Raw Video: Obama Signs National Service Bill

President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. (April 21)

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[EncompassedRunner]

would've been more fitting if he'd signed it a day earlier, on Hitler's birthday

[coffeenuts44]

Americorp = Hitler-Jugend

The early indoctrination and opiate of the bureaucratic socialist state.

[BrittPhillips]

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[tonylee1973]

My loyalty is to the constitution. Not some losers in D.C. who want to put involuntary servitude back in place.

[clarisd]

Try the AmericCorps site or search the US Gov sites, it may take more time than you realize to track it down. the program helped me to go to college,I owed so much afterwards, to few choices in the Economy of the 80's, so to the Mill, this is a way to hook. I did well, but many will not, and many more will owe big bucks. Good for kids, An education that is not real, is no education! Money to help, when it's very amount ensures servitude is not help, it is enslavement by economic means. IWYW

[tubecraft5]

If you could advise me as to where it's written out for the public to read, I'd like to read it, I'm smart in that respect I'd like to see what it actually says. I know that there are countries in Europe where service is mandatory, and in these countries it's been that way for decades. I wonder what is meant by mandatory. If I'm not mistaken, more and more public high schools are making a few hours of community service a requirement for graduation. So not so terrible? Good for the kids?

[clarisd]

Have you read the entire bill? I feel you should. As it happens, I was an Americorp receipeant, I can tell you the new bill has some hidden twists and turns. Why sign a new bill on an old program that was working very well? I also served 24yrs in the USMC, many yrs were spent in Europe. Just be warned, when we as a people demand more from our Gov, we diminish the rights we cherish, as the Gov will require their pound of flesh. Read the entire bill, then we will talk. Thank you for yr post.

[msiterE]

republican and dems dont matter... double sided coin... im not saying that the people invovled are bad... as time goes on our leadership will ask more and more of these people, sometimes questionable stuff...like going door to door asking if you agree with the prez and if you dont... like santa's list finging out whose naughty and nice... this makes many uneasy... alos obama HAS said that he wants compulsory service...alot of us are on edge man...

[tubecraft5]

No no no no no. Wrong wrong wrong about Americorps. Americorps is the domestic peace corps and it's been around since the end of Bush Senior's administration (called Points of Light.) It's a service organization that helps non profit organizations help communities address problems such as hunger homelessness, crime, and education/help for at risk youths and stuff. Do some research on Americorps, I served in Americorps and it is no conspiracy. It's just good people doing good deeds.

[tubecraft5]

That would likely be the after effect of Bush's pursuits more than Obama's...

[tubecraft5]

You should really sit down with a psychologist and discuss this phobia.

[tubecraft5]

actually Americorps has been around since 1989 as it began under Bush Senior as the Points of Light Foundation which Clinton later defined as Americorps. It is not forced, it is voluntary. You give a year to a non profit organization and help people get better lives, the government helps to pay your living expenses while you serve so that you can live (since it's often more than a full time commitment) and college money after you are done. I did it in 1999. I helped homeless people.