Orbamawellian newspeak

National service bill to get Obama’s signature

“People who want to give back to their communities through service will get more opportunities to do so under a bill being signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama.

The $5.7 billion bill triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years, and expands ways for students and seniors to earn money for college through their volunteer work.” [emphasis mine]

Am I missing something here? Isn’t the idea of doing VOLUNTEER work supposed to be that you DON’T earn money for doing it? And, by the way, if these “volunteers” are actually earning money for their work, has anybody from the U.S. Department of Labor checked to make sure that the “volunteers” are receiving the Federally-mandated minimum wage in terms of the hours they are working in relation to the money they are earning?

I doubt it. You see–even the gunvernment has figured out a way to get around its own economically-inefficient labor laws.

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3:02 pm on April 21, 2009