National Service Lies
Christopher Lee reports on another example of how this White House fails to back up its nice words with real action:
The House denied $100 million sought for AmeriCorps yesterday, a move that backers of the program said would wipe out thousands of volunteers across the country and scuttle the community service efforts that President Bush says he supports.
Is anyone else tired of President Bush’s propensity to say that he supports something — like education, national service, and homeland security funding — and then refusing to use his considerable clout to see that promise kept?
We have seen just how effective this president can be when he choses to lobby for a priority. One wonders why he won’t use those skills on anything but irresponsible tax cuts for the affluent and wars for which our country was unprepared to handle the aftermath?
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