Bachmann’s son signed on with AmeriCorps program she abhors

Her notions of AmeriCorps and national service are outlandish and paranoid. Re-education camps? Really? Could she be talking about AmeriCorps*NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) campuses, which have been in exisence for many years? For the record, NCCC members engage in disaster response and recovery work, and when there’s none of that to be had, they do things like tutor children in reading. Major supporters of AmeriCorps aside from the current President: John McCain, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell and the list goes on. She should READ the Serve America Act and stop relying on right wingnuts to feed her talking points.

Oh, and best of luck to her son, Harrison, on a great year teching, and thanks to him for his service.

It calls to mind Proverbs 22:6 Train [teach] a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. (NIV) So either “old” means older than Harrison or……………………….

Perhaps Harrison is a secret plant, designed to report back to the Mother Ship about the re-education camps? A mole, as it were? Will he “pretend” to be brainwashed, all the time sending back secret messages on scraps of toilet paper that tell of the horrors of the re-education camp? Or will he stand up at whatever training sessions that are held and yell “liar” and “socialist” in an attempt to shut down Teach for America?

Hahahahahaha!

This is priceless. I wonder if she is still going to speak with her son. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588

TFA is NOT part of AmeriCorp. It is an independent organization founded and run by Wendy Kopp. The only connection they have with AmeriCorp is that they receive grant money to supplement their teachers’ salaries. The volunteer teachers are primarily paid as all school teachers are…..by the district or school they are teaching for. You really need to get your facts straight.

you can always count on your children to do the opposite of what you want them to do. to all you liberals, what do you think your daughters are doing right now? are you sure? and your sons, are they selling dope? are you sure?the jails are full of people whose parents didn’t want them to do the things they did. at least bachman’s kid is doing something useful.

One of the reasons so many feel disconnected from their country is a lack of required national service. However, besides military service, the options of an agricultural service, urban service, and the various established ones, three years of some kind of service should be required before admission to a college or university accepting public funding. National service would help avert illegal aliens by having an agricultural service, give youth a chance to experience somewhere else before deciding on a college major, allow them to experience independence, interact with others outside their cliques, and, most importantly, allow our young men to grow by moving them a couple of states away from their mothers and get them out of the basements. I overcame a lot of problems in my family by enlisting: I achieved an education, financial security, and learned to appreciate my citizenship. While I think our all-volunteer military has done an exceptional job since 1974, I also think restoration of national service will restore many of the aspects we seem to be missing in our national culture: a sense of belonging, involvement, hope, and cohesion.

Uh, akw, you need to get YOUR facts straight.

From the Teach for America web site:

“Teach For America is currently a member of AmeriCorps, the national service network. Through this relationship, our corps members who have not served previously as AmeriCorps members are eligible for the following AmeriCorps benefits”….

Is it possible the lad came under the influence of his father and not the wicked witch of the north?

Hey Jim, since you asked, my oldest daughter has been married for five years and works for a major St. Paul company, my next daughter is married and lives in the U.K., married a scientist from India who works for Pfizer. My son teaches special ed. I taught them to be tolerant, be kind, be productive, be liberal. None of them smokes, drinks, nor uses drugs nor ever has. I will hold them up against anyone as solid American citizens. Raised by a liberal.

AmeriCorps is one of the greatest service programs ever created since the CCC – which makes sense as it was based on the CCC concept.
This article gives me hope that even those who were born of parents who have no concept of what is happening to our society today have some sense of the fact we all CAN and NEED to work on making a difference!

You have to wonder if Bachmann’s going to disown her son! Personally, I think it’s great that he’s volunteering to do work with Americorps.

And to Jim above: What makes you think that only liberals have kids that get in trouble. What an idiotic statement! Conservatives run into the same problems with their children. In fact, it’s a bit ludicrous you’d even have the cajones to post a comment like that in the wake of the recent goings on of Senator John Ensign and Governor Sanford — both Republicans.

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Whoever said TFA is not part of AmeriCorp is dead wrong.

If you go there website, the Americorp symbol is in the bottom right.

On the “National Partner” page on its website, Americorps is mentioned twice.

Once under “Current National Funders”

And again under “Federal Government”

http://www.teachforamerica.org/

As a returned peace corps volunteer, an employee with the Corporation for National and Community Service (the organization that oversees the AmeriCorps program), and a community volunteer who just came home a 1/2 hour ago from making dinner for residents of the local Ronald McDonald house with 12 other members of my community, I find this article to be simply PRICELESS! Thank you Chris Steller, write your heart out!

Can the right wing nuts get any sillier?

No, but last night I went to Congressman Peter DiFazio’s health Care Forum in Grants Pass Oregon, and some of these rwn’s are becoming dangerous. I was accosted and attacked by several rwns, mostly female, but one old WWII vintage guy jabbing his finger in to my chest until I told him that he really needed to stop, that poking me was not OK. He was so angry and so confused by all of the hate propoganda that he was totally irrational. Some of those people were very scary. I truly think some of the worse rwn’s have totally flipped out, and their potential for violence is barely under control.
DiFazio did his normal great job of handling the crazies. Very calmly making them stay quiet and act, if not like grownups, at least out of the infant stage. Great job Peter, we were proud of you. Even our local paper (Medfrod Oregon Mail Tribune -now owned by the Wall Street Journal boys, had to compliment him, as much as they tried not to, but the reporter slipped it by the gatekeepers.

Jim,
I Think you might have missed the point of the article. She’s against TFA and it’s just ironic that her son joined it. This isn’t a Libral/Conservative thing. There are kids on both sides of the politcal spectrum that end up doing things their parents didn’t raise them to do.We need to get pass this them & us thing that is going on. This article is about a woman who always seems to put her foot in her mouth nothing more nothing less.

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America (and the entire world for that matter) has lost its way of teaching its children. What we need most in our great nation is to revert back to some old ways of life. Teaching children about money would be a great place to start.

Kids need to learn that money isn’t water, it’s not air – and while there is an abundance of it, it should be and MUST be carefully budgeted and tracked. Sure every kid needs to have fun. That’s part of being a kid right? But in schools we teach drug education, sex education and even driver’s education but not a single class on financial education.

Over 75% of kid’s graduate high school without the basic understanding of how to use a checkbook or how credit cards work – even worse these same kids often graduate college with at least $10,000.00 of credit card debt.

Our schools aren’t going to teach our kids about money, our country isn’t going to teach our kids about money – if our children are going to learn about how to use money and be good at it, we , the parents are going to have to do it.

Monetary responsibility is a sure sign of mental maturity. Plain and simple – if a kid careful and smart with his money, no matter how much he or she has, that same kid is much less likely to be a problem in society.

To learn more visit http://www.dollarcampsystem.com about how you can teach your kids about money from home.

Her son is trying to gain information for the right. He is going to find out if there is any truth about our current president recruiting for a civilian armed force. My HOPE is that there is nothing wrong with AmeriCorps. My suspision is that these children will be mislead and the taxpayers are paying the bill.

I really do HOPE he finds out something really soon.

“I would like to create positive influence in my community, have a hand in changing the world, and make a difference to those around me. I’m passionate about serving youth, counseling those with addictions, feeding the hungry, and educating others on the importance of caring for our environment. I feel that AmeriCorps is the best avenue for me to -get my feet wet- regarding the change I want to be.”

When I began my AmeriCorps Service year, the above statement was my motivation. I wanted to “be the change”. During my service year I tutored 35 GED students, watched the first male in an immigrant household graduate highschool, Mentored 100′s of kids battling with addiction, walked with two girls as they forgave their rapist, planted 450 native plants along a salmon habitat, restored a historical site, built a single mom a house, raised $13,000 for a skate park, Built a community dog park, helped foster and home 250 unwanted pets and fulfilled my desire to SERVE!

Those of you who have served with AmeriCorps, and have disliked your term of service. The BLAME lies on your own head. If you were sitting around doing nothing, why didn’t you go OUT THERE and Find some one who needed help?

Your service year is what YOU make it. You can choose to use your hands for service or for blogging to the world about how you failed the rest of us by NOT making this experience all that it can be.

Meanwhile, I will serve my community and enjoy every minute!

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I know her son and I believe that he will make the right choices, according to the Bible. He is very smart and willing to help others. He should do great. I will have him in my prayers. He really is a great kid.

Um, big deal. Her son is an adult and can do what he wants. She can not stop him from being in the “Teaching for America” program.

What we need is “separation of school and state”. Government schools promote government, just as Catholic schools promote Catholicism, Jewish schools promote Judaism, etc.

An increasingly centralized bureaucratic government monopoly is doomed to failure, as is obvious from US experience. When you force s.o. to attend school, tell them the one school they have to go to, tell them what they have to study, and don’t require any direct payments, then what do you expect?

US colleges, on the other hand, are considered to be good overall. They do the opposite: they don’t force you to go there; they don’t tell you which school you have to attend; they don’t tell you what you have to major in, and you have to pay directly for some of the costs. Get it?