Required National Service Corps - How Can Such A Bill Pass The House Without Any Media Coverage?

UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST

H.R. 1388 passed the House and is on it's way to the Senate. It's language stipulates "Required National Service" and yet our media has had nothing to say about it.

People will be working for the government without any choice, and the media has nothing to say about it?

From the American Thinker:

“Arbeit macht frei” (Work makes {a person} free) the Nazis loved to say to the “volunteers” entering the labor camps.  America’s version is called “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act” (GIVE act). HR 1388 has already passed the House and is on its way to the Senate.

You can read the final version of the House bill here. The legislation is a long string of amendments to existing laws that make it almost impossible to understand. (Really. This legislation is incomprehensible. I challenge you to click on this link and try to read the bill.)

There appears to be little volunteerism and almost no education in the bill.  But there are a lot of make-work government jobs for doing God only knows what.

For example:

SEC. 122. NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS ELIGIBLE FOR PROGRAM ASSISTANCE.

‘(a) Required National Service Corps- The recipient of a grant under section 121(a) and each Federal agency operating or supporting a national service program under section 121(b) shall, directly or through grants or subgrants to other entities, carry out or support the following national service corps, as full- or part-time corps, including during the summer months, to address unmet educational, health, veteran, or environmental needs.

In case you missed it that says “required National Service Corps.”

And the authorized benefits for these "volunteers" reads a lot like the workers’ allotments for a “people’s republic” to me:

(a) In general
The Director shall provide for members of the Civilian Community Corps to receive benefits authorized by this section.

(b) Living allowance
The Director shall provide a living allowance to members of the Corps for the period during which such members are engaged in training or any activity on a Corps project. The Director shall establish the amount of the allowance at any amount not in excess of the amount equal to 100 percent of the poverty line that is applicable to a family of two (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget and revised annually in accordance with section 9902 (2) of this title.[1]

(c) Other authorized benefits
While receiving training or engaging in service projects as members of the Civilian Community Corps, members may be provided the following benefits:

(1) Allowances for travel expenses, personal expenses, and other expenses.
(2) Quarters.
(3) Subsistence.
(4) Transportation.
(5) Equipment.
(6) Clothing.
(7) Recreational services and supplies.
(8) Other services determined by the Director to be consistent with the purposes of the Program.

Does that read like a voluntary program for, say, cleaning up the neighborhood?  Or does it seem more like directions for funding a labor camp? 

That America’s young people are not up in arms at the very idea of this bill demonstrates how ill-informed, or brain washed, the graduates of our public education system have become. 

The Senate could vote on the bill today or tomorrow. You may want to contact your senator and see if you can help stop this monstrosity. If not, the People’s Republic takes its first baby step when the Senate passes HR 1388.

It's one thing to have a draft in a time of war. But, to require non-military related service smacks of government-enforced slavery to me.

As far as I'm concerned, this is more evidence that our current government is completely out of line with the American Tradition.

UPDATE: By the way, last night I saw a commercial on TV for an organization called CityYear.org, which asks young people to give a year of service to a local community/city. It was, quite obviously, a very well-funded organization, judging by the hig quality of the advertisement.

And yet, when I look at CityYear.org website, I find an organization, founded in 1988, which seems to be mostly doing work in Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston. But now, all of the sudden, they have a national ad campaign?

Clearly, dollars have been rolling in from somewhere. Far be it from me to cast wild aspersions, but I smell Soros in this.

Couple the CityYear project with the recent Obama Pledge Drive, and I believe we may be seeing an effort by the Obamanation to soften people up for the idea of Required National Service.

If anyone knows anything more about CityYear.org, please let us know.

UPDATE: Epaminondas and Midnight Rider have both read the bill and tell me that it does NOT stipulate a "required national service".

Instead, what the bill says, in very convoluted language, is that certain government monies will be available to corporations, adademic institutions, and/or individuals, which can then, in turn, be paid back through community service.

This is still evidence of a frightening government encroachment into our lives. A maxim to remember is, the more the government gives you, the more the government OWNS you.

We, as a nation, need to stop sucking the government teat. It's fucking pathetic.