Area : NIGHT_SHIFT_CP
Date : Sep 16 '95, 23:33
From : Ed Fischang, 976:1772/4
To   : All
Subj : Americorp


 * Forwarded from area "Patriot.Net.WashDC" (PN_WASHDC)
 * Originally from: RIC DUNCAN (976:1777/1)
 *              to: ALL
 *            date: 14 Sep 95  21:29:00

HMMM, forced public service is part of the Communist platform....and
down here in Texas I hear some public schools have MANDATORY public
service.

Subject: Certainly his kind of project!!


VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL
===================

President Clinton's costly project, AmeriCorps, continues to raise
eyebrows in conservative circles.  As Human Events reported July 21
(page 4), the volunteer service program's $1.1-million grant to ACORN
Housing Corporation (AHC), a subsidiary of the liberal Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), was being investigated
by its own inspector general.  It was suspected that federal tax
money, granted to AHC to finance 42 AmeriCorps volunteers, was
actually being used to fund ACORN's leftist political advocacy.

In a recent letter to members of Congress, AmeriCorps CEO Eli Segal -
who will soon be replaced by former Sen. Harris Wofford (D.-Pa.),
pending Senate confirmation - announced that the grant to AHC has been
terminated and that AmeriCorps will seek reimbursement of funds
previously advanced. According to Segal, the investigation revealed "a
pattern of conduct on the part of AHC to assist ACORN - conduct that
violates our regulations."  With this new information -along with a
just completed General Accounting Office audit detailing an average
cost for AmeriCorps "volunteers" of up to $43,000 per annum,
congressional members can now proceed with defunding the President's
pet project.

Source: Human Events
Capital Briefs
August 4, 1995, p.4
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 * Origin: Mad Dog North  Manson, WA USA (976:1772/4)

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