Comments on: The Volunteerism Scandals Hollywood Won’t Be Broadcasting – by Michelle Malkin

By: bearone7777

bearone7777 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:08:51 +0000

Hello,
Sounds a little bit like this is another A.C.O.R.N. mess, and we the citizens of this antion are having to put up with this crap once again in a org. that Barack "INSANE' Obama says he thinks is doing a great job, and why should he not say that. He most likely is getting kick-backs from them.

Thank you,
Larry D. Crumbley

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:44:06 +0000

In short we are really in deep crap? Somedayit might be me that will need a gov't job from Obama's” volunteerism” efforts? Yeah, why not? Let's see …349,000 dollars per gov't job….now that's change I can believe in!

By: scottyga

scottyga — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:17:07 +0000

The unemployment rate is the highest it has been in 30 years and if it keeps climbing will reach depression era levels.

Single family home repos are at record highs.

Military mothers and or dads are trying to take care of their kids while their spouse is off fighting a war somewhere.

Adequate healthcare at affordable prices continue to become a thing of the past while the Insurance companies lobby to keep premium hikes cliimbing.

Elderly shut ins with medical conditions are a growing segment of our population.

There are more children living in poverty in this country than ever before.

While church groups have always risen to the occasion, they too are feeling the effect of lower contributions from the congregations and are being forced to cut staff and projects.

In short, we are in really deep crap, and if there was ever a time to step up I would say that time is now.

Dismiss this as partisan BS and put new use to the words, "Lets Roll".

Because someday it might be you..............

By: LindaRivera

LindaRivera — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:12:15 +0000

Of course, volunteerism is wonderful. And Americans love to volunteer! The big concern which was not mentioned here, is that this 'voluntary' service will be made mandatory, something which is done in communist countries.

And what is the purpose of Obama's Civilian National Security Force?

Obama: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y

By: Melinda

Melinda — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:28 +0000

Strange piece for FPM. I think the problem is that it confuses efforts to encourage volunteerism with inherent problems of fiscal and programmatic mismanagement of non-profit corporations. What is the point of the article? Is it that American Citizens should not volunteer? That non-profits who mismanage should have their heads removed? That Demi Moore is an idiot? I'm just not sure. From a conservative perspective, volunteerism is a wonderful thing. If the effort is to expose mismanagement of non-profits, it doesn't really do the job, nor does it address how exactly whatever mismanagement has occurred can be cured (aside from bashing the effort to encourage volunteeris…. huh????).

By: cadbad

cadbad — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:45:32 +0000

Creepy, Winston. There, there, now, wipe that tear from your eye, big brother doesn't really love you, he hates you. Have a nice day:)

By: seek

seek — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:08:37 +0000

Michelle Malkin is the Tracy Flick (see “Election”) of American conservatism, all brass and arrogance. The fact that a few film stars attend charity balls is hardly a news story much less a scandal. I realize the Culture War Right is desperate to manufacture the appearance of “immorality” in Hollywood, but this is too transparent.

By: scottyga

scottyga — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:23:15 +0000

I wish politics would take a rest on this one.

The whole idea of this is to find something or someone you care about and volunteer to help either by donating time, money or both. (Seems to me if you are against big government this would actually be a great solution btw).

I went and looked at the website for the sponsorship which is:

iparticipate.org -

The most popular searches were: military,health,animals,tutoring, seniors, nature and education.

Examining the various listings in my area, it turns out that most of the organizations providing opportunities were either locally based, or exist underneath the umbrella of much larger groups such as the evil "United Way".

Having Hollywood dedicate a week of plots that center around volunteerism is a refreshing change from what normally disgusts me most about network television; ie plots that revolve around violence, sex, greed and voyerism.

As a last note, volunteerism has been around forever, and has been something to admire independent of politics, whether it was through the teachings of Jesus 2000 years ago, (Mathew 25: 31--46), George H.W. Bush in 1992 with his thousand points of light initiative, or now Obama with his call to national service.

Unfortunately there has always been someone on the other side who had something to lose and therefore spent most of there time trying to derail the efforts.