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The current issue of Ripon Forum<\/strong> <\/a>includes a piece I wrote on the case against AmeriCorps and other national service boondoggles.\u00a0 The Forum is published by the Ripon Society, an organization of liberal Republicans founded in 1965.\u00a0 The same issue of the magazine features articles by Bob Dole,\u00a0 George HW Bush, and Chris Shays.\u00a0 I fit right into the line-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Service Illusion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ripon Forum April\/May 2008<\/strong>
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\nJAMES BOVARD<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 National Service is one of the hottest causes of presidential candidates. Both Barack\u00a0 Obama and John McCain are gung-ho for expanding Americorps to hire a quarter million people to perform federally-orchestrated good deeds.\u00a0 Former presidential candidate Senator Chris Dodd wanted to make community service mandatory for high school students and boost AmeriCorps to a million members.\u00a0 John Edwards also favored making national service mandatory.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But does America have a shortage of government workers?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AmeriCorps is the epitome of contemporary federal good intentions.\u00a0 AmeriCorps, which currently has roughly 75,000 paid recruits, has been very popular in Washington in part because it puts a smiley face on Uncle Sam at a time when many government policies are deeply unpopular.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AmeriCorps has consumed more than $4 billion in tax dollars since its creation in 1993. During the Clinton administration, AmeriCorps members helped run a program in Buffalo that gave children $5 for each toy gun they brought in — as well as a certificate praising their decision not to play with toy guns.\u00a0 In San Diego, AmeriCorps members busied themselves collecting used bras and panties for a homeless shelter. In Los Angeles, AmeriCorps members busied themselves foisting unreliable ultra-low-flush toilets on poor people.\u00a0 In New Jersey, AmeriCorps members enticed middle-class families to accept subsidized federal health insurance for their children.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President George W. Bush was a vigorous supporter of AmeriCorps in his 2000 campaign, and many Republicans expected that his team would make the program a pride to the nation.\u00a0 But the program is still an administrative train wreck.\u00a0 In 2002, it illegally spent more than $64 million than Congress appropriated \u2013 and yet was rewarded with a higher budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bush\u2019s first AmeriCorps chief, Leslie Lenkowsky, started out as a visionary idealist who promised great things from the federal program.\u00a0 But, when he resigned in 2003, Lenkowsky conceded that AmeriCorps is just \u201canother cumbersome, unpredictable government bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Though AmeriCorps abounds in \u201cfeel good\u201d projects, it has never provided credible evidence of benefit to the United States.\u00a0 Instead, it relies on Soviet bloc-style accounting — merely counting labor inputs and pretending that the raw numbers prove grandiose achievements. The Office of Management and Budget concluded in 2003 that \u201cAmeriCorps has not been able to demonstrate results. Its current focus is on the amount of time a person serves, as opposed to the impact on the community or participants.\u201d The General Accounting Office noted that AmeriCorps \u201cgenerally reports the results of its programs and activities by quantifying the amount of services AmeriCorps participants perform.\u201d GAO criticized AmeriCorps for failing to make any effort to measure the actual effect of its members\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most AmeriCorps success claims have no more credibility than a political campaign speech.\u00a0\u00a0 The vast majority of AmeriCorps programs are “self-evaluated\u201d: the only evidence AmeriCorps possesses of what a program achieved is what the grant recipients claim. One of the agency\u2019s consultants encouraged AmeriCorps programs to inflate the number of claimed beneficiaries: \u201cIf you feel your program affects a broad group of individuals who may not be receiving personal services from members…\u00a0 then list the whole community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The advocates of a vast national service program assume that there are legions of unmet needs that the new government workers could perform.\u00a0 But the reason such needs are currently unmet is that politicians have either considered them not part of government\u2019s obligation or because meeting the need is not considered worth the cost to taxpayers.\u00a0 There are hundreds of thousands of government agencies across the land, counting federal, state, and local governments.\u00a0 There are already more than 20 million people working for government in this country.\u00a0 Yet national service advocates talk as if the public sector is starved of resources.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 National Service programs are more profitable for politicians than for citizens.\u00a0 USA Today noted in 1998 that AmeriCorps\u2019 “T-shirted brigade is most well known nationally as the youthful backdrop for White House photo ops.”\u00a0\u00a0 President Bush politically exploited AmeriCorps members almost as often as did Clinton.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some congressmen also profiteer off AmeriCorps\u2019 image. After some congressmen showed up one day in March 2004 to hammer some nails at a Habitat for Humanity house-building project in Washington, AmeriCorps issued a press release hyping their participation in the good deed. The press release named eight members of Congress and noted, \u201cWorking alongside the elected officials were two dozen AmeriCorps members from the D.C. chapter of Habitat for Humanity and AmeriCorps.\u201d The home they helped build was to be given to a single mother of three. Photos from the appearance could add flourishes to newsletters to constituents or for reelection campaigns.\u00a0 Congressmen also benefit when they announce AmeriCorps grants to organizations in their districts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some national service advocates insist that AmeriCorps\u2019 failings should not be held against proposals to expand the federal role in service because their preferred program would leave it up to communities to decide how to use the new \u201cvolunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But if programs are not centrally controlled, local \u201cinitiatives\u201d will soon transform it into a national laughingstock.\u00a0\u00a0 This happened with CETA, a make-work program that was expanded to its doom under President Carter.\u00a0 CETA bankrolled such job-creating activities as building an artificial rock in Oregon for rock climbers to practice on, conducting a nude sculpture class in Miami where aspiring artists practiced Braille reading on each other, and sending CETA workers door-to-door in Florida to recruit people for food stamps.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More than 60 million Americans work as unpaid volunteers each year. Even if AmeriCorps was expanded to a quarter million recruits, it would amount to less than one half of one percent of the total of people who donate their time for what they consider good causes.\u00a0 And there is no reason to assume that paying \u201cvolunteers\u201d multiplies productivity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rather than expanding national service programs, Congress should pull the plug on AmeriCorps.\u00a0 At a time of soaring deficits, the federal government can no longer afford to spend half a billion dollars a year on a bogus volunteer program whose results have been AWOL since the last century.<\/p>\n

–###–<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave, 2006), Feeling Your Pain (St. Martin\u2019s 2000), Lost Rights (St. Martin\u2019s, 1994), and other books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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