After reading this next piece, I no longer believe in the intentions of the program (just as I no longer believe in the UN). Read the pieces carefully and note the tone.
Also see: A Peace Corp Draft
"A world of needs, a dwindling Peace Corps; Call goes forth to rethink, revive mission JFK launched" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | April 19, 2009
QUERÉTARO, Mexico - .... Budget constraints are forcing the agency to cut another 400 volunteers, as post-9/11 security costs and the global drop in the value of the dollar strain the Peace Corps' resources....
See how destructive a lie can be?
Obama, who made national service a theme of his campaign, has called for doubling the size of the Peace Corps, and is expected to sign the Edward M. Kennedy National Service Act, a sweeping bill that includes a Peace Corps expansion.
Related: The Kennedy-Kerry Draft
But Peace Corps supporters note that several presidents before Obama have made the same request, only to see the agency's shoestring budget be flatlined in congressional budget negotiations. "We spend more on the military marching bands," said Mark Gearan, who was director of the Peace Corps under former president Bill Clinton. "This is 1 percent of 1 percent [of the federal budget]."
Hey, that's the balance of peace and war in AmeriKa!!!
TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS for WARS (and war-looters) and a palm pfffft for peace!
While some programs may still reflect the 1960s model of young college graduates living in mud huts and digging irrigation ditches, reformers are calling for more programs like one underway in Mexico. There, highly educated scientists and economists are providing technical help to Mexican agencies. The effort is structured to allow the country's government to run its own programs without appearing to be a charity case of the United States.
Oh, do I SMELL a North American Union being built?
Retirees and mid-career professionals are increasingly applying to the Peace Corps.... Byron Battle, the country director in Mexico and former director in Mali, wishes the Peace Corps would expand to India, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Indonesia and - when it's deemed safe - to Pakistan. Other officials would add Vietnam and Brazil to the list.
Mark Schneider, who directed the Peace Corps during the last two years of the Clinton administration, hopes volunteers will be sent back to Haiti, where security worries forced the suspension of the Peace Corps there in 2005. "You've got to make sure that the places they're living and working make sense," Schneider said.
Related: Clinton Approves of Coup in Haiti
Meanwhile, others wonder why the Peace Corps is still in Caribbean vacation spots, or in Romania and Bulgaria - both of which are now in the European Union, and could look closer to home for developmental help. The Peace Corps sends English teachers to China, but Strauss believes that China - which owns a great deal of US debt - should be able to pay for the teachers, many of whom work at universities....
But many volunteers say it's difficult to bring about creative solutions because the Peace Corps fails to provide resources that many church groups and private aid organizations have at their disposal. The Peace Corps mission is to provide people - not cash - so volunteers must raise money to pay for even the smallest expenditures. In one African nation, Peace Corps volunteers completed a project to grow more food, but did not have the $200 needed to build a fence to keep out hungry goats....
And think of the TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS that have been LOOTED in name of wars and bank bailouts, folks. Seriously fucked-up priorities here in AmeriKa!
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But then again, it is all about the globalist agenda and not helping people -- and the paper proves it:
"In Mexico, demand increases for specialization" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | April 19, 2009
SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico - Susan Quackenbush sits behind her desk at a Mexican government office, examining environmental data and images of Mexico's endangered wetlands. Her colleague, Sandy Jimenez, helps doctoral students prepare English-language papers for scientific journals. Shane Runquist is a specialist in geographic information systems, and went to Mexico to assist agencies in interpreting geographic data for zoning and municipal planning.
Yeah, good thing American kids and society don't need such things, 'eh?
Ready to join them are new recruits to the Mexico program - a mid-career economist and State Department veteran, several PhDs, and a contingent of retirees eager to accept subsistence wages to work with foreign government agencies. This is the new face of the Peace Corps: older - often retired - volunteers, many with years of professional training or advanced degrees, who work with foreign government agencies to advance environmental and scientific goals on their own.
Need I even say it? So much for helping the poor, 'eh?
It's HELP the NEW WORLD ORDER now!!!
Launched in 2005, the Peace Corps Mexico program is a prototype, supporters say, of what the volunteer program should be in many parts of the world. "I think of it as a diversification - a pilot program that could work in many countries," said Byron Battle, country director for Peace Corps Mexico.
And YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS to PILOT PROGRAMS, folks: they NEVER GO AWAY, they JUST GET EXPANDED!!!!
While there is still a place for the traditional Peace Corps program, with "kids living in an African village," the Mexico program could be replicated in other parts of Latin America and in Asia, where developing nations are more hopeful of specialized assistance than an eager pair of hands.
So it's not really a Peace Corp anymore, is it?
Under the Mexico plan, the country's government reviewed the resumes of Peace Corps-approved applicants, and selected a team of economists and ecologists to work with its own environmental protection agencies. The Mexico program requires five years' experience - and, preferably, a master's degree - for participation.
The average age of a volunteer in Mali, where the Boston-born Battle was also country director, was 24. In Mexico, it is 48 (including one 79-year-old), the result of increased Peace Corps recruitment through professional organizations and the AARP.
And thus shutting out the youth who are idealistic, eager, and enthusiastic.
Hey, there is ALWAYS the MILITARY, kiddo -- and you are excused if you think that's where the society is channeling you because its the truth. You like bugles?
While volunteers perform some field work - married couple Ben and Buffy Lenth, both Colorado ecologists, routinely go into the Sierra Gorda mountains to conduct environmental tests - the Mexico-based volunteers spend much time in offices, helping Mexican officials run their own programs.
Jimenez, who describes herself as "well into my 60s," pictured herself "in a shack, in the middle of Africa" - perhaps teaching villagers how to grow vegetables - when she decided to join the Peace Corps. Instead, she goes to a government research center, helping advanced-degree students on scholarly papers.
Meanwhile, OUR SCHOOLS HERE are GETTING WHACKED with CUTS!!!
WTF, America?
And the PEACE CORP now works for the OPPRESSIVE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT, huh? What about the POOR and not the advanced elite types, hmm?
This PROVES that NOTHING GOVERNMENT DOES is either for its declared or intended outcomes. Can't be.
The Peace Corps' Mexico approach not only augurs well for a successful project - programs are more likely to endure if they are seen as locally run - but for better diplomacy, Battle said.
So HOW DOES IT FEEL to be a TOOL of GOVERNMENT, kiddo?
Yeah, yeah, I know, you wanted to help people.
Like people in many countries, Mexicans are skittish about US influence; Marcial Bonilla, a Mexican official with the country's science ministry, said locals in San Luis Potosi worried that the first group of Peace Corps volunteers were CIA agents. And volunteers said many Mexicans were wary of being lectured by their more powerful northern neighbor....
Yeah, well, that is a WHOLE OTHER ASPECT to the program, isn't it?
Of course, if we did run CIA agents in there the government and MSM would be forthright and tell us. Not like they would provide cover stories or anything.
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