Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) likes to fear-monger. She's always searching for any wedge issue to exploit. From members of Congress holding Anti-American views to secret plans create a one-world currency to urging conservatives to not participate in the census because the government would use it as a tool to round up conservatives.
When Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) introduced a bill to expand AmeriCorps she characterized this bill as creating re-education camps for US children.
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically-correct forums. As a parent, I would have a very, very difficult time seeing my children do this.
Listen here:
Of course, the truth is that AmeriCorps is a government program that pays young people to do things like clean up parks and teach inner city kids.
The irony of all this is just scrumptious. Her son, Harrison, has joined AmeriCorps. Harrison joined Teach for America which is a part of AmeriCorps. Apparently, he joined before his Mom's rant. Thanksgiving is going to be a bit awkward at the Bachmann household this fall, don't you think?
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) likes to fear-monger. She's always searching for any wedge issue to exploit. From members of Congress holding Anti-American views to secret plans create a one-world currency to urging conservatives to not participate in the census because the government would use it as a tool to round up conservatives.
