{"id":7562,"date":"2014-09-22T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T01:39:00","slug":"wash-times-americorps-birthday-bash-baloney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/22\/wash-times-americorps-birthday-bash-baloney\/","title":{"rendered":"Wash. Times: AmeriCorps Birthday Bash Baloney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7564\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052-666x800.jpg\" alt=\"9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052\" width=\"350\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052-666x800.jpg 666w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/9_222014_b1bovardlgamericors8201_s877x1052.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/sep\/22\/bovard-americorps-birthday-bash-buncombe\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, September 23, 2014<\/h3>\n<h2>AmeriCorps birthday bash baloney<\/h2>\n<p><em>A paltry record and statistical illusions cannot be ignored<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by James Bovard<\/p>\n<p>President Obama and former President Bill Clinton were surrounded by a swarm of gray-shirted devotees Sept. 12 as they celebrated the 20th birthday of AmeriCorps on the South Lawn of the White House. Mr. Obama, Mr. Clinton and other speakers touted AmeriCorps as one of the greatest moral triumphs of the modern era. But the lofty rhetoric could not sweep the program\u2019s paltry record under the rug.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama boasted that AmeriCorps\u2019 75,000 members \u201care doing their part to help make America safer and healthier, and more fair and more just.\u201d However, Mr. Obama\u2019s notion of justice rarely extends beyond his political self-interest. AmeriCorps recently commenced a new program to send its members into immigration courts to help the flood of recent Central American children who crossed the southern border to avoid deportation. Perhaps next year Obama will announce a new AmeriCorps program to aid school districts that are being thrown into conniptions to meet federal demands for special treatment for the favored \u201cundocumented aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AmeriCorps announced a new partnership with HUD \u2014 the Affordable Housing AmeriCorps. A hundred AmeriCorps members \u201cwill build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to assist, inform, educate, and engage tenants living in privately owned, HUD-assisted properties when they are at risk of losing affordability protections or rental assistance.\u201d AmeriCorps members will also be detailed to hoe community gardens and provide baby sitting (\u201cday care\u201d) for the residents. Rather than straighten out HUD programs, AmeriCorps will organize HUD-subsidized tenants to demand more benefits. The new corps will do nothing to curb the damage that Section 8 continues unleashing on cities and suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>In the farm bill passed earlier this year, Congress prohibited federally funded food-stamp recruiting, but the Obama administration is ignoring the new law. AmeriCorps has a long and controversial history of food-stamp recruiting. The chief of one of its crown-jewel programs, the Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE), was sent to prison for misusing federal funds intended for food-stamp outreach. (I alerted AmeriCorps\u2019 inspector general to the grantee\u2019s squirrelly explanations after I visited MACE headquarters in the Mississippi Delta.) When I interviewed AmeriCorps chief Harris Wofford (an honored guest at the Sept. 12 ceremony) in 1999, I asked how food-stamp recruiting meshed with his claim that AmeriCorps promoted self-reliance. Mr. Wofford replied, \u201cA self-reliant citizen knows what their [sic] opportunities are and figures out how to make use of those opportunities.\u201d <strong>The new key to self-reliance is knowing the address of the welfare office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AmeriCorps currently partners with USDA to finance the National Anti-Hunger and Opportunity Corps to boost the number of food-aid recipients. According to USDA, an organization is not engaged in recruiting unless it seeks \u201cto persuade an individual who has made an informed choice not to apply for food stamps to change his or her decision and apply.\u201d This sounds more like a definition of entrapment, but it permits USDA to continue merrily scorning congressional intent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama declared that \u201cAmeriCorps is as effective today as it\u2019s ever been.\u201d This should not have been a bragging point. AmeriCorps announced that it is launching a new \u201cRecord of Accomplishment\u201d form for AmeriCorps members to \u201cdetail their experience\u201d and \u201cstandardize how the federal government reports on the activities of AmeriCorps members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cRecord of Accomplishment\u201d will be as reliable as almost all of AmeriCorps\u2019 success claims for the past 20 years. Most AmeriCorps programs are \u201cself-evaluated\u201d \u2014 the only evidence the agency possesses of what a program achieved is what grant recipients claim.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Management and Budget groused 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 GAO hammered AmeriCorps a few years ago for using performance measurements that \u201cdo not demonstrate results\u201d and are \u201cpoorly aligned\u201d with stated goals. GAO was chagrined that \u201cnone of the measures currently used by [AmeriCorps] measure the quality of service provided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the agency clings to its statistical illusions. AmeriCorps chief Wendy Spencer told the White House audience that AmeriCorps members have \u201ccommitted 1.2 billion hours of service to get things done for America\u201d since 1994. How do you \u201ccommit\u201d an hour of service? Ms. Spencer\u2019s tortured syntax is a clue to the agency\u2019s shaky record. AmeriCorps\u2019 latest self-vindication only measures the number of hours clocked by government employees.<\/p>\n<p>When AmeriCorps was created, some critics suspected that it would be a steppingstone to nationwide compulsory service. In a 1997 speech, Mr. Clinton announced that America needs \u201ccitizen servants \u2026 We need an era of big citizenship.\u201d In his comments, Mr. Clinton praised Maryland and the District of Columbia for making \u201cservice\u201d mandatory for any student seeking a high school diploma. But permitting politicians to seize arbitrary power to dictate what activities are sufficiently virtuous is incompatible with a free society. Regardless, some liberals are invoking AmeriCorps to drum up support for dragooning all young Americans for a year to instill them with proper values.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Globe reported that AmeriCorps advocates hope the \u201cnostalgic celebration will spur new funding\u201d for AmeriCorps. Mr. Obama and others still hope to bloat the program up to a quarter-million members. After 20 years,<strong> it is time to admit that America can no longer afford a politically contrived \u201cnational service\u201d charade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>James Bovard is the author of \u201cAttention Deficit Democracy\u201d (Palgrave, 2006) and \u201cLost Rights\u201d (St. Martin\u2019s, 1994).<\/p>\n<p>* Thanks to Linas Garsys for the great art work<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter @jimbovard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times, September 23, 2014 AmeriCorps birthday bash baloney A paltry record and statistical illusions cannot be ignored by James Bovard President Obama and former President Bill Clinton were surrounded by a swarm of gray-shirted devotees Sept. 12 as they celebrated the 20th birthday of AmeriCorps on the South Lawn of the White House. 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