One page summary draft 3-10-07
Imagine…
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The victories they could achieve against poverty, disease,
global climate change, natural and manmade disasters, etc. Had we had an AWSC in place, we would have
rebuilt the devastation and displacements of Katrina, even a feeble FEMA would
not hindered its ongoing work and skill.
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Other nations replicating
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How the national psyches that too
often turn to hatreds, genocides, and wars to address concerns would begin
understanding and using smarter people and resources to spread peace and
prosperity.
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How much smarter our public
policies would be with so many Americans intensely involved in improving
What
is the AWSC?
If passed
in this Congress, after seven years of ramping up,
Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated American World Service Corps Congressional
Proposals would have one million Americans serving nation and world through the
Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without
Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and
state Conservation Corps, etc., addressing a world of needs, reducing the
hatred fired at our soldiers, building stable nations via do-good, can-do
diplomacy, and making our public policy smarter by the day.
Financial incentives for volunteers include two year of community and
two years of state college tuition, or the equivalent placed into one’s medical
savings or IRA accounts. The annual cost
for each AWSC volunteer would be $20,000 – 40,000 per year, and would reduce
our annual per person military expenditure by probably several hundred thousand
per military person per year. When
hidden costs are included, we spend $600,000 per year to maintain our soon to
be 1.5 million person military. The AWSC
legislation proposes revenue streams to pay for this cost-effective and
military cost-reducing AWSC program come from: 1) Tax revenues; 2) Public web
site listing non-tax paying corporations donations to underwrite AWSC cost; 3)
Public web site listing donations from Forbes Richest 400 Billionaires; 4)
Foundation grants; 5) Minuscule import levy on the developed nations with which
we run a significant trade deficit.
A more detailed AWSC summary is
at http://worldservicecorps.us/peoples%20lobby%20has.htm
Learn more and read the proposals
at www.WorldServiceCorps.us
Some
supporters: http://worldservicecorps.us/supporters.htm
Some
coverage: http://www.worldservicecorps.us/coverage.htm
Some TV,
radio, powerpoint http://www.worldservicecorps.us/television_radio.htm
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The proposed American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals http://www.WorldServiceCorps.us
strengthens