Even Dr. Seuss would want to make a buck...

Call it the economics of hope, the very opposite of the sub-slime greedsters who pocket millions and leave only toxic debt.

In the economics of hope, people take little for themselves and generate actual value for others.

In the economics of hope, every dollar invested by the government generates between $1.50 and $3.90 in direct, measurable benefits.

In the economics of hope, the taxpayer comes out more than $150 billion ahead in a year.

That is without counting all the pluses that are difficult to measure with money, including the deep satisfaction that comes with giving.

To be part of it, to counter the subprime with the sublime, you need only volunteer for public service.

And there will be 175,000 new opportunities to do so thanks to the public service bill President Obama is to sign today.

I really don't think these people understand what they are advocating. It is like they are living in some children's book where all the gardens spout forth lollipops and Skittles®. They choose to ignore what acts initiated banks to secure revenue based on toxic debt. They avoid any thought on how those banks did so based on tax incentives set up by the very person this "volunteer nonsense" is being named after.

My question stands.... "Who ties this journalist's shoes in the morning?"

Increase your word power !!!

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act -- sponsored by Reps. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y, and George Miller, D-Calif. -- was approved by a 321-105 vote and now goes to the Senate.

The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create 175,000 "new service opportunities" under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also create additional "corps" to expand the reach of volunteerism into new sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy conservation.

Main Entry: VOLUNTEER
1vol·un·teer
Function: noun
Etymology: obsolete French voluntaire (now volontaire), from voluntaire, adjective, voluntary, from Old French, from Latin voluntarius
Date: circa 1600

1: a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service: as a: one who enters into military service voluntarily b (1): one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal concern or interest (2): one who receives a conveyance or transfer of property without giving valuable consideration
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Main Entry: INDOCTRINATE
in·doc·tri·nate
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): in·doc·tri·nat·ed; in·doc·tri·nat·ing
Etymology: probably from Middle English endoctrinen, from Anglo-French endoctriner, from en- + doctrine doctrine
Date: 1626

: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
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Main Entry: "GO SCREW"
go.scru
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: probably from the south side of Boston (see "southie")
Date: Just about any time you make eye contact up there.

: An alternate form of "go screw yourself," often used hypothetically. An euphemistic reference to performing an anatomically impossible task (excluding Eastern Bloc shotputters during the cold war circa 1945 through 1989 AD) on one's self. Often highlighted by opportune gesticulation and demonstrative signaling.