
Yeah sure its propaganda, but so are bud light commericials, any information about a belief is propaganda, don't be scared by those faux trigger words such as propaganda.... But this is definitely not paramilitary, anyone who thinks that does not know the definition of paramilitary.
blacklite911 2 years ago
Cityyear is a fucking non profit comunity service group you fucking tards!
DasEpicUberTroll 2 years ago
Wow. Paranoia sure does run deep in this country.
I was in AmeriCorps *NCCC and I can assure you: Corps Members are MUCH more concerned with having fun and helping out local communities than they are with taking over the country.
In fact, never once during my 10 months of service did we have a meeting in which someone said, "Hey, come on now, when do we get to start Nazi gun training?"
We DID watch American Idol and Amazing Race during our free time, though, so we can't claim TOTAL innocence.
mentalfengshui 2 years ago
This is CULT like!
FREEW0RLD2012 2 years ago
@FREEW0RLD2012
It's not propaganda... at least not more so than your average commercial or public service anouncment is propaganda. It's just an advertizement.
Also, a uniform and plegde does not a cult make. Hell, McDonald's workers have to wear a uniform.
Unlike you, IMPLR1369007 actually had a legitamate argument, that AmeriCorps costs too much money and has no Constitutional basis. If you're going to argue, get away from conspiracy theories and argue facts.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@pgt1097,Ever hear of what I call 'Tel-Lie-Vision' and how it affects the human brain?
FREEW0RLD2012 2 years ago
@FREEW0RLD2012
Um... those videos you showed me had almost nothing to do with AmeriCorps and only one of them even began to be anything more than baseless speculation.
Yes, some television sponsors might ask for a script to be edited if they feel their product is being cast in a negative light, but I don't believe sponsors have ever handed a TV show it's script.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@FREEW0RLD2012
The state a person's mind goes into do resemble sleep, but it is NOT hypnosis. Hypnosis brainwaves are identicle to that of the brain in normal consciousness.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@pgt1027,Ewe haven't the SLIGHTEST CLUE what I'm talking about. NEXT!
FREEW0RLD2012 2 years ago
@FREEW0RLD2012
Then inform me of what you're talking about insteat of putting "NEXT" in all caps.
I'm just saying that, if that's what you're basing your opinions off of, your argument is basically baseless tinfoil hattery.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Ah,but it is you my friend who is wearing that oh so popular hat. ----OFF LINE-----
FREEW0RLD2012 2 years ago
@FREEW0RLD2012
Um... you do realize that "tinfoil hat" refers to conspiracy theorists such as yourself.
Also, nice anti-semetic background, idiot.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@pgt1027,you have no idea of which you speak.The last vestige of someone such as yourself is to resort to the "anti-semite" label. I will not respond to you again,as I see you have been sadly,and deeply brainwashed.
FREEW0RLD2012 2 years ago
@FREEW0RLD2012
Yes, what was I thinking, saying that a person who has a background of an edited "Jaws" poster where the shark as been replaced with a monsterous othodox Jew trying to gobble up a swimmer might be a little anti-semetic?!
And it's you who's using thought defeating arguments like "you don't know what I'M talking about, NEXT" and "you're brainwashed so I won't talk to you"
Maybe it's YOU who's been brainwashed, bro.
How could I know when you have no argument?
pgt1027 2 years ago
This is a PROPAGANDA campaign and you people are arguing Semantics??!!
FREEW0RLD2012 2 years ago
This is all bullshit! Obama is going to turn the youth of America into friggin' "hitler youth"... not me!
carabara1886 2 years ago
They have the Brown Shirts and Armbands on order.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
Hi Kids,
Don't have the balls to serve in the military,
To stupid for college
McDonald's won't hire you due to the drug arrest,
Have we got a deal for you, Americorps
iono54321 2 years ago
AmeriCorps State and National
Total - Program Operating Expenses for 2010.
$1,059,016,000.00
Pretty good chunk of tax payer change going to a non profit organization that does not pay it's rank and file workers. It does however put out $88,000,000.00 to fund its bureaucracy each year.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007 @IMPLR1369007 Except that AmeriCorps does pay it's members. It pays many of it's members, especially the ones enrolled in NCCC and VISTA receive a living stipend of $150 every two weeks.
AmeriCorps also has to pay for all the equipment it uses, transportation, maintainance of its facilities, etc etc.
It doesn't receive a lot of funding in comparison to other programs, like the millitary, which receives over 600 billion a year, about 600 times that of AmeriCorps.
pgt1027 2 years ago
You may want to check the U.S. Constitution since it MANDATES that the military be supported in fact it is one of the few government organizations that the Constitution does require the government to fund. Americorps/VISTA/NCCC are nowhere in the Constitution and are therefore not Constitutionally sanctioned. A comparison of the two is an invalid comparison.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
Just because the Constitution mandates that the military be funded by the government doesn't justify the fact that it receives more funding than all of the rest of the world's militaries *combined*
Just because AmeriCorps isn't in the Constitution doesn't mean it can't be federally funded. A comparison between the two is perfectly legitimate.
And, no, there are no brown shirts or armbands on order.
pgt1027 2 years ago
The comaprison is not legit, and the military must be funded to allow it to complete the missions it is called on to do, which currently it is not. Also agencies such as Americorps should be totally defunded and the surplus passed back to the taxpayers.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
The military is having trouble completing it's missions from a lack of soldiers, not a lack of funding it has plenty of that. The rest of the world's armies get along just fine without the ultra-funding the American army receives.
If the military budget was cut by just 25% and the surplus passed back to the taxpayers, the taxpayers would receive 150 times what they would receive if AmeriCorps was defunded.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Good, then we can cut the military budget by 25%, AND defund Americorps (which is not constitutionally mandated) and get 200% back to the taxpayers who are giving far too much of their hard earned cash over to the avarice of the politicians. The only downside to that is listening the the left wing nutjobs bitching about not having enought body armor after the 25% DoD cut.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
More like cuts to the navy, airforce, coast guard, etc, who are basically doing little to nothing because Iraq and Afghanistan are ground wars being fought by the Army and the Marine Corps. There's no reason to get rid of body armor when you could get rid of much more costly things, like research into new jet fighters and the construction of war ships.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Just becasue the troops have something doesn't preclude liberals from complaining about it. The Troops have the best armor available, yet liberal groups still raise hell about armor every time a soldier dies, even when armor was not a factor. Obama has already cut the new hardware that was on the horizon, kicking parts of the military back to 1970's technology.
Yes they are ground wars... supported by aircraft from the Navy and Air Force.
BTW, the Marines are part of the Navy.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
Supported, not fought by.
There's no reason to give them as much money as they're being given. Need I remind you that the military budget is over 600 billion dollars a year, more than the rest of the world combined, which only spends 500 billion a year on their militaries.
The marines would be an exception to the Navy's pay cut, obviously.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
Also, there's no reason to defund AmeriCorps when it's funding is a mere drop in the bucket compared to other programs, specifically the monsters of the military, social security, and medicade/medicare.
Besides, lately AmeriCorps has actually been quite effective, unlike Social Security and Medicare, which are broken and doomed to failure if significant changes aren't made.
pgt1027 2 years ago
AmeriCorps is merely redundant doing tasks already being done by other agencies, and is little more than "government mandated charity".
As a result of Obama's increased tax payer funding of AmeriCorps, many traditional charities that did work equal to Americorps, but rely solely on individual contributions, have gone into decline.
This decline is the result of individual contributors cutting their charitable contributions after Obama increased their taxes, making charity mandatory.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
You sure the decline in charity donations has nothing to do with the near-cataclysmic economic crash we experienced just last year? The taxes Obama pushed through were only against the rich, and then they only raised them back to Clinton-era levels.
Besides, on the whole, AmeriCorps doesn't receive that much funding. The tax return from defunding it would barely be noticable, certainly not enough to convince people to donate to charities again.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@pgt1027
Regardless of the cause of the drop, the facts remain that it did happen. Perhaps it was only coincidence, but never the less it did happen. As for the cataclysm, Obamas bailouts and horrendous spending only exacerbated the problem, it did not solve it. So Obama only taxed the rich? What is your evidence? I will wait for the 1040 filing deadline then evaluate exactly how much my taxes are going up. I am not among the "rich", but my witholding has already increased.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
Bush actually did the first round of bailouts. The bailouts kept there from being a second Great Depression. What the fuck do you mean it made the situation worse? The spending was largly aimed to help the economy recover. How effective it exactly was remains to be seen,
How much money do you make?
pgt1027 2 years ago
I make $50,000.00/yr, and that has what?? to do with the subject at hand? And your income?
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@pgt1027
On the whole body armor for troops is a mere drop in the bucket but it is mandated in the Constitution, whereas AmeriCorps and the rest of Obamas socialist spending is not.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007 What about the police departments and fire departments not to mention the DMV and hazardous waste removal agencies? They certainly aren't mandated in the constitution however should the government stop funding them and give you back the money??? Your arguement about the constitution makes sense, but it holds zero relevance in this debate.
JonnyBWycked 1 year ago
@IMPLR1369007
And, for the record, AmeriCorps is not a "charity". It's a service program. "Charity" implies that it only serves in the area of Unmet Human Needs, when AmeriCorps works in a variety of areas, including disaster relief, environmental work, education, public safety, etc.
pgt1027 2 years ago
@pgt1027
AmeriCorps is an UnConstitutional Service Program that has no basis in substantiation in the Constitution and merits no support from the Taxpayers. It is government enforced giving to an agency that does the same functions as charities. it also does functions that are redundant to government organizations that are already designated to perform those tasks. Americorps is a tax supported volunteer organization. Not mandated under the Constitution
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
Just because it's not in the Constitution doesn't make it unconstitutional. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, not the ONLY law of the land. So long as it isn't strictly forbidden by the Constitution, I don't see the problem.
It does *some* of the same functions as charities, but do much more.
Mercinaries do the same job as soldiers, does that mean that the military should be written out of the Constitution and disbanded?
pgt1027 2 years ago
Then you would have no problem with taxpayer funding for the likes of the NRA, they perform the service of teaching firearms safety and advocating against the abridgment of the Constitution by radical politicians whose only credentials ar ethat they won a popularity contest. Mercenary soldiers do not do the same job as soldiers since their allegiance is dependent on cash, not so with soldiers.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
Nor are private charity organizations necessarily loyal to the United States. Mercs fight wars. Soldiers fight wars. Where their true loyalties lie has nothing to do with the fact that they do the exact same job.
Besides, being the wealthiest nation in the world, and the fact that merc's true loyalty lies in money, we could probably hold their loyalty.
pgt1027 2 years ago
Private Charities are for the most part loyal to where ever the need resides (there are exceptions which are shysters). Many Mercs do not fight the wars, they train local populations to do the fighting and then support them in their actions (typically revolts), whereas National Armies fight their nations wars. Charities have little in the way of allegiance to nations. I have friends who are members of Church Missions that perform charitable work in Russia sent by Churches in the U.S.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
Do you understand the concept of national service? Do you realize that Bush Sr. got the ball rolling to start AmeriCorps? Do you know that many nonprofits rely on the service AmeriCorps members provide?
Why hate on something that requires people 18-24 to live on peanuts for a year for the sole purpose of being able to help those in need?
I wish you had some idea of how many lives are better because of the sacrifice of AmeriCorps members. Get a life dude, and go help someone.
MrShieldsp1 2 years ago
MrShieldsp1,
Having served 22 years in the U.S. Army, and having served on missions in the U.S. in disaster relief as well as "Peace Keeping" missions in Haiti and Bosnia, YES, I understand "National Service".
Who started the ball rolling is irrelevant. The fact is that other agencies provide these services, the U.S. Military being one of them. The ARC, United Way, etc provide these services, with minimal tax revenue funding. AmeriCorps is a redundant agency, and should be defunded.
IMPLR1369007 2 years ago
@IMPLR1369007
You know that United Way is a corrupt organization that basically embezzles donations, right?
Also, other organizations typically can't afford full-time service workers and rely on part-time volunteer work. AmeriCorps CMs are actually able to get a lot more work done with fewer people and are able to provide non-profits with a much-needed supply of workers.
Once again, AmerCorps is no more made redundant by non-profit than the US military is made redundant by mercs.
pgt1027 2 years ago