Resolution BY THE
WE, the XXXXXX, hereby proclaim our support for the
citizen initiated World Service Corps proposals www.worldservicecorps.us now
being considered in perhaps 50 Congressional offices.
WHEREAS, as of June 2005 the estimated contribution by
WHEREAS as of
March 2005
WHEREAS as of
June 2005
WHEREAS
such expenditures have drastically reduced local government’s ability to deliver
quality community service, including safety programs needed in these
increasingly dangerous times, and
WHEREAS we
have increasing needs for skilled volunteers to deal with conservation,
calamities, environmental catastrophes, educational enhancements, and
WHEREAS much of the underpinnings for today’s terror
war lies in the needs, prejudices, ignorances, and hatreds that exists in today’s global village, and
WHEREAS those underpinnings drive some of our leaders into
short sighted policies that drive our nation into expensive military
entanglements, tragedies and wars, and
Whereas such wars
cause the safety and quality of life in our local communities to be endangered
and weakened, and
WHEREAS Americans are good at entering into unknown and dangerous frontiers and using their
skills and team building abilities to peacefully and productively make life
better, and
WHEREAS this
era of terrorism places all Americans and world citizens into a new dangerous
frontier that requires innovative approaches that address needs, prejudices, ignorances, and
hatreds other than just militarily trying to overcome those global
village problems,
and
WHEREAS the spiraling growth of terrorism and the ability of terrorists to increase their recruiting streams requires a robust response, and
WHEREAS the World Service Corps proposals offer
Americans the opportunity to combat terrorism with peaceful and productive skills,
courage, and determination that Americans have always exemplified as a model to
the world, and
WHEREAS a one million strong WSC offers a
cost-effective and robust answer to the increasingly alarming and costly spread
of terrorism, and
WHEREAS such WSC service in
the classroom of the world will dramatically increase our understanding of the
world and thereby decrease the likelihood of our nation making costly policy
mistakes in the world, and
WHEREAS the WSC proposals, as reflected in the
missions of the recognizable core organizations and the other organizations of
similar efficiency that likely will be added, offers peaceful, productive,
voluntary service to Americans aged 18 and over, and
WHEREAS Marin County endorse these proposals under
the peaceful, productive uses for which the WSC is proposed and in no way
endorses the manipulation of these proposals to turn them into military uses,
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the XXXX County Board of Supervisors on
………… urges the people of the County of XXXX
to support the World Service Corps proposals (www.worldservicecorps.us), other
local governments to pass similar Resolutions, Congressional representatives
from across the nation to introduce and cosponsor the proposals, and urges
prompt passage of the proposals into law. ……
PASSED AND ADOPTED 2005, by the following vote:
AYES: SUPERVISORS
NOES: SUPERVISOR
ABSENT: NONE