People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals builds another 21st century team that gives America and the world the personnel to run a winning variety of plays against an innovative opponent. The AWSC will do good while simultaneously doing what Roman General and Gladiator Maximus was advised: � ���"Win the Crowd.� �� �
The legislators and President that fields this winning team will leapfrog the world into a higher realm of public policy game playing, rational discourse, and civilized action that will improve the world for all its billions. Civilization has moved Roman crowds from cheering Gladiators butchering each other to refereed football games. The 21st century needs to build armies that field fresh, special peaceful warriors onto the fields of development rather than warfare.
What are the AWSC Congressional Proposals?
If enacted in this Congress, each year for the next seven years, approximately 140,000 additional Americans per year would voluntarily choose to serve in their choice of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, etc. By the seventh year one million American World Service Corps volunteers, or less than .5th of 1% of those aged 18-70+, would annually serve for a year or two at home or abroad in the aforementioned and other existing governmental and non-governmental organizations. After 20 years, Congress could consider sun setting the AWSC legislation.
Consequently, twenty-one million American volunteers over the ensuing twenty-seven years would address poverty, climate change, ignorance, and hatreds, while raising our public policy IQ.
Upon completion of service, volunteers would receive their choice of:
- Two years of community plus two years of state college tuition, approximately $16,000.
- Equivalent educational loan pay off or contribution to community educational scholarship fund.
- Equivalent investment in Medical or IRA Accounts.
- Equivalent amount usable as a home down payment.
- Equivalent amount taken as a tax credit.
- Plus a service completion grant of $250 times the number of months served, equivalent to what a PCV receives upon service completion.
All of the above would be transferable to those of the volunteer's choosing.
Traditional and non-traditional means of financing the AWSC are outlined at http://www.worldservicecorps.us/financing_awsc.htm
An evolved WPA & CCC when it's needed
Americans are hurting for work. They are hurting because they lacked knowledge of world and domestic needs and, consequently, allowed simplistic and costly public policies to control our lives. Those policies broke our economy. Only by involving millions of Americans in the classroom of domestic and international needs will Americans begin to regain the visionary actions that once made us the envy of the world.
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