Can People’s Lobby’s citizen-initiated World Service Corps legislation pass and change the world?

                                        Dwayne Hunn

 

Are citizens sometimes ahead of their legislators?  Is America’s best resource in difficult times the character, skill, and initiative of its people?  Then one of the best answers to the increasingly dangerous problems confronting us today is in introducing and passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals in Congress. 

 

 

Are you among those confused and disillusioned with today’s handling of critical world and domestic issues?  Then act on these words:

 

This country runs on laws.  If you want to change the country, write its laws.”

 

People's Lobby’s founder Ed Koupal drummed those words into his fifty volunteer Steering Board members, who trained people throughout California and the nation to pass grassroots initiatives and make good law.

 

Today, citizens from the left to the right and deep into the middle rail about the need to change the country.  Pick a policy from the Iraq War to education, environment, trade, religion, military service, etc. and you hear Americans clamoring for change.


Where is the healthy, fresh vision for today and tomorrow?

 

The vision will come alive when we create a mission with an army of volunteers that eases our soldiers’ burdens.  That comes from passing the citizen-initiated World Service Corps Congressional proposals into law.  Got to www.worldservicecorps.us and decide if this great idea doesn’t build a safer, saner world. 

 

If the World Service Corps proposals were passed into law this year, the World Service Corps would ramp up so that six years from now one million Americans, aged 18 through 60+, would have their choice of voluntarily serving, at home or abroad, in their choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, and other similar organizations. 

 

For completing two years of service, World Service Corps members would receive two years of community college plus two years of state college tuition, the equivalent pay down of educational loans, dedicate that amount to tuition costs of a relative, or place that amount in an IRA or Medical Savings Account.

 

Fed Chair Allan Greenspan attributes our economic resiliency to the educations we planted through the 1944-51 GI Bill of Rights.  To combat economic competition, let’s expand educational opportunities to those who peacefully and productively earn it making the world a safer, better place.

 

A million Americans serving through the World Service Corps:

·        Reduces the likelihood of future Iraq’s and Vietnams. 

·        Erases the growing Ugly American image. 

·        Undercuts the recruiting of extremists. 

·        Raises America and the world’s political IQ, by working in America and the world’s classrooms of needs. 

·        Involves us in appropriate technology projects that lighten our environmental footprints. 

·        Builds understanding for fairly trading in today’s global village.

·        Gives meaning to religious phrases, by working like Christ among the needy and hurting. 

·        Provides Yanks with the patriotic teams, on which we love playing. 

·        Allows can-do Americans, who know the routine well, the opportunity to build the neighbor’s barn, not knock it down.

 

The world improves faster when America leads the way with actions, not just words.  The World Service Corps sends Americans on a mission, without the missiles.  By having a million World Service Corps members wage a cost effective war on poverty, ignorance, extremism, and misunderstanding, life becomes less costly for tomorrow’s soldiers.

 

For politicians to implement this healthy 21st century World Service Corps mission, tens of thousands must sign the on-line petition at www.worldservicecorps.us and call and write ALL elected reps --pushing them to encourage, introduce, and pass the World Service Corps legislation.

 

Get involved in initiating good law.  Help make tomorrow safer, smarter, and better.  Sign the on-line petition and read the “How to help” link at www.worldservicecorps.us. 

 

Thanks… for pushing Congress to pass legislation to give a million Americans a mission to build a healthier, safer world.