Glenn Beck to Michelle: Are you worried about Obama’s mandatory volunteerism plan?
posted at 6:55 pm on March 26, 2009 by Allahpundit
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If ever there was a segment with potential for GB to veer off into Alex Jones territory, this was it, but it ended up both (relatively) subdued and informative thanks to a sterling turn by the boss. Read her column yesterday on this if you haven’t yet. The real worry here isn’t mandatory volunteerism (oxymoron duly noted), as that provision’s been stripped out of the bill — for now — but an ever-bloating federal bureaucracy and the politicization of civic groups to partisan ends. Consider this the ultimate “What if Bush did it?” hypothetical. Exit question for lawyers and law professors: Is compulsory national service constitutional, at least during peacetime? No privacy implications in being conscripted to serve the state absent a national emergency?
Update: You’ll be cheered to know that the Senate version of the GIVE Act passed this afternoon, 79-19. Here’s the roll. Among those voting yes was our former Republican nominee.
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It’s a cookbook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Blake on March 26, 2009 at 6:59 PM
“It’s a cookbook!”
And if this goes through, our goose is cooked, too.
Wethal on March 26, 2009 at 6:59 PM
“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.”
Wut?
TheTrollhammer on March 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Hell no I’m not, but then again my son probably is as he’s 20 years old and voted for THE ONE! Me thinks my son is having a severe case of buyers remorse about now…of course I rub it in every chance I get!
Liberty or Death on March 26, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I am sure they will have cute little uniforms to wear……
Seven Percent Solution on March 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Really? I didn’t realize Sarah Palin was in the senate.
Oldnuke on March 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM
actually there will be :D
angelwing34215 on March 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Heh…now that there was some funny shiite!
Unfortunately it’s us conseratives that are to be served as the main course!
Liberty or Death on March 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM
WOW……. that video got pulled pretty fast.
……….. Mandatory Volunteers at work!
Seven Percent Solution on March 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Allahpundit, you should be proud of Beck he had a guy from popular mechanics on his show today. The same guy who did the 9/11 debunking. In a few weeks, he is going to debunk, for good, the fema concentration camps conspiracy. He also warned against throwing around conspiracies on the internet.
Complete7 on March 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Allah, can we turn down the ’snide’ on Glenn, plz?
that being said, MM looks and sounds great up there!
baxtrice on March 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Ah, it’s back. There is no god but Allah, and Pundit is his profit.
TheTrollhammer on March 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Not THAT nominee, the old man. LOL.
… and barracks and songs and group showers!
chunderroad on March 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM
I guess parents here have to decide how they would deal with this if is law. I have no children, but you can take it to the bank if I did, NONE of my children would do this. I have seen numerous programs on a man who seems simular to our bho, it did not turn out good for him and God willing it won’t work out for bho.
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letget on March 26, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Probably not with this court. Kennedy’s not that liberal.
JohnJ on March 26, 2009 at 7:10 PM
But aren’t taxes a form of compulsory national service?
JohnJ on March 26, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Glenn Beck to Michelle: Are you worried about Obama’s mandatory volunteerism plan?
The obvious question is if it’s mandatory, how can it be voluntary? Libs are truly nuts!
GFW on March 26, 2009 at 7:12 PM
I can see them now, Goose-Stepping through Mainstreet, keeping us all in line with the Politburo’s policy. Heil Hitler…
DL13 on March 26, 2009 at 7:12 PM
David Vitter “Ban ACORN from being a part of National Service ACT”
William Amos on March 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM
No! Didn’t you get the memo from Harry Reid? Our income taxes are voluntary.
Oldnuke on March 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Community Service even if you have not broken the law because as far as Liberals are concerned you’re breathing their air…you have to pay for it:)
Michelle Obama,
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/20/messiahs-wife-barack-will-never-allow-you-to-go-back-to-your-lives-as-usual-uninvolved-uninformed/
Dr Evil on March 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM
And spiked kool-aid… I think we may have a cult!
upinak on March 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM
What about Alex Jones is bad?
What he has been screaming about for years is all coming true right before all our eyes. (IE the Federal Reserve)
The problem is that most people dismiss him as a cook or conspiracy theorist but have never listened to anything he has said. I was guilty of that for a long time until I listened one day….
All I ask is that we give everyone an opportunity to speak. That is what the 1st amendment is all about. We get pissed when liberals shut down any speech that they don’t agree with, we can’t be guilty of it as well. Listen to the different views before you dismiss. If you don’t agree with him, discuss why you disagree instead of smearing him as a wacko….. Verify what he says, you will be surprised….
Constitution1st on March 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Yeah – that was a quick yank on the video!
At least the Senators from Oklahoma, where I currently reside, are as predictable as ever and voted NAY!
I’m glad that they know who voted for them and are pretty consistent with their votes.
tru2tx on March 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM
There was no national emergency during the Vietnam war and yet there was a draft and a big one.
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I thought they were called re-education camps. Oh, those are for the adults, compulsory partisan volunteer indoctrination is for the kiddos – got it.
thespottedowl on March 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Why is there now a law to get people to volunteer?
sherry on March 26, 2009 at 7:16 PM
What about using our kids as propaganda tools to advance ’social justice’ agendas and other leftist claptrap, heavy on the Alinsky? Like you know who…
Like this:
SEC. 1201. SCHOOL-BASED ALLOTMENTS.
Part I of subtitle B of title I (42 U.S.C. 12521 et seq.) is amended to read as follows:
`PART I–PROGRAMS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY STUDENTS
…. `(2) implementing, operating, or expanding school-based service-learning programs…
Just askin’. I don’t do too well reading bureaucratic gobbledygook.
Buy Danish on March 26, 2009 at 7:16 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
Constitution1st on March 26, 2009 at 7:18 PM
It is all about creating more Federal public union hack jobs for Democrats.
Ricki on March 26, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Alle Jugendlichen werden freiwillige.
DasObamaReich on March 26, 2009 at 7:21 PM
This nutcase Alex Jones ? Who Called for with his supporters called for the arrest or murder of Michelle Malkin ?
William Amos on March 26, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Compulsory national service is probably not constitutional. The big problem will be due process argument – you’re definitely taking liberty away from people. The Court would balance the importance of the regulation with how fundamental they think the right is.
However, if the issue is just whether or not kids need service hours to graduate (which is what I thought the plan was although I’ll cop to not following it that closely), that’s probably going to be OK. Plenty of states and counties already do that anyway.
We don’t give the same rights to children, and requiring them to do 50 hrs of community service before they graduate HS is a legitimate government interest in teaching kids about the importance of service and part of their education. You could make the same argument about mandatory service that you could about making the fat kids take gym, but thankfully the Constitution makes the fat kids run laps with the rest of us.
Proud Rino on March 26, 2009 at 7:23 PM
I can see the future………..
……… you get a knock on the door, and standing before you, is one boy, one girl, and one trans-gender thingy, all in sharp, clean and pressed uniforms and a clip board with your name on it.
A couple of government vans are parked along your street, as you look up to see similar “volunteers” at your neighbor’s homes……………..
…………….They only have one question to determine if you will stay in your home or “accompany” them for further “education”.
Seven Percent Solution on March 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I decided I can’t wait to volunteer. I will move slowly, talk about control and abuse of power and all the things the left does. I can slow down like an Oprah follower. They are on welfare and I need my day so see if I like it.
We need to move slow and act like welfare slobs. If they touch us, we just sue them.
seven on March 26, 2009 at 7:27 PM
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
- Adolf Hitler
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:27 PM
OMG OBAMA IS JUST LIKE HITLER BECAUSE OF THAT QUOTE!!
Proud Rino on March 26, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Give me liberty or give me death.
I don’t think Obama and the dems realize what they’re about to unleash as I for one will fight for freedom to the very end. I’d rather die fighting for it than live under the heavy hand of government.
timajin on March 26, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Duuuuuuude, they need to put Beck at 7 or 10. Imagine his numbers if people were actually home from work to watch? I’d watch if I wasn’t at the office at 5.
marklmail on March 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Wow, Lindsey Graham looks to be coming around with some good votes lately.
cadams on March 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM
So Obama thinks he can get our kids to do something -anything? I can’t get mine to remember to take out the garbage, good luck with that Obama. How many kids are there in this country, I mean out of the population of 300 million? 250,000.00 spread out around the Country are going to be doing what- picking their noses, smacking their gum….playing on their hand held game devices? Obama really is naive, you can lead a duck to water but you can’t make it swim. This will be fun to watch though….motivate thems childrens Mr President.
Dr Evil on March 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
- Vladimir Lenin
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM
My son will do his volunteer community service through church, thank you very much.
ctmom on March 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Well, Allah, when the obama youth come to your apartment building to eat your brain, don’t say you weren’t warned. In fact, they will target beta males first, as they know they have no STDs.
keep the change on March 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM
BTW, Allah, I know you’re only in the business of mocking Beck, but I thought everyone else should know that he had a guy on from Popular Mechanics who will be returning 1 week from next Monday, likely to fully debunk “FEMA Camps”.
You’ll recall that Allah’s brother in faith Maher, along with Olby, attacked Beck for raising the issue of FEMA camps, even though it was obvious that Beck’s agenda was to debunk them.
The guy from PM said he hadn’t totally completed his examination of the conspiracy theory, yet, but apparently will be wrapped up for the April 6 show.
RightWinged on March 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Alex Jones,getting up in Michelle’s face,was on CoastoCoast
a while back,and he portrayed himself as the victim——–
he’s an idiot!
Plus,all through Bush’s terms,he kept railing about the New
World Order Nuttery,and Bush was going to cease power,
Alex Jones was wrong,its Obama that’s well on that way,to
dictatorship!!
canopfor on March 26, 2009 at 7:33 PM
The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.
- Vladimir Lenin
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Little bits at a time. Incrementally taking piece by piece of our freedom. One slice of our soul here and a chunk of our will there.
Sneaking in a little rule here and sqeezing out a choice there. Taking our children from us to reprogram the socialist idology into their heads.
Until we are told what we can do for a living, how much we can earn, what we can drive, how much heat to use in our homes, what kind of food we can eat, what we can’t grow in our own yards, and the list will grow until all freedom loving people revolt and take it to the streets!!!!!!!!!
katy on March 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Now that’s funny….
AprilOrit on March 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Oops, Complete7 beat me about the popular mechanics guy… Anyway, for the rest of you hoping Allah will drop the strange attitude he has towards beck, I think we’re SoL.
RightWinged on March 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM
“And it has been written. Those who have the youth have the future. So come now, children of the beast. Be strong and Shout at the Devil”
- Motley Crue
Taxpayers should form a union. It would at least confuse the obamabots for a while.
rw on March 26, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:37 PM
So child labor laws are out if they work for government. Physical education is the same as community servitude?
Feedie on March 26, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Mandatory enforced volunteerism!
Will it be enforced by Hopey/Changey’s
Temple Pillar Troopers!(Sarc)!
canopfor on March 26, 2009 at 7:37 PM
$6 billion to promote volunteerism?
Who said government work doesn’t pay?
Angry Dumbo on March 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM
As Mark Levin says, its up to us to teach our children about liberty and conservativism. My kids listen to a background of Rush, Hannity, Beck and Levin every day. And Hot Air. :)
ctmom on March 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM
can see them now, Goose-Stepping through Mainstreet, keeping us all in line with the Politburo’s policy. Heil Hitler…
DL13 on March 26, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Yeah marching around with their pants down half way passed their ass. Saying “Whassup Dog”. The silver grills, (gold is too expensive now), ear rings, nose rings etc….
They will look like a real mean army.
Offshore_Drilling on March 26, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Yet another reason I am glad that I didn’t have children. However, this might be good for McCain’s daughter, get some much needed exercise and all…..
HornetSting on March 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop both socialist consciousness and culture.
- Mao
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Dienen der Anführer.
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:42 PM
After 100 days of Obama, should we change the name of our country to reflect the banana republic we shall become?
Angry Dumbo on March 26, 2009 at 7:43 PM
It is not ok! This requirement is not in the bill now, but the Big Education Department will make rules and eventually school funding will depend on compliance.
Yes, some states do it and it is nonsense. It’s very arbitrary, with p.c. rules dictating what counts and what doesn’t and how much “an hour” is. These kids need to get an education, not an indoctrination.
Hell no it isn’t. Obama wants 50 hours a year, btw. They go to school 160ish days a year. Do the math. When are they going to A)learn and B) pursue their own interests? Like athletics? Music? Whatever? Who chauffeurs them to their ’service opportunities’?
Oh please. There is no comparison. mens sana corpore sano and all that.
Buy Danish on March 26, 2009 at 7:43 PM
I’m no lawyer… but not only does it seem to violate due process it also seems like a clear violation of the 13th amendment to me.
beancounter on March 26, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Teaching kids the importance of service and part of their education is not the reason people send their kids to school. They send them to learn how to read, write and do math, amongst other things that seem to have disappeared in the past 20+ years.
Question:
How many states still require a student to take and pass civic’s classes before they’re allowed to graduate?
Knucklehead on March 26, 2009 at 7:44 PM
I am not a Marxist.
- Karl Marx
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Is that your interpretation.
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:45 PM
LOL
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Me thinks,outstanding sneaky Liberal scam,
and a whole new industry of the making,
it looks as if the community organizers and
there henchmen,will be getting paid,by the
government!
Sumpin stinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on March 26, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Not in a free country.
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Restart the Civilian Conservation Corps, or something like it, pay a fair wage for work done, and get some jobs moving to clean up the nation’s highways, to begin with… since they are a national trash-strewn eyesore.
This would impact outward in ripples for restaurants and lunch wagons, clothing shops, gas stations, hardware stores, truck deliveries, etc., etc.
Not as volunteers, but employees.
Whose salaries spread throughout the economy.
Let people volunteer on their own time and dime for local interests.
Obama has a tin ear and grandiose delusions.
Blinded by his own bluff.
Not doing the simplest and most effective things to stimulate the stalled system, he wants to pile on follies instead of fixing the immediate problem.
He has saved 25 police academy jobs, so far.
As millions lose theirs.
Doofus-In-Chief.
profitsbeard on March 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Why would the video be removed? I’m curious.
kahall on March 26, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Hell, if we could just get a million young Conservatives to jine up, maybe we could change the world. You think?
Lincoln Cadillac on March 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM
National service is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
- Kim Jong Il
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM
In Luke 11:46 Jesus speaking says: “Woe to you also, law-experts, because you burden the people with burdens that are hard to bear, but you yourselves do not even touch these burdens with one of your fingers”.
lizzee on March 26, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Little bits at a time……
katy on Mar 26,2009 at 7:35PM.
katy: Yup,the Leftys are patient,accept Obama wants to get
the entire Liberal Utopian Grand Plan,
done in his first term!!!!!!!!!:)
canopfor on March 26, 2009 at 7:52 PM
The boss is a becker?
getalife on March 26, 2009 at 7:53 PM
As far as I am concerned, the best thing that the govenment can do is get out of the way. Those doofus’s are what caused most of the problem to begin with.
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Just for you MB4
Oldnuke on March 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Whatchu mean “banana” republic? That some kind of “monkey joke, racist!?
RightWinged on March 26, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I like it!
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Cut to the chase?
What its really about,is expanding the Liberal base,
through their use of steath,under the ruse,of volunteerism!!
canopfor on March 26, 2009 at 7:56 PM
After what Obama and the dems have done to this economy and to Edward Liddy, who the heck would volunteer.
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM
The chances of this becoming law are zero to none.
There is a legitimate government interest in high school students being taught, and high school students learning, English, Math, History, Music, vocational skills. There is no legitimate government interest in students performing service to anyone. This is incredibly bogus bullshit.
Blake on March 26, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Soylent Green Party!
dont taze me bro on March 26, 2009 at 7:58 PM
The youtube video in online.
Feedie on March 26, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I second that.
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Ironic that you state this as you continually veer off into Joy Behar territory.
MoCoM on March 26, 2009 at 8:02 PM
The keystone of the fascist doctrine is its conception of the state, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For fascism the state is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
- Benito Mussolini
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Guys, do we really need all of these Mao and Hitler quotes?
Did we all forget what B. Hussein Obama said in 2001?
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/27/smells-like-socialist-spirit/
Translation: He’s disappointed that the courts haven’t ventured in to the redistribution arena. We don’t need quotes from other fascists and socialists, Barry’s got plenty of his own.
RightWinged on March 26, 2009 at 8:03 PM
If there are few actual jobs and financial hardships, “National Service” could become a room and board + small stipend sort of thing.
/tinfoil off
Itchee Dryback on March 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Have you read the gop counter budget?
It has no numbers in it.
getalife on March 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Das Program has provisions for the voluntary servitude for senior citizens also.
It’s an all inclusive program, leading up to the National Civilian Security Force.
This is bad, real bad.
Dhuka on March 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Will the shirts be brown or black?
Bigfoot on March 26, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Absolutely boggles the freaking mind!!!
How can any sane person vote for this??? How??
Republicans??? What Republicans??? What are they thinking???!!
JellyToast on March 26, 2009 at 8:05 PM
The audacity of hope was for his campaign
Fear and demonetization will be for his reign
His candidacy was rather like that of a Henry Houdini
His presidency is shaping up to be much more like that of a Benito Mussolini
MB4 on March 26, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Woo Hoo! Both my Senators voted against it. You work so hard to raise them right it always brings a tear to your eye when the little guys grow up and do something right.
DFCtomm on March 26, 2009 at 8:07 PM
A couple of government vans…..
Seven Percent Solution on Mar 26,2009 at 7:24PM.
Seven Percent Solution:
What are you starring at,your volunteering today,
git in the F@#$%$$#%# van!ahem,hehe:)
canopfor on March 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Case in point
Some GOPers were crowing that the RNC had outraised the DNC in last month’s earnings. Obama just erased that in one week.
William Amos on March 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Heh. Arne Duncan will make it happen.
They will use federal funding to push these programs through. Longer school years means more service opportunities because China is our new role model, dontcha know.
Buy Danish on March 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM
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