PIML 96051004 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 02:26:48 -0400 From: Helen Johnson Organization: E Pluribus Unum To: eplurib@megalinx.net Subject: KILL THE CAREERS BILL KILL THE CAREERS BILL! Please feel free to print, photo-copy, distribute or store this article by any means desired. Arlynn Afton e-mail: jafton@wingsbbs.com or call: 1-616-243-4790 for more information __________________________________________________________________________ Update on the Workforce Development Act Otherwise Known as 'Womb to Tomb' Federal Control of our Children Act There is still no time like the present to contact your senators and representatives in your state capitol and also in the U. S. House and Senate, and let them know that you know that the federal government has no authorization under the Constitution of the United States to be involved in education in any way! The so-called 'Careers Bill', an acronym for Consolidated And Reformed Education, Employment, and Rehabilitation System, which passed the House as H.R.1617, and the Senate Bill 143, or Workforce Development Act which has already passed the Senate, are still in the process of being combined into one bill. Since the House and Senate passed similar but substantially different bills, a conference committee of house and senate members are hammering out the details and compromises to make one horrific bill - - - OR ARE THEY? The conference committee was appointed in October of 1995, but it seems that they have yet to meet to discuss the bill! I know this will come as a big shock to those of you who think that our senators and representatives are actually required to READ a bill before they vote on it, or that their conscience would morally dictate that at the very least people who are supposedly running the country OUGHT TO READ bills before they vote on them - but NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo! When you call, be sure and ask if they have read the bill! Since October of 1995, the senator's and representative's AIDES have been working on the bill compromise. In December they completed a side-by-side sort of analysis of the bills, which is approximately two inches thick. Since that time, the aides have been hashing out the details, and claim that it is very slow going, not much being accomplished, etc. If this follows true-to-form for the sneaky, underhanded bill-passing that has been going on in Washington, we can expect it to suddenly pop out of committee for a vote with about a five-minute warning. For those voting on it, of course. We, the people it affects, probably won't hear about it until after it's all over. There is a ray of hope, however. There have already been several senators and representatives that have changed their minds on the bills, after having been informed by private citizens what the wording of the bills actually creates - namely, a giant federal bureauracy that sets up unidentified requirements that states, schools, businesses, and individuals will be forced to follow. INCLUDING smart cards showing family history, attitude throughout school, certificate of mastery for those who wish to be employed, etc. Kids will be railroaded into a particular career (they call it career 'tracking') from kindergarten. High School kids will be forced to work 10-15 hours per week WITHOUT PAY! Every teen I know will surely go along with that! One teen told me of her concern for the kids self-esteem - those who will be labeled, ostracized and teased at even earlier ages if they are not placed on the 'smart track' or the same track as their friends. Last week, I spoke with Heather Stevens, an aide working on the bill compromise for Representative Thomas Sawyer, and I asked her if there has been any discussion in the committees about the UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of the federal government being involved in education. Dead silence on the other end of the phone line. After a long pause, she replied, "Why no! The federal government already IS involved in education." I then asked her if that made it CONSTITUTIONAL, and she said, "All that I can say is that everyone on the conference committee believes that we should have a federal workforce development act." For some reason our conversation then came to an abrupt end. You should know that NO conference committee bill has ever been stopped before, yet WE MUST STOP THIS BILL FROM BECOMING LAW! Call or write these conference committee members and your own senators and representatives. Tell them that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! While you have their attention, you might also mention that you would like the unconstitutional federal Department of Education abolished right along with the workforce development act. By the way, Senator Abraham of Michigan has introduced a bill to require all bills to state under what constitutional authority they are proposed. While this sounds like a great bill to support, we might ask him under what constitutional authority does he think the Workforce Development Act falls, since he is a co-sponsor of the senate bill. These are the Conference Committee Members, Workforce Development Act: They can be reached by dialing Washington switchboard TOLL-FREE: 1-800-962-3524 Representatives: Senators: William Goodling Nancy Kassebaum Steve Gunderson James Jeffords Randy Cunningham Dan Coats Howard McKeon Judd Gregg Frank Riggs Bill Frist Lindsey Graham Mike DeWine Mark Souder John Ashcroft William Clay Spencer Abraham Pat Williams Slade Gorton Dale Kildee Edward Kennedy Thomas Sawyer Claiborne Pell Gene Green Christopher Dodd Paul Simon Tom Harkin Barbara Mikulski Paul Wellstone KILL THE CAREERS BILL! Please feel free to print, photo-copy, and distribute or store by any means this article. Arlynn Afton e-mail: jafton@wingsbbs.com or call: 1-616-243-4790 for more information -- Helen Johnson - E Pluribus Unum & The Ohio Unorganized Militia PO Box 44404; Columbus, Ohio 43204; 614-444-5840; Fax: 614-444-5865 E Pluribus Unum - http://www.lookup.com/Homepages/65177/home.html * Patriot Information Mailing List * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.