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It really meant nothing.... just a catch phrase
Posted on: July 6, 2018 at 12:31:42 CT
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"The way they're using it is to cover up their absolute callous indifference about what's happening in this society," said Robert Bellah, a Berkeley sociologist who is one of the country's most prominent advocates of voluntarism. He said the Administration was using voluntarism as a cover for shirking Government responsibility.
Other critics have been less dismissive, welcoming the promotion of volunteer service but calling the Bush vision a type of "voluntarism lite." They say the President needs to do much more, like providing money for training and transportation, to make voluntarism a more potent force. Critics See Lack of Sacrifice
More important, they argue that he has failed to call for the kind of real sacrifice that such social commitment entails. While President John F. Kennedy told citizens to ask "what you can do for your country," critics of the Bush Presidency say he has, instead, promoted a don't-worry-be-happy future of no new taxes and few obligations.
"If you're really going to change a whole society that has grown selfish and self-centered, you're going to have to fight," said Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Kennedy's niece, who sets up programs for student volunteers in Maryland public schools. "George Bush doesn't want to fight."
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/29/us/thousand-points-as-a-cottage-industry.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Other critics have been less dismissive, welcoming the promotion of volunteer service but calling the Bush vision a type of "voluntarism lite." They say the President needs to do much more, like providing money for training and transportation, to make voluntarism a more potent force. Critics See Lack of Sacrifice
More important, they argue that he has failed to call for the kind of real sacrifice that such social commitment entails. While President John F. Kennedy told citizens to ask "what you can do for your country," critics of the Bush Presidency say he has, instead, promoted a don't-worry-be-happy future of no new taxes and few obligations.
"If you're really going to change a whole society that has grown selfish and self-centered, you're going to have to fight," said Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Kennedy's niece, who sets up programs for student volunteers in Maryland public schools. "George Bush doesn't want to fight."
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/29/us/thousand-points-as-a-cottage-industry.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
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It really meant nothing.... just a catch phrase - Spanky KU - 7/6 12:31:42